This week’s episode is chocked full of topical discussions, in large part because Derek Wright was joined by Andre Salles from Tuesday Morning 3 a.m. The two music writers discussed the ups and downs of double albums, while the pair agreed on their potential but disagreed on the practice. The two also discussed a Wall […]
George Orwell didn’t think too highly of the year 1984. Published six months before the English writer’s death, Orwell’s famous novel 1984 remains a prophetic call-to-arms in the arena of modern civilization’s collective social awareness. Orwell’s anti-establishment magnum opus is a cautionary tale of blind acquiescence, with the author’s 1984 portrayed as a restrictive era […]
Secret Machines know a thing or two about side projects. The New York-by-way-of-Texas trio has dealt with them since the band’s conception. In their early years, Secret Machines came together as a temporary offshoot of acts such as Tripping Daisy and Comet. And years later — more than a half-decade into its spacey, long-reaching take […]
It’s difficult to comprehend how certain musicians are still alive. Somehow Keith Richards keeps chugging out guitar riffs. Somehow The Vines’ Craig Nicholls hasn’t fallen to his demise amidst reckless on-stage flailing. And somehow Shaun Ryder — the Happy Mondays’ drug-riddled vocalist and hard-partying leader — has managed to stay alive long enough to keep […]
Why can’t performers just come up with regular band names? Granted, there were a certain four Liverpudlian lads who felt the need to change the spelling of their band name, too, but this is just ridiculous. On this episode, Derek Wright reviews a half-dozen new albums from some of contemporary music’s most grammatically challenged artists. […]
A lone Dutchman is wandering through Chicago, his sandals strapped tight, a backpack secured with a day’s supply of water, and his eyes fixed on the famous skyline. Surrounded by high-rise buildings, Grant Park itself is one of the city’s most recognizable settings, but also a prime spot to take in the neighboring architecture. Buckingham […]
Get out your dancing shoes, and you might as well put them on, too. On this unintentionally club-centric episode, Derek Wright reviews six albums that are better served to keep you bobbing your head and wiggling your hips, than throwing a rock ‘n’ roll fist in the air. There’s also another installment of “Lyrical Life […]
Ousted Smashing Pumpkins bassist D’arcy Wretzky doesn’t think Silversun Pickups sound like her former band. The aloof rockstar told a Chicago radio station recently that the fuzzy guitars and gender-bending vocals of the California ensemble were nothing like Smashing Pumpkins. Then again, she also claimed to have been living in semi-seclusion on a Michigan horse […]
According to the never-questionable and always-sober reasoning of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, if the “real” Blur is back, then “shit Blur” must be back too. But as the iconic sun-glassed singer correctly pointed out, the mod-rocking Leeds, England quintet known as Kaiser Chiefs — and also known for copping Damon Albarn and Co. — did […]
Who better to piece thousands of sequential blips, bleeps and burps on top of one another than a guy with a master’s degree in doing just that? It’s what makes Bromst both the latest and most refined album from sample-happy Baltimore oddball Dan Deacon. A student of electro-acoustic composition at Purchase College State University of […]