“Notable Songs from the 2000s Indie Boom That Have Appeared in Commercials”
I’m choosing to handle this topic today and to, actually, put somewhat of a positive spin on it. A couple reasons surface for why I’m doing this. One is that this sort of notoriety gives indie rock some much-needed positive acclaim, perhaps working toward a shedding of its alleged veneer of stiff-necked, academic pretentiousness, or […]
“Little Petey”
We’d all gone into the house. Little Petey stayed behind, sitting in the car. He sometimes did that so I didn’t think anything of it. Five o’ clock rolled around, then, and Little Petey was still sitting in the car. Actually he had the windows up and the car didn’t have air conditioning, which kind […]
“Pixies Index”
Chapter 1: What are Pixies? Mom, what’s a Pixie? Well, son, ya see, it’s a member of the best da** band on the planet in the late ’80s, about one-tenth as preachy and ham-handed as R.E.M. and one-twentieth as overlong as U2, with every bit the songwriting moxie of each. And, I mean, they started […]
“College Football Playlist”
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“The Original Apple ‘Focus’ Commerical Will Go down as a Television Achievement”
Commercials are 30-second pieces of film. Many times, today, they are in my opinion even more entertaining and well-done than TV shows. Also, ironically, it seems like it’s the insurance industry, theoretically the blandest and most formal sector of society, that tends to foster the best ad campaigns. Lots of commercials running nowadays are decently […]
“Fu** Green Day’s Acid Trip, I Wanna Go Home”
Upon the release of Modest Mouse’s last album, The Golden Casket, I gave it a pretty favorable review on this site. I did, however, take somewhat of an exception to the opening, “Fu** Your Acid Trip.” The reasons for my compunction surrounding this particular track, as it were, weren’t necessarily based on any flaw in […]
“Calibrating the Impact of Lee Ronaldo on Rock”
There’s a great quote on Sonic Youth in Everett True’s Nirvana: the Biography — something uttered by Sub Pop co-founder Bruce Pavitt, if I’m not mistaken. The line was something along the lines of if Sonic Youth had just issued Sister (1987) and Daydream Nation (1988), they’d be considered one of the best rock bands […]
“Hall of Fame: Class of 2020 (Live) — Umphrey’s McGee Has Still Got it”
Strongly predicated on their live performances, venerable Chicago jam band Umphrey’s McGee has been making a pretty interesting practice since 2011. Each year, they compile the best of their concert run-throughs of that entire year, and combine them onto one live album, known respectively as the “Hall of Fame” compilation. The inaugural one, Hall of […]