Page McConnell, keyboardist and vocalist committee constituent of the jam band Phish, hit us with his first solo album this year, Maybe We’re the Visitors. Now, up until this point, I’d associated McConnell with light-hearted, jazzy rock excursions like “Cars Trucks Buses,” a keyboard-jolted jam of which he’s listed as the primary songwriter. Even under […]
Now, being a Grateful Dead audiophile is a full-time job, and one I’m hardly equipped to take on right now, obviously. In fact, I seem to remember hearing about a podcast featuring former Pitchfork critic Rob Mitchum and some other dude just getting on and talking about Dead bootlegs for an hour every week (a […]
All I remember about Oasis from when I was really young was everybody I knew hating them and thinking they sucked, even my Dad. Granted, his reasoning toward this conclusion, as I’m sure pretty much everybody else’s of that disposition, was that they were “arrogant,” and had really nothing to do with the music. The […]
Who is the elder statesman for perfecting the definition of ska? It can’t be critics because we take ourselves too seriously. It can’t be musicians because… well, we just like thinking we’re better than them. You know who it would be? It would be some dude or chick on The Real World, an unassuming occupier […]
My first exposure to MOTH was in 2002, seeing them perform their new single “I See Sound” on what I think must have been The Late Show with David Letterman. It was Weezer-lite all the way, but in a good way, notable within this epoch for its lack of Bloodhound Gang gimmick and stupid sonic […]
When even the Grateful Dead start professing the need to sober up and start taking care of their bodies, you know there’s been a widespread movement toward straightness. With this being said, I wasn’t alive back in the ’70s, but from the general rhetoric I come across, it seems like you’d be hard pressed to […]
I think I was looking through that big book of old Creem excerpts one time and I saw this one article where this dude referred to the Boston Red Sox as “baseball’s answer to the Denver Broncos.” He was joking, of course, and I think toward, not completely unjustly, throwing shade at this ill-fated, arbitrary […]
Now, just to explicate what I’m talking about here, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, the 10th studio album by Blitzen Trapper, came out in September 2020, almost a year before I’m writing this. So the “dark times” aspect I’m referring to pertains specifically to the shutdown, which was in its absolute throes then, obviously, and of […]