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The Grunge Diaspora

August 15, 2024

Listening to a podcast about The Smashing Pumpkins, it came to my attention just how much music Billy...

I Still Own a Lot of CDs

June 13, 2024

If you are a person of a certain age, you bought a lot of CDs. You bought them...

Top Listens 2023

January 1, 2024

All you Spotify listeners out there, I get it. But I’m an Apple Music guy. I like my...

In Defense of: OMC’s “How Bizarre”

July 18, 2021

This one is for Ms. Hipster. “How Bizarre” was a song we derided for years since its 1995...

Top 25 Influential Rock Albums

May 1, 2020

So apparently everyone on Facebook is posting their ten most influential albums day by day. Nobody has challenged...

In Defense Of: Ruben Studdard’s “Sorry 2004”

December 29, 2019

Who doesn’t love the Velvet Teddy Bear? Seriously. This guy is like the most adored, lovable reality series...

Bad Music Take: Smash Mouth’s “All Star” Is Actually a Song About Climate Change

April 18, 2019

Forever known as that annoying-ass song from 1999 that took sports stadiums, sports highlights and, uh, MTV Sports...

Musical Abomination: Avril Lavigne’s “Hello Kitty”

September 10, 2018

Everything that Chad Kroeger touches dies. Witness this abomination from the once and former darling of the pop-punk...

Musical Abomination: Bastille’s Cover of Greenday’s “Basket Case”

August 29, 2017

I’m old enough to remember where I was the first time I heard Green Day’s Dookie: surrounded by piles...

In Defense of: Bush’s “Swallowed”

July 31, 2017

Never has a song done so much with so little. “Swallowed,” in typical 90s fashion, proves that a...

We Listened to Limp Bizkit and We Lost

February 28, 2016

Limp Bizkit somehow plays into my past. I mean we all had to put up with Fred Durst and...

Great Lyrics: ‘Quicksand’ by David Bowie

January 11, 2016

To commemorate the passing of a true musical genius (and I use that word only for like 25%...

2015 Albums of the Year

January 4, 2016

I do this every year. And every year I realize how little music I get to listen to....

In Defense of: Three Times Dope’s “Greatest Man Alive”

September 20, 2015

Sure, to you Three Times Dope was just the hip hop group from the eighties with the guy...

Slow Jams

March 20, 2015

I’ve been searching for years, and I’ve finally found my least favorite kind of music (and mind you,...

Chick Lead Singers

March 2, 2015

I realize, scanning my music collection, that I have very few albums by bands that are fronted by...

Great Lyrics: ‘Album of the Year’

February 21, 2015

Tim Kasher has made a career of leading the emo revolution. Or at least the sensitive male, screaming...

Great Lyrics: ‘Random Rules’

February 21, 2015

The Silver Jews, always sort of living in the shadow of their better known, better represented former agents,...

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