Good Times Never Seemed So Good: A friendly suggestion – if things are looking bleak, and you can’t seem to do anything to perk yourself up, sing a Neil Diamond song. Doesn’t matter which one, though I would think that his best-kn[…]
SUM 41 — “Fat Lip” CAKE — “Short Skirt Long Jacket” SUGAR RAY — “When It’s Over” A Brief Discussion Concerning Modernism (Loosely Interpreted) In Three Parts I. “[One device of moderni[…]
And now, we interrupt the usual intelligent pop discourse for yet another MuchMusic testimonial, proving unequivocably that MuchMusic (USA or Canada) is the only video/music channel worth a damn. As if the obvious superior aspects of the channel are[…]
It’s funny that Ned should post an article on summer festivals past, given that I was attending a summer festival of my own this past weekend. The Siren Music Festival (sponsored by the Village Voice and various folks) offered the usual festiv[…]
P. DIDDY, BLACK ROB, & MARK CURRY – “Bad Boy For Life” Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” has always confounded me. Jimmy Page plays a riff straight from the Neil Young Perfectly Inept Solo school. Well, the riff it[…]
D12 (with Eminem) — “Purple Hills” / “Purple Pills” HAWD GANKSTUH RAPPHUS MC’S (WIT GATZ) — “Reptile Haus” The first time I heard ‘Purple Hills’ (thank you again, MuchMusic), it was a […]
PUFFY AMIYUMI – “Boogie Woogie No. 5” Two young Japanese girls, stumbling around a stark white film set in torn jeans and sneakers (among many other outfits), with boys dancing around them in khakis, and a pale imitation of a Gene K[…]
Everyone’s written a love song ‘ silly, serious, heart-felt, ironic, and all the various permutations throbbing and convulsing therein. Often, the best ones try to reconcile these conflicting traits ‘ for instance, Elvis Costello&#[…]
I hereby declare June 26, 2001 Sugababes Day. Their debut record (One Touch) was released in the US. Their song “Overload” (a blissfully atypical pre-fab pop track, which means it’s damn good – never mind Tom’s grousin[…]
Too Many Words?: Oh, you can never have too many words about music! First, there’s Neumu.com, a new endeavor run by Michael Goldberg (the former editor-in-chief of Addicted to Noise, once THE pre-eminent webzine for all things musical & h[…]