Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Cosmic Suicide and the Human Response

DISCLAIMER: I am normally very strongly of the opinion that songs are not necessarily indicative of the songwriter’s mental state. Art can be art without being autobiographical. Nobody assumes that Mickey Rourke is actually a struggling wrestler, thus, nobody should assume that someone who writes a crushingly sad song is actually crushingly sad. “This life

Pop Music For the Sake of Pop Music

Okay. I’ll admit. I have a bit of a problem. It happens the same way every time. I read about an album I think I’ll dig. I buy it. Before I know it, I’m face down in a dusty record bin looking for an obscure, universally panned late-period Beach Boys record on CD. I tend

NXNE 2010: Something About A Horse and His Boy

London’s A Horse and His Boy are a band that I first caught wind of while attending the CD release show of last month’s cover band, Krupke. They were the opening band on that bill and I managed to catch some of their set, though for reasons which require far more explanation than I am

NXNE 2010: A Lo-Fi Journey

When the guitars first appear at the beginning of Guided by Voices’ Bee Thousand, they sound like a collection of car engines struggling to get started. It’s an alarming sound, albeit a perversely inviting one. Bee Thousand was rec cialis for sale orded almost entirely on four-track tape recorders in garages in suburban Ohio. The

The Golden Stretch of Highway and the Infinite Road

Photos by Dave Hurlow This is what happens, almost every morning during this three and a half week period: I wake up and can’t even decide whether or not I fell asleep. It’s still dark out and I squirm out of my sleeping bag. It’s probably cold, I curse and hate myself a little bit.

Hell Freezes Over

The Eagles’ Hell Freezes Over tour is the epitome of the reunion gimmick – an overwrought spectacle of a wildly over-the-hill band content parodying themselves into pop culture oblivion. But we can’t really fault the Eagles, can we? By the end of the 1970s the Eagles were probably the biggest band in the universe. It’s

That’s Some Pretty Heavy Music Journalism (Part 5): Message

When getting to know someone new I always try to get to know the why behind their personal tastes: music, film, literature, fashion, whatever. The reasons between our cultural and artistic preferences illustrate important parts of our identity construction. In short, they’re reeling in our years, ringing in our ears, whether we know it or