When I was relatively young and primarily into punk music, I stumbled into the record shop and threw $18 down on the counter for the most recent Basement Jaxx album. “Rooty“.
I had heard “Where’s Your Head At“, and dug a lot. I thought perhaps this would be a good opportunity to spread out from my [...]
I’ve been on a regional music quest. As much as I love all the heavy hitters, I was jonesing for something more grassroots.
Being in Cleveland, I decided regional music from this locale would be best, as perhaps if I fell in love I could wander out and enjoy.
I stumbled across three bands that I [...]
Stumping for bands is second nature I believe for any music lover. We all have our favorites, and we make damn sure that everybody else knows just how much we like them. Regrettably, stumping for local bands tends to be a more cumbersome endeavor…
People rarely know of the group being discussed. Concerts are [...]
Frequently I find music that isn’t particularly well known. This leaves me having to obsess all by my lonesome until the fateful day that I run into someone else who knows of this music. I then get super excited, freak out a little bit, and surely scare them far enough away that I’m back to [...]
I used to DJ for my university’s radio station. While I had consistently bad time slots (think 3-5AM) and consistently crazy callers (threatening to kill me, or asking me to describe my body to them), I had a blast.
Why you ask?
WRUW has an amazing, amazing record library. Over 100,000 CD’s. At least twice that in [...]
So if it hasn’t been made perfectly clear: I’m generally an electronica slut. A man-slut, but a slut nonetheless. I just can’t get enough of the twitchy, tweaky, and yet soothing tones that manage to be produced and put into rhythm. However, even as I drool over something a synthesizer vomited up, I [...]
It seems lately that I’ve been filling in the gaps. Bands or musicians who tickled me pink in the past, well, I felt the need to go make sure I had everything they had to offer.
This may have not been the best of ideas.
The most recent gap filled is in the catalog of Jenny Lewis.
My [...]
I have a fairly scattered music collection that I’ve been trying over the years to condense with limited success. Several years ago, I purchased Fischerspooner’s #1 album for the lone song “Emerge,” and after playing that single repeatedly for days I somehow managed to lose the physical CD in the boxes of discs that languish [...]
It’s hard to find a band that can turn music into the audio equivalent of velvet. Decadent, rich, luxurious and pleasing to the ear, Dragonette – the part-Canadian/part-British electro-pop band – manages to not only produce some of the most captivating sounds I’ve ever heard but also throw in a half naked teenage trollop for [...]
I’ve been a fan of Our Lady Peace since I was in 9th grade. Spiritual Machines had just come out, and to my angsty teenage mind their new single “Life” seemed like the most poignant song in the history of mankind.
I then went out and bought every single album in their catalog. Bought. Legitimately bought. [...]
