Dolby Disaster

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.”

Just on Facebook earlier I saw some story about a radio DJ voicing various complaints about hip-hop and hypothesizing that the genre would reach a “downfall” in the next 10 years. And I made a comment on the post inquiring as to whether the FCC would completely abolish the genre altogether. What would cause people … Read more“I’d Just Like to Take This Random Opportunity to State That I Still Really Like Indie Rock”

Comfort’s made a mess, all along the fault, ripe enough to rain and once again the minds of the Califone arbiters race to goop in the waning harvest moon. It finally hits me to make a playlist of Wilco and Califone, their sort of sister group and fellow Chicago cohort, finding my Wilco selections to … Read more“It’s Spooky in Here”