May 06 2008
Just downloaded the latest Nine Inch Nails album – “The Slip.” Really good stuff and it ventures into new territory on the commerce of music front - it’s absolutely free. A treat for fans, like me, who have been rabidly consuming Trent Reznor’s music since the late 1980s.
A nice way of a successful artist saying […]
Dec 30 2007
each year i try to put together a list of my favorite albums, here goes:
these are in no particular order, each with a link to the iTunes music store –
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years - Brilliant songwriting, clever musicianship, beginning to end a fantastic album of rootsy and blues influenced folk music.
Amy Winehouse - […]
Jul 25 2007
okay, smashing pumpkins - zeitgeist fucking rocks! i’m a smashing pumpkins fan from the very beginning (i know that everyone says it but…). i’ll go out on a big limb here but ‘tarantula’ is the rock song the music industry needed, a big stiff kick in the balls, frankly as hard as music fans could […]
May 10 2007
the new interpol single kicks ass - the heinrich maneuvre, not to be confused with the often laughed about joke - the hindlick maneuvre.
they keep churning out catchy tunes, i especially liked the last album, the new album is surely going to be another alt-classic. they mix enough pop, 80s and 90s alternative and brit-poppie […]
May 08 2007
god damn, i love frank black. his new single ‘threshold apprehension‘ is a return to his more pop-rock, alt-rock, lyric twisting and turning lovely music.
this is the best thing he’s released since early frank black albums, and the pixies as his other, alter-ego - black francis. no one writes three chord ditties quite like frank.