This is the end my friends, the final installment in my big birthday capping list. To see the previous entries click here for 101-200, here for 201-300, here for 301-400, and here for 401-500. 100. Minutemen – Double Nickels on The Dime (1984) San Pedro’s finest was a;also one of the greatest bands to [...]
Here it is– The final four! 1) Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are you The Destroyer?This is the best concept album ever about moving to Norway with your new wife only to find your marriage falling apart. Lest you think that’s faint praise, this is a disgustingly good album, fun to listen to with it’s [...]
My Bloody Valentine: “Pay what you bloody choose? Piss off!” Billboard reports that legendary shoegazing noise droners My Bloody Valentine plan on issuing their first new album since 1991′s classic Loveless via the series of tubes we like to call the Internet. Their manager Vinita Joshi refers to this as “Do(ing) a Radiohead…” though unlike Radiohead’s recent [...]
Radiohead did a very special webcast this weekend that included a clutch of live covers as well as performances of some of the tracks from In Rainbows. Also included was this very funny takeoff on one of the most famous scenes in David Fincher’s Se7en: Here they are covering New Order’s “Ceremony” from the November [...]
Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood “You like my filigrees then?” “I don’t wanna be your friend/ I just wanna be your lover” Thom Yorke croons at the beginning of “House of Cards” on Radiohead’s new album In Rainbows. Whoa, what’s this? Directness, sexiness, enunciation, on a Radiohead album? Yes and no, and that’s the beauty of [...]
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