Seventeen years old, a junior at an all-boys Jesuit high school, and breaking away from a teenage goth phase and the social stigmas associated with black trenchcoats in Southern California. That was where I was when I first heard Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine. As for where I was physically, it was the room above a garage [...]
Joy Division – Plus Minus (+ -)
6 December 2010 by 1 Comment
Sleevage has a new post about the brand new box set just released of Joy Division’s singles, re-released with original artwork. One of the most interesting parts of the JD legend is the amount of musical influence the band managed to cover in such a minuscule window of time (1976-1980) and the range in which [...]
N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton
2 December 2010 by Leave a Comment
Before Dr. Dre was pushing Dr. Pepper and hawking headphones at Best Buy, before Ice Cube was making movies for tweens, N.W.A. were the most unabashedly angry, violent, sexist, and hedonistic artists on the planet. Their contemporaries Ice T and Public Enemy were proving rap’s legitimacy to the world by making social commentary and provoking [...]
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