Top 25 British Invasion Albums (16-20)
on February 1, 2011
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Unabomber continues his countdown of the top 25 British Invasion albums with selections 16-20.
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Smith Westerns: Young Guns
on January 31, 2011
Chicago quartet The Smith Westerns are a rag-tag band of youngsters who have their gimmick and an amazing record to back themselves up. Dye It Blonde is remarkably consistent, earwormingly catchy and filled with enough retro-fitted parts to seem bone-shakingly cool and technically proficient at the same time.
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Top 25 British Invasion Albums (21-25)
on January 27, 2011
How could a country with a population one-sixth the size of America have so many amazing bands? The British Invasion was the most important period in the history of rock ‘n’ roll. It eclipsed everything it preceded and spawned everything that succeeded it.
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Asher Roth, Anything But Raw
on January 27, 2011
Asher Roth is the next logical step in the defanging of hip-hop, not because he’s white, but because he’s making music for boring upper-class listeners.
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Captain Squeegee Spans Centuries
on January 27, 2011
Captain Squeegee sets a goal to urge its audience to see the world more clearly.
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Red House Painters Still Cornerstone of Originality
on January 26, 2011
From album opener “Grace Cathedral Park,” through the epic “Katy Song” and sobering “New Jersey,” the songs of Red House Painters deal with moving on, being left behind and sorting through the gray areas of life as they happen.
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The Most Important Day In Rock History
on January 25, 2011
The 50th anniversary of the most important day in rock ‘n’ roll history — and no one noticed!
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LP: Loosely Poignant
on January 24, 2011
What happens when you cross a Ra Ra Riot and a Vampire Weekend?
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They Couldn’t Even Outlive Keith Richards
on January 18, 2011
Now that 2010 has passed it’s only fitting that we turn from the battle at hand to assess our casualties.
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Hidden Gems of 2010
on January 14, 2011
There is simply too much good music out there. Even with the accessibility of the Internet, several great albums get neglected or disregarded outside their certain circle. So, in hopes of reaching a larger audience, here are eleven “hidden gems” from the past year (listed in alphabetical order): Buke and Gass – Riposte The quirky […]
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A Soundtrack Seldom Heard for a Movie Never Seen
on January 8, 2011
Sonically it serves as a bridge from their youthful psychedelic impulses of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the mature blues-rock of the Dark Side. However, Obscured By Clouds is superior to the former: It exhibits evolution from their ’60s playfulness and preferable to the latter in that it never dissolves into histrionic self-importance.
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Michael Jackson: The Shelf-Life of the Muse
on January 6, 2011
In no other area of the arts is the creativity of its practitioners so fleeting as of those who create music. Writers, visual artists, filmmakers, photographers all watch their skills diminish within their lifetimes, but seldom become parodies of themselves.
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