I’m starting this new year off with a post about The Dandy Warhols, which strangely seems reasonably appropriate, in a way. They’re one of those ’90s bands that’s still kind of underrated and underexposed, you could say, with Soul Coughing, on the other hand, having recently graduated to the realm of “trendy,” and so no […]
So many summers and winters pass, eventually, on the metal bar, that all of our sins, all the dirtiness, unthinkable hopelessness and unhealthy catharsis get solidified, like cultural sediment lodging itself in our everyday landscape. It’s possible that it’s not an enterprise for the scrupulous. And when I walk into that metal bar, a bright-eyed […]
I started listening to Sticky Fingers again, today. I think I got about 15 seconds into “Brown Sugar”; into Bill Wyman’s thumping, cathartic bassline, into Jagger’s wolverine, untethered yowl. And then it hit me. At some point, during Sticky Fingers, cognitive dissonance sets in. “Brown Sugar” is a song about a romantic escapade with a […]
Radiohead just this month embarked on what is apparently their first international tour in seven years [1], conducting a couple of shows in Spain before heading elsewhere in Europe, for about a dozen more scheduled dates. And I have to say, the TIME OF YEAR seems right, this time, as I could never abide those […]
For every action in the world, there is an equal and opposite reaction, as according to Isaac Newton’s third law of motion. What are the laws of consciousness? And when an atrocity is committed, is it the victory of unconsciousness over consciousness, like darkness over light? It’s control succumbing to loss of control, the consciousness […]
It surprised me immensely, as, I imagine it would a lot of people, to learn that Nirvana did not win “Best New Artist” at the 1992 Grammys [1]. It was “the dude who wrote ‘Walking in Memphis,’” as a lot of people might have referred to him, the epitome of one-hit-wonder, Cleveland-born and New-York-based Marc […]
It seems that, for So Cal alt-pop star Beck, there were strong trade winds blowing him home following his “sea change” [1]. 2005 brought Guero, an immediately more auspicious development from the unconscionably down and somber Sea Change. The lead single was called “Girl”; and, over cheery chords and a funky, delicious beat from The […]