Ph-ph-ph-ph phases!

Sometimes I envy the genre specific music fan; those people who are so enamored with a particular style of music that all others are ignored totally. It must be really easy for them… Read More →

Grand Theft Audio

The default position of many an aging rock aficionado is to decry “PLAGIARISM!!” at the top of their lungs whenever some new band dares to pull an influence or two from the R&R… Read More →

Mustapha!

From Pitchfork: “Fucking Queen. For all their reported bombast, pomp, and tendency to overshoot and double-slaughter any semblances of good taste, everything you’ve heard about them is still true. They’re one of the… Read More →

A Little Back And Forth

As much as I harp on Pitchfork-the pomposity, the ‘we know better than you’ writing style, etc-, I have to admit they have their own style, an individual voice in the sea of… Read More →

You Can’t Choose Your Times

My 500th Post! Although I really shouldn’t consider this a post as I’m merely stealin’ and linkin’. Whatever. Yea me! Here’s an excerpt from a particularly poignant and entertaining read, from the Poptimist… Read More →

“If you will suck my soul, I will lick your funky emotions.”

More psychedelic than Hendrix, more rifftastic than Zeppelin, more funky than Brown…ok, maybe more on a par with Brown…more acid fried than the Grateful Dead on their best day. This be Funkadelic, the… Read More →

Britpop

I got caught up in the whole Britpop ‘movement’ of the mid ‘90’s, I can admit that now. And while said ‘movement’ produced some fine bands and some classic albums, in hindsight it… Read More →

A Cretin’s Guide to the Cure

They’ve gone from weeping ‘sensitive types’ to goth ‘sensitive types’ to Dark Lord ‘sensitive types’ to poppy ‘sensitive types’ to who gives a damn anymore ‘types’ in the space of 33 years. Seriously,… Read More →

Let’s Talk About Crap, Bay-Bee!

Let’s talk about shitty music for a moment. It seems to me that the last 10 years or so has produced some of the shittiest…no, THE shittiest music ever. I’ve only been around… Read More →

The Best Punk Albums

What people don’t realize about punk is that it’s not all about righteous anger and the inability to play one’s instruments. There’s virtuosity there, intelligence and, perhaps most importantly, humor in the best… Read More →