This is just weird. Other ways for Prince to release his music in this new age of non-digital communication: Call people at their homes (no cell phones please!) and play the album for them over the phone Inside the cereal box Dove choir Borrow Spinal Tap’s amps Change your name to the lyrics to your […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Always exciting to have a year with new albums from both Spoon and The New Pornographers (it happened in 2007 and2005). Throw in the fact that there is a new Superchunk album due in the fall and this is the most exciting music year for me in ages. So what do we get from Spoon’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can’t really review the new Superchunk 7-inch Digging for Something b/w February Punk as I do not have it. I don’t do vinyl. Don’t lynch me. I downloaded the free Digging for Something mp3, which means I have half of the musical contents of the album. It is upbeat and poppy, in a similar […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I came across the band The Rural Alberta Advantage last year thanks to Exclaim magazine. After listening/watching a few things online I immediately bought their album, Hometowns. I have not listened to an album so dripping with passion and emotion in ages and the energy of their live performance (as seen online, at least) is incomparable. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I turn the magnifying glass inwards and address my qualifications as a music reviewer.
I will explain it to them in more detail and they will ask Why? I will try to explain why and they will start to lose interest and wander away and I will snap at them and demand their attention. Then I will tell them about this day (well, yesterday, actually). The day I made […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The ultimate Superchunk fan creates the ultimate singles collection, named The Singles’ Singles.
The reason this is a great album is Same But Different. The most engaging artists always have a unique, identifiable sounds such that you can pick them out immediately. But that does not mean that every song and album sound the same. To the contrary, the best bands stretch their musical muscle from album to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wasn’t going to post about this, but I have to. Too many funny things going on with the new video from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. If you read the not-so-brief history of a punk guy post from Ted Leo on Friday in which he prepares the world for his majorly massive career shift […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I stumbled across a text file in one of my backups with some fun stuff in it. I used to maintain a web site in the 90′s dedicated to random things about music and it had a page of fun and interesting (according to me) snippets from various band interviews. I wish I had that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
