In a lot of ways, Gorillaz is the 2000s version of Kiss. Not sonically, but visually. Like an aesthetic variant ( Read more... )

I could have sworn that Townes Van Zandt did a live cover of "Mr. Bojangles", but I can't find the fucking song anywhere on my hard drive. Or in any of my music encyclopedias. Son of a bitch ( Read more... )

I go through phases in my never-ending quest to acquire music. Sometimes I have a couple of albums kicking around my hard drive or shelf that I need to review and decide whether or not they're keepers. At other times it gets to be dozens. Right now it's getting ridiculous though. I just checked my "to review" folder on my fileshare drive and there' ( Read more... )

This is a weekly thing I want to start doing -- sharing the my favorite ten songs of the moment. A lot of it will be brand new music, but I'll throw in a few gems from the past too just to mix things up. Hopefully there will be something for everyone here and maybe you'll even discover your new favorite song. And where possible, I have linked the ( Read more... )

So I got sucked into a rehash of that old argument over who was a better drummer, John Bonham or Keith Moon. I cited the following video (which I may have posted before) as evidence for Keith Moon being the winner:

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Especially the bit between 1:16 and 1:26. Hooooly shit. And this is 1965 when he was only 19 years old. He was already that good. ( Read more... )

My new guilty pleasure: answering questions on Yahoo! Answers. Particularly the Rock & Pop and Computer Hardware sections ( Read more... )

My car's odometer hit 77,777 miles, my music collection broke 30,000 songs, and my Last.fm listens passed 35,000 listens all within roughly the same hour of the same day today.

Nothing lucky happened, but nothing particularly bad happened today either and sometimes (like lately) that's pretty lucky in itself.

So this story has been circulating for a few days now...

Congressman Pete King uses YouTube to attack Michael Jackson: 'a lowlife, a pervert'

And so it begs the question...

Poll

There is no right answer, I'm just curious what other people think.

From the LA Times: "35,000-year-old flute is oldest known musical instrument"

And what's more, it was found in the same cave that the 40,000-year-old Venus figurine -- the oldest known representation of the female form -- was found.

I was reading about a band on AllMusic and I came across this quote:

"...but the vocals were the true star of the show (no small feat in a musical climate overrun with disaffected Lou Reed-esque mumblers and bland Eddie Vedder impersonators)."The bit in parentheses is one of the most spot-on descriptions of the state of mainstream rock music ( Read more... )