January 2011
8 posts
Top Ten of Aught-Ten: 7. Black Francis-...
The man of a thousand names (actually just three) is always busy. Charles Thompson, AKA Frank Black, AKA Black Francis, has been reinventing the traditions of what rock music can be since the mid 1980’s, when The Pixies broke out into the world and single-handedly invented the sound of 90’s alternative rock. I don’t need to spend a whole paragraph talking about The Pixies...
“My baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster; two great big humps and then I’m...”
– “Worm Tamer”- Grinderman
Top Ten of Aught-Ten: 8. The Walkmen-Lisbon
Many great scholars have theorized that “rock ‘n roll will never die”. At least not completely. Most would argue that the theatrics and spectacle of rock music has stayed the same, if not gotten greater. Others say that it’s because of the rise in stage design and the act of putting-on-a-show that the music being performed has started to wane in quality. And then there...
“They built this whole neighborhood out of wood, out of wood, I guess I’ll...”
– They Might Be Giants
Top Ten of Aught-Ten: 9. Deerhunter- "Halcyon...
The fun thing about there being so many bands out there these days is that there’s always going to be one band that represents perfectly the notion of “evolution”. Meaning that with each album, something changes; the recording techniques get more complex or less complex, the sound quality varies in fidelity, or the songwriting could get simpler or more “out there”....
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Top Ten of Aught-Ten: 10. Spoon- "Transference"
It has gotten to the point where the second you hear a Spoon song, you know it’s a Spoon song. Their style is incredibly recognizable: the strained vocals of Britt Daniel, the rickety, garage-rock guitars, and the sound of a piano banging away in the foreground. In previous albums “Kill The Moonlight” and “Gimme Fiction” these factors were all there. And even with...
...we are all, in someway or another, going to...
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My name is Alex and this is my tumblr, in which I will be posting things about music: album reviews, news about bands, my own material and song ideas, and the occasional rant.
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