“You give it away like free samples / But I don’t want what anyone can have” I was at a work event last week and we liked to enjoy ourselves at night. It was one of those events where, following dinner, adults from their mid-20’s to mid-50’s turn into […]
I haven’t done this in a couple years, so I decided it was time to do this again, mainly for my own amusement. Thanks to Spotify, though, I can now share the god-awful music I listen to with everyone else. I’ve compiled this playlist, not necessarily by what […]
Adam Yauch, otherwise known as MCA of the Beastie Boys, died on Friday. He was 47 years old. I will miss him greatly. I’ve followed Adam for over 25 years, ever since the Beastie Boy’s debut album Licensed to Ill came out in 1986. I was 14-years-old; young […]
I was driving home from my MBA classes earlier tonight and, as I do with my countless hours in the car, I started flipping through the Sirius XM channels. I was trying to find something that made me linger longer than 10 seconds. My test during shorter car […]
One Saturday night in the fall of 1987, right after my 15th birthday when my family moved from Long Island to upstate New York, my musical tastes radically changed forever. It was the moment that I was watching MTV and saw the video for “It’s the End of […]
I miss Elliott Smith a lot. I didn’t know him personally, but I knew his music. He would appear on my CMJ New Music Monthly CDs quite often back in the last 1990s, either as a member of Heatmiser or as a solo artist during the pre-Good Will […]
For at least 20 years, I’ve made lists of my favorite albums, athletes, movies, directors, and so on. These lists are for no one in particular, except for the small, insecure man buried deep inside me who’s trying to escape and prove that he’s the world’s foremost authority […]
Tell ‘Em – Sleigh Bells Elite – The Deftones Head Held High – Velvet Underground Hot Tent Blues – Late of the Pier Pete Standing Alone – Boards of Canada Milk It – Nirvana Miles Runs the Voodoo Down – Miles Davis You’re a Man Among Men – […]
Here are the songs that randomly played on my iPod during a 2+ hour lawn mowing session at my home: Tea For One – Led Zeppelin Memory Loss – Radio Dept. Mary Jane’s Last Dance – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Little Fluffy Clouds – The Orb New […]
I find that trying to define the decade in music for me was as frustrating as trying to figure out what to call this decade. Or as mind-numbing as describing this picture of Kanye West and Paul McCartney. Do you call it the 2000’s, or the 00’s, or […]
