I had the good fortune of catching The Melvins live last time they played Boston. During this set, they stuck to rock oriented material, and didn’t really show their more experimental side. Although I’ve been listening to their material for years, it didn’t dawn on me until that show how essential Dale Crover’s, and more [...]
Thoughts on MF Doom
The idea of a rapper basing his whole persona around Dr. Doom, even going so far as to wear a metal mask in public, is awesome. Unfortunately the execution of said idea isn’t so great. No I’m not talking about Dr. Dooom a.k.a Kool Keith. Rather I’m talking about MF Doom or as he wants [...]
Why Adbusters sucks.
A few months ago Adbusters published an entire issue dedicated to taking the piss out of hipsters. Their argument boils down to this. The primary concern of a hipster is to be perceived as cool, and that overrides greater moral obligations to society. First off, just because someone comes from a rich background, wears stupid [...]
Freak Out!
I have to be honest, I could care less about buying most new CD’s and records. Its not because, I don’t like new music. On the contrary, I think theres probably the highest percentage of good music being released now than ever before. It takes time to dig through all the crap, but any resourceful [...]
A reaction to Adult Nights by Wild Light
Another album of conventionally orchestrated, super slick, songs about girls and parties, with a couple of songs about death or something sad thrown in for good measure. Its hard to tell exactly what some of these tunes, are about because the lyrics, while successfully rhymed, are vague enough that some of them might be mistaken [...]
