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For whatever reason, Eat a Peach is the iconic Allman Brothers studio album, A Decade of Hits 1969-1979 and At Filmore East probably taking more clout than any, but Idlewild South, which predates Peach, certainly boasts a proud palette. “Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’” seems like the kind of song that could have only come from … Read more“‘Inspiration’ and its Overrated Aspects in Today’s Culture: The GEICO Commercial with ‘Midnight Rider’”

I saw two things last night that chafed my morale to a slight extent. One, a woman in Michigan was fired from her job for wearing her Halloween costume, which was of a Boston Marathon bombing victim. Two, Windows came out with this Windows Phone commercial attempting to imbue that such technology possesses the power … Read more“A Left Liberal Tendering of Protected Free Speech by Responsible Bureaucracy”

[Set in northern Indiana, amidst a group of boys who are too old to listen to Led Zeppelin. Max is visiting his friend Chad’s house, which is also Chad’s mom’s house.] [Chad]: Ugh, I can’t decide if I want to go to this play later or not. [Max]: What play? [Chad]: Frankenstein. I wish there … Read more“Unwatchable driveL: A One-Act Play”

Loving a married woman is hell. You look into her eyes, the cup is there, but she’s falling, into her own life, which erects itself in front of you, in spite. You search for the terms on which to talk to her, seeing, finding beauty, comfort and thrill, but no one will be on your … Read more“With Flowers”

There’s this band called Deerhunter out there, you probably own all their stuff. I’m still proud to say that I skipped your set at the ’09 Lollapalooza in order to see them. Bradford Cox was hilarious. Between belting out classic fuzz songs in the pop contour, he’d say things in a nasal, andante, emphatic voice, … Read more“Lou,”

I still remember this commercial airing when I was young, where there was this guy from a mutual fund group or something, saying, “It takes a lot to rattle us.” The guy was having something darts thrown right by his head, I think. This thing had an effect on me, and I remember, at my … Read more“Blitzen Trapper: Uh… The New Album is American Goldwing.”

I tried to listen to the Men’s album from 2012 Open Your Heart, but it’s a topheavy, guitar-heavy peal of platitudinous Sonic Youth-siphoning, proving that you can be overly earnest in punk, too. I tried to read cokemachineglow.com’s review of it, but the guy uses profanity in post-semi-colon clauses, and then says, “Let’s back up … Read more“Open Your Heart as Evidence of Music Criticism’s Like Negligence of LP Form”

I used to be one of those pathetic douche bags who just liked to disagree with people, and when this guy at work said he liked Beck overall, his whole catalogue, I said I only liked his old stuff. Something attracted me back to The Information, and I now find it better than Odelay. It’s … Read more“Beck in 2013: Breaking Down the Door of ‘Postmodern Rock’ Didactic, Sifting Through ‘Fans’”

Sometimes what you hear is the curse, When you know that below everything Is a rudiment, Is the way things work, The way things stand, which doesn’t change Through the eons bordering the sun . You might stand up and project this way, But someone else might, too And so you meet eye saws, Fornicating, … Read more“Under Spotlights”

The thing about a greatest hits collection is that it’s structurally similar to a live show. Granted, the Gorillaz one is called a “Singles Collection,” but you might say that with this band we’re not exactly talking about Califone, let alone the Mahavishnu Orchestra or Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Gorillaz’ m.o. is to be … Read more“A Nod for Gorillaz and Greatest Hits Collections”