I know this is like a laughably awful and piteous story to tell but I really can’t get the CD player in my car off of repeat. I’ve tried everything from hitting the “Source” button a million times, to hitting the “Mode” button a million times, to turning it on and off, to detaching the … Read more“Believe it or Not, the CD Player in My Car is Stuck on ‘Repeat’”
Score: 4/10 The brand of big, bombastic, fully produced glam-rock to which Iggy Pop seems preternaturally attracted sort of requires an introduction. In interviews, Ig has been effusively derogative of “The ’60s” (in one interview positing one of his main accomplishments as “I helped kill of the sixties”), and has also taken it upon him … Read more“DD Review: Iggy Pop – EVERY LOSER.”
Now, before you scoff at the idea of an entity as lowbrow and mediocre as Taco Bell being the center of our culture, remember that it’s the biggest companies that get the best writers for their commercials. And I’m talking about Wendy’s, and I’m talking about Sonic, and, of course, insurance companies, everybody’s favorite. My … Read more“There’s a Legitimate Brand of ‘Cool’ Being Administered by Taco Bell Commercials These Days”
Someday my ideal record player will arrive at my doorstep, I know it. It will cost under $150, have built-in speakers (I mean I don’t need to broadcast across the Grand Canyon, for Christ’s nuts) and won’t break right after I drop $90 at our local record store on vinyl. Until then, all I have … Read more“10 Vinyl Records I Want for Christmas”
There’s nothing more megalomaniacal than cutting 20 minutes of music on your computer and calling it an “album.” You think, maybe, you’re catering to the short attention span of the world today, and your album is “cute,” and you can transport 25 of them around to shows, instead of 12. Actually, if your music is … Read more“DJ’s Who Only Put out EP’s Are Shooting Themselves in the Foot”
Is it just me or has Will Smith become one of the more esoteric, combustive and intriguing figures in pop culture these days? Now, “fresh,” sure — nobody would deny that. “Cool” — ok, pretty much, maybe until he saw fit to launch that Mormon-esque crusade against the word “turnt” in that one spiel. That … Read more“My Year of Will Smith”
In October or so of 2021 I had a really disillusioning thing happen. I switched from Word Press analytics, which had saying I’d been getting 30,000 page views a day or something like that, to Google, which slotted the number somewhere close to the 20 to 30 mark. My hopes of becoming rich off my … Read more“Dolby’s Top 50 Albums of 2022”
Now, I realize that Radiohead are not primarily a “singles” band — well, is this really true? I mean, think of how classic their music videos were — “Karma Police”; “No Surprises”; “There, There”; etc., all wielding this primordial weirdness that was unforgettable as it was off-putting. They veered toward the bombastic, I don’t think … Read more“A Case for a ‘Best of Radiohead’ Compilation, or Thereabouts”
Oh, how different of a time December of 2019 seems like now! This Beck album came on me out of nowhere (actually making me revamp my “best albums of the decade list” slightly) whilst my present ideal was Wilco’s Ode to Joy and those rocking Eat Fire Spring romps. And, while having proclaimed myself a … Read more“Is Hyperspace Inherently DISPOSABLE?”