I found today’s song review, first of hopefully many, on NPR’s SXSW mix page. The page allows you to stream over a hundred artists that played SXSW last week, and download some of the songs. Actually, quite a few of them. About 30 or so, but who’s counting, right? One of the songs I downloaded [...]

I have a few ideas for several blogs. And not just individual blogs, but blog serieses. Or series’. Or is it series’s? Anyway. First and foremost I am finally going to respond to Dr. J’s original Facebook note about the “Top 15 Albums that have changed my life.” I will do this by giving each [...]

Dashboard is to punk like what Michael Bolton is to metal. No balls whatsoever. Heck, compared Dashboard to even original Emo, and I mean Fugazi and Rites of Spring and all that ’85 post-hardcore, slower, “emotional” music those DC kids were making and it’s like gumming your food. Absolutely without teeth.

Last week I heard, and then bought, the brand new Brand New album.  I highly recommend it.  So does AP, they gave it a 5/5 and along with a review the one-liner at the top read: “America finally gets it’s own Radiohead.”  Wait a sec.  That’s quite a heavy-hitter of a word to throw around.  [...]

It takes me about 5 days or less to make 20 calls It takes about 20 days or more to receive that many…