Growing up here in South Bend, Indiana, where today there are 14 and a half violent crimes per 1,000 residents per year, I would come across certain people who were especially hard to please, when it came to music. The black people around here often term Wu-Tang “white people sh**” (especially ironic as one of … Read more“Third Eye Blind: AUDITED.”
It’s puzzling to me that in pretty much all of the Reddit discussions on “Snow (Hey Oh),” a hit single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2006 album Stadium Arcadium, nobody really talked about the lyrics at all. They would tend to extol the guitar riff as if it were the second coming of Led … Read more“A Bit on ‘Snow (Hey Oh)’ and Its Ironic Endorsement of Narcissism”
If it were going to happen at all, it would have happened by now. I’ve heard reams and reams, droves and droves of cocksure rhetoric on Neil Peart. I’ve heard this ex-junkie I used to work with go “Fu** John Bonham” and then put on Sublime after we’d just had Sublime on the last night. … Read more“Second-Favorite Drummer of All Time? I’ve Got a Somewhat Eccentric Pick”
Supertramp is one of those bands that seems so singles-oriented that you’re tempted to ask, What kind of band ARE they? I mean, even Electric Light Orchestra, for all their spotlight-leaning proclivity for radio drama, have a slight history in hard rock, or at least in the impetus for centering things on guitar which would … Read more“Dolby’s Rupees: Supertramp – ‘Take the Long Way Home’”
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.”