The purpose of this post is to spotlight Eve 6 lead singer Max Collins and the unique contributions he’s made to the alternative rock world. True, in general, Eve 6 is very well received, by the listening public, if not necessarily the critics, and “Inside out” is pretty much everyone but the Scrooge’s favorite song. […]
The message came in from the White House, which, of course, had fully begun living up to Frank Zappa’s label of “The entertainment sector of the military-industrial complex.” Funding was being cut to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the non-profit assigned with funding PBS and NPR. The budget cuts, which came by of a mid-fiscal-year […]
It seems like “Saints” was just doomed from the start, more or less. On one hand, it’s almost impossible to imagine the ruling male radio industry gentry allowing a girl band to skyrocket into the stratosphere of pop stardom the way Nirvana and the Pumpkins did. “Saints” is a good enough song to get that […]
I’m actually not going to analyze “Crazy”; the chart-topping 2006 radio hit from Gnarls Barkley, on a musical level, in this post. If I were, gee, that would be a challenge, since it’s not every day you come across a song that lacks even a single phrasing unorthodoxy or solitary creative flare, in terms of […]
I’d like to preface this post by voicing adamant praise of the 2020 album Inlet by mid-’90s Champaign, Ill. alt-rockers Hum. I loved what they did with maintaining their boisterous, distorted grunge sound and validating it with some stretching out of the song lengths into the seven/eight minute territory. In addition, Matt Talbott’s seemed as […]
I don’t think there’s any question: no band is selling more shirts these days than Nirvana. Now, I’m not going to attempt to explain this phenomenon, least of all to imply that bands should expect 33-year delays, or time-releases, for gluts in their merch sales. Suffice it to say that a litany of people are […]
You are dressed in a shirt with the font of the Nirvana smiley-face logo. The writing on the shirt, however, reads “Pac-Man.” Apparently, you found this shirt at Spencer’s, and paid about $25 for it, because you identified with the subversive message implicit in the mocking of Nirvana’s apparrel. You just never GOT Nirvana. They […]
I can’t see the ’90s but I can HEAR them. Sure, they’re long-gone. I know. Nobody says “Pimpin’ ain’t easy” these days, much to the relief of all of us. We know longer must endure pervy, delusional commentary from Adam Corolla or tongue-in-cheek sports analysis from quirky Sports Center anchors. But I can FEEL the […]
Just as bands can be guilty of falling into a “style over substance” mindset administrative to their creative outputs, such can critics, as well, overemphasize a band’s “style” as a potential pitfall, and ignore emotional authenticity, poesy of lyrics, brilliance in song structuring, and, of course, good ol’ fashioned undeniable energy. Now, granted, the Chili […]