When it came to music I wasn’t exactly a late bloomer, but I did follow a strange path. As a small child I listened almost exclusively to classical, film scores, soundtracks1, and musicals. My main exposure to pop music was what I absorbed through osmosis by way of my parents. This…
There is a scene in Leon the Professional where Gary Oldman, in a piece of brilliant scenery chewing, demands that his henchmen bring everyone to help fight Leon. When the henchman asks what he means by everyone, Oldman contorts his face and releases a primal scream of “EVERYONE!” He…
For Record Store Day’s Black Friday they put out a limited edition release of not so well known rockabilly hits called Pop The Clutch. I had to work, so I couldn’t make it to my favorite LRS Obsessions but lucky for me the MND was kind enough to pick it up.…
I was eight or nine when a local folk group came to my school to perform. After I got home my mom asked how the show was and in my first effort at a review, I said that they sang nice but they did the songs wrong. After all I…
With The Kills putting out a new album, I figured it was time to cover this rather duo, the British guitarist Jamie Hince and American vocalist Alison Mosshart, who somehow make music that sounds totally new and old at the same time. They manage to grab riffs that feel familiar…
I listened to Garbage’s new album many times getting ready to write my review and it was with a heavy heart that I just couldn’t give it the same kind of raves that I had always felt for their previous albums. In the past the albums Shirley Manson, Duke Erikson,…
It was October 24, 1981 and I was yelling into the payphone of a bar that was basically a concrete bunker. I had just spent two hours in front the stage watching the amazing show of my life up to that point. George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers had just…
Trigger warning for discussion of abuse and sexual assault. Life is just a party, and parties weren’t meant to last Let me start by saying that I can’t believe I’m writing this, and let me therefore apologize for my inevitable rambling. Any of you who know me know about my…
I’ve said before that one of my favorite types of music is the chimera, where you take two music styles, usually totally alien to each other, jam them together and make something magical (or really annoying depending on how much of a purest you are). A few examples…
When you climb to the top of the mountain Look out over the sea Think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be Then you jump back down to the rooftops Look out over the town Think about all of the strange things circulating round It ain’t easy,…
If you’ve seen Airheads you know that’s a trick question. If you haven’t, I’ll let you go look it up. Back in the later days of LimeWire and AudioGalaxy folks would name songs so that they might slip past the scanners that would pull any copyrighted songs. There were the…
I have a theory that one of the most important events in modern music history happened in 1963. The location was Cambria Heights in Queens, New York and the event was the formation of The Shangri-Las. For those of you who are about to stop reading having decided…
