January 2011
18 posts
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I went to a record fair with a measly 20 pounds in...
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“White Noise” immediately sets the...
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In relation to my previous post, here’s the...
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Interview with John Darnielle About All Eternals... →
To me, the way that you keep making music interesting is to not just do what you do. Some old school fans wish I was still yelling at people for the entire evening but, if I were to do that, everyone would lose interest, especially me.
This is such a hard thing for me to admit to being true. Bands that are willing to constantly try to do different things are great and courageous, and yada...
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The Problem With Music by Steve Albini →
In case you haven’t read this yet, and now that I’ve started a little splurt on American Hardcore, here’s Albini’s take on the music industry - mainly the large corporate music industry. Major label hatery and stuff. Even if you don’t agree with it, it’s a good read, and should give you some food for thought.
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American Hardcore →
I’ve been meaning to do quite an extensive series of posts about the American underground scene in the 80s because it’s quite easily and consistently one of my favorite eras in music history. This link is a collection of about 911 songs thrown together by the guy who wrote American Hardcore, and is pretty much awesome.
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The splash of the steamboat wheels and the slow...
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Female Fronted Heavy Metal 1976 - 1989 →
A one-post blog with a 12 cd download package courtesy of John Darnielle’s twitter.
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Starfucker - Reptilians
Starfucker’s Jupiter blew my electro-pop mind when it was released in 2009. The music encapsulates everything that the genre was to me then, stupendously poppy and beautifully danceable. It was more dance heavy and less cute than Phoenix’ Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and more sophisticated and elaborate than Matt & Kim’s simple dance-punk. “Dance Face 2000” remains...
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