Score: 8/10 Welcome to the “age of information” wherein my favorite band releases a new album and I get wind of it only 30 days later. I guess it’s a good thing that every three months or so in my Bandcamp perusals I make a little “Check Fire Note” marking next to all the genre … Read more“DD Review: Wilco – Cousin.”
10 Blur – “Barbaric” On “Barbaric,” Britpop heavy-hitters Blur go in a pretty typical directions for rock bands nearing the ends of their careers, which would be electronic, or at least the drum machine territory. A beautifully resigned and catchy chorus then paints the perfect disaffected picture of this malady: “I have lost the feeling … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks July – Sep. 2023”
Score: 8/10 American electro-pop diva Glasser (originally born in Boston) holds a special place in my heart as being an artist I discovered on CD at our local library, circa 2010. This drove includes the auspicious likes, as it were, of White Rabbits, Starlight Mints, White Denim and probably a bunch of other squirrel-ly indie … Read more“DD Review: Glasser – Crux.”
25 “Sand” (Farmhouse) 24 “Horn” (Rift) 23 “Julius” (Hoist) 22 “Dogs Stole Things” (Hampton Comes Alive) 21 “Maze” (Rift) 20 “Billy Breathes” (Billy Breathes) 19 “Water in the Sky” (The Story of the Ghost) 18 “Wolfman’s Brother” (Hoist) 17 “Sparkle” (Rift) 16 “Bouncing around the Room” (A Live One) 15 “Cavern” (Hampton Comes Alive) 14 … Read more“Dolby’s Phish Power Rankings — Autumn 2023”
25 “The Ocean” 24 “The Lemon Song” 23 “When the Levee Breaks” 22 “Four Sticks” 21 “Hats off to (Roy) Harper” 20 “Hots on for Nowhere” 19 “Nobody’s Fault but Mine” 18 “That’s the Way” 17 “The Rover” 16 “The Song Remains the Same” 15 “Gallows Poll” 14 “Poor Tom” 13 “The Battle of Evermore” … Read more“Dolby’s Zeppelin Power Rankings — Top 25 Autumn 2023”
The “Nirvana Theory” I’m referring to here applies to a kind of interesting phenomenon which boils down, perhaps exclusively in art, to a “necessary element of impossibility,” as in an a priori impossibility, a problem rendered by preconceived theory and thinking. For Nirvana, of course, the “necessary impossibility” would be the delicate art of blending … Read more“Applying Nirvana Theory to the Meat Puppets’ Too High to Die.”