I’ve been asked the question: “Who is your target audience?” As a blogger I feel like this is a trick question – who am I not writing for? Writing online has its downfalls, but one of those is not a pigeonholed audience. Speaking as a reader of many different kinds of blogs, I find it [...]
Bloodhound Gang – Hooray for…
27 October 2010 by Leave a Comment
(This post was written by my good friend and electrical engineer extrordinaire Randall Ng. Thanks Randall! -ed) (Keeping in theme with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month) Don’t deny it, you remember the catchy phrase “You and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals so let’s do it like to do on the Discovery Channel!” Jovial music [...]
Guest Post at Fleur-de-Violette
24 October 2010 by Leave a Comment
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Art vs. Content
21 October 2010 by 1 Comment
I just found this interesting article at MBV.com that gives a pretty good argument in favor of the new wave of major record labels. Here’s an excerpt: Anxiety about this model seems to be bubbling up — and understandably so. Yes, it’s great that we are no longer holding musicians to untenable and economically disastrous [...]
Bonnie Tyler – Faster Than…
20 October 2010 by Leave a Comment
I know what you’re thinking. It’s impossible not to think it – it’s right there in her teased-out hair, her lack of a neck, the blue lightsaber in one ear and out the other. And the name – oh God, the name. But this album… actually isn’t that bad. No, really. Ok, it has its [...]
Blue Note Records
17 October 2010 by 3 Comments
Asking someone what the most iconic album cover is gets a ton of different responses. What you hear is based on generation/style/politics/shock value/etc: Nevermind, Dark Side of the Moon, Sticky Fingers, Never Mind the Bollocks, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and so on. Credit should be given where it’s [...]
Women – Public Strain
12 October 2010 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes the weirder your influences are, the better off your art is. Take the newest full length from Women, Public Strain – the first time I put it on (a few days ago) it confused me endlessly. The first track, drumless and squawking, sounded like the introduction to a band who wore their influences like [...]
Jens Lekman – Oh You’re So…
7 October 2010 by 2 Comments
A man walks into a bar, orders a beer and a bowl of peanuts, but the bar turns into a spaceship, and the bartender gives him a haircut… … I can’t remember the end of that joke. This record isn’t so much a selection of the artist’s songs as it is a collection of his [...]
Enya – A Day Without Rain
5 October 2010 by 1 Comment
(Note: You asked for something different. You can only blame yourself now…) I remember the first day of my freshman year of high school at Loyola in LA. First Period. Algebra 1. My teacher was Mr. Walter, a 7ft. rectangle of a man whose other duty was coaching JV baseball. Walter and his 2 brothers [...]
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