Between getting up ass early, riding to the hinterlands, and getting ready for Christmas, I'm running behind on this week's nugget of alternative rock goodness. And it definitely didn't help that this week's hunt was a bit harder than usual. The 1980s featured a LOT of bands who did Christmas songs or covers. The Pretenders, Cocteau Twins, and ( Read more... )

With a widespread outage in progress, I now understand why the device is called a crackberry, damn it. Grrr arrrgh, etc.

When reminiscing about the past or discussing history in general, there's a tendency to focus on one aspect or area and ignore others. As a musical example, during the Summer of Love when Woodstock and tie dye were all the rage, the number one hit single was the Archies "Sugar Sugar". In 1994, when grunge ruled the alternative rock world, ( Read more... )

So I thought I could do some prep work on Alternative Wednesday. Yeah, not so much. Mostly because I don't go looking through my CDs or MP3s to pick out a song that highlights a certain mood or theme or whatever. The songs I highlight tend to be whatever has most been stuck in my head for the days before I put this together and this week that ( Read more... )

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Mr. Cholmondley-Warner and Grayson demonstrate various madnesses.

Sorry for missing last week, something involving a turkey came up. To make up for the absence of alt-rock goodness, I offer one of the big ones ( Read more... )

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So earlier this week, there was a brief generational flareup between the Boomers and Generation X on one of the message boards I'm on. And because there's a chunk of my brain that's always thinking about music, I remembered of a compilation disc I picked up years ago creatively titled, Generation XBack in 94 when this came out it was a lot harder ( Read more... )

Who is Steve Albini you ask? Albini is one of the best producers of the last twenty years. If you're a fan of post punk, alternative, or punk, then you've heard his work. Among my favorite bits from the interview is songs being used in ads.

Growing up on punk rock in the 70s and 80s, could you ever have imagined that what was once considered ( Read more... )

One bit that st_sardonicist used to do on his Ell Jay was a bit called Rock Broughten Theater, where he would toss up a metal video from YouTube and write briefly about why they were either important or brought the rock. In a similar vein, I'm going to start a semi-random bit about my favorite genre of music that doesn't get much play anymore --- alternative ( Read more... )