Tag: I hate Jason Gottfried
Unions can’t save the southern Utah music scene
The Independent's Bob Kulon recently had several good points about musicians’ unions. Generally, if one is primarily an orchestral musician, it’s beneficial to be...
Album Review: Sufjan Stevens’s ‘Carrie & Lowell’ a powerful poetic eulogy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJT00wqlOo
Album Review: Sufjan Stevens's 'Carrie & Lowell'
No one has really had the balls to so boldly straddle both the contemporary Christian and secular pop-rock...
Album Review: Aphex Twin’s ‘Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2’
Album Review: Aphex Twin's "Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2"
British musician, composer, and DJ Richard David James is Aphex Twin, one of the dark overlords...
Album Review: Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts’ ‘Blaster’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRCwjfvml0o
Album Review: Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts' "Blaster"
Here is an actual excerpt from Scott Weiland's actual diary (which I may or may not be...
Album Review: Blues Traveler’s ‘Blow Up the Moon’ is hilariously bad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxvUSosP8dA
Album Review: Blues Traveler's "Blow Up the Moon"
(as a consolation prize)
Remember how awesome Blues Traveler used to be their heyday? John Popper burst into...
Album review: With ‘Better Nature,’ Silversun Pickups still aren’t Smashing Pumpkins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4IDM3ltTYo
Album review: With "Better Nature," Silversun Pickups still aren't Smashing Pumpkins
It’s difficult to find a Silversun Pickups review that doesn’t mention Billy Corgan. You...
Book Review: ‘Ape and Essence’ by Aldous Huxley
"Ape and Essence" by Aldous Huxley
Harper and Brothers, 1948, 152 pages.
Like much of Aldous Huxley’s writing, “Ape and Essence” blends satire and social criticism...
Let’s face it: vegan ladies are hot
Look, I don’t mean to objectify anyone by saying that vegan ladies are hot. All people are beautiful (at least to their mothers) and...
Album Review: Chris Cornell’s ‘Higher Truth’ reaches new heights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhJ9IwYc5NU
Album Review: Chris Cornell's "Higher Truth"
How many frontmen and frontwomen have ditched their bands or walked away from a messy breakup, only to rise...
Album Review: Lana Del Rey’s ‘Honeymoon’ is masterfully melancholy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2VBFxt4zOM
Perhaps the concept of a singer as a musical heroine is a product of nearly a century of the American-British pop music movement just...