“Every club you go into, there’s always some old guy. He ain’t really old, just a little too old to be in the club.” – Chris Rock Finalizing my Best of 2009 music mix and thinking back over the past year, I pondered, “What was the best show I went to in 2009?” I got [...]
Die Young Stay Pretty – Blondie Released in 1979 on the album Eat to the Beat, I can’t believe this song never made much of an impression on me. It reads like legendary rock & roll, but plays like reggae. Check out this verse: “Oh, you sit all alone in your rocking chair Transistor pressed [...]
Interpol – July 21 at The Norva in Norfolk, VA Leading up to the show I was a bit bummed I hadn’t caught Interpol on a previous tour because “Our Love To Admire” had only been released a couple of weeks beforehand and I wasn’t bowled over. It’s not a bad album, but it hadn’t [...]
In December 2001 I put together a compilation of my favorite songs that were released that year and shared it with my friends. I thought that if I could encourage those friends to do the same, we’d get exposed to different music, learn something about one another’s tastes and get a smile out of the [...]
The question most frequently asked between sips of Stella and glances up from not-quite-broken-in Chucks at yupster parties this weekend will surely be, “So, what did you pay for the new Radiohead album?” Unsigned to a label as I write this, Radiohead released their new album In Rainbows for download on their website this week. [...]
You know you really like a particular artist when you find yourself thinking, “This is my new favorite song by…” while you’re clicking to replay that song in iTunes. If nothing else, it means that artist is getting pretty heavy rotation. I thought that this morning for probably the fourth time since I started listening [...]
