So you think you’re a Camera Obscura fan… well there are some things you need to know about that, sonny boy. So you think you’ve lost all taste for aggression and strife. Hell, you’re over 21 now, you saw what aggression and strife did by your own country to a secular country across the sea … Read more“Lightning in a Fast World”
Led Zeppelin is one of those bands that people will go out of their way to say they DON’T like. It’s almost like disliking them entitles you to some special club of superiority. I love Led Zeppelin, but here are two overrated albums: III and Physical Graffiti. Presence comes right after the bloated Physical Graffiti, … Read more“Presence: Led Zeppelin’s Underrated Return to Form”
The word “Heraldo” is always fun to hear, because it almost always refers to the early ’90’s, or happens on an album that was made in the early ’90’s, like 1991’s I Wish My Brother George Was Here by Del the Funkee Homosapien, also sometimes known as Del the Funky Homosapien, and/or Deltron Zero, a … Read more“Crank in a Capsule: I Wish My Brother George Was Here.”
Lou Barlow is kicked out of Dinosaur Jr. behind is back, a band which proceeds without him having told him they were calling it quits. All Barlow does to show strength of resolve is to not only form a wildly efficacious Sebadoh, but actually shout out to the ones that let him go, championing the … Read more“Lou Barlow: Bored and Disconnected as Ever”
I met Jeanne at freshman orientation. Corny. I get it. Belmont University, not that you asked. We’d made it to our senior years. It was getting on toward the middle of March, the snow had all melted from our one February mini-blizzard. Still, it’s not like it was spring or anything. Me and Jeanne were … Read more“At Morehead State”
This was good to see yesterday — Boamani Jones, one of the newer additions to the best show on television I’ve seen, ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” discussing Vince Young. Apparently the ex-NFL quarterback worked out with his alma mater, Texas, at a skills showcase/televised practice sort of deal. I can’t remember exactly what they called … Read more“Street Knowledge Displayed on TV”
A lot of life is albumen This is there As a reference for comparing yourself to other people Since life is a competition, At least today in our country, Our sameness is eschewed, And if life is painful It’s because Discovery is painful, As is truth, and As would it be in death
5 Ellie Goulding – “Lights” Summoning Florence + the Machine a little bit, but somehow less gaudy, Goulding canaries in with gemstone femininity on this one, and it makes for something fairly beautiful. Bubbling synths give the song a dance feel, but the producer clearly took pains to go for a garage-rock snare. I’m guessing … Read more“Top 5 Radio Pop Singles of 2012”
The Starlight Mints want to make you uneasy. I doubt they’d make any bones about that. Piling chord upon chord at the introduction of “Coffins ‘r’ Us,” which is nervous-chuckle-inducing enough, given the title, but spooky nonetheless even with just hearing the song as something anonymous, they rage into uncharted territories of the mind’s threshold … Read more“Middle of Nowhere, Center of Bounce”
It looks like it’s an album we can fight over, To hurl glasses from across the bar At someone with A different favorite song from us, Like boys, men, The light straddling The ceiling is five sixths of the width’s end of the mind, She will be by and by, As I flagrantly refresh the … Read more“A Hopefully Destructive Gush”