This...it feels like I just saw a farewell show. I mean, I'm choosing to think of it as a "goodbye for now" thing, but. That's not what it felt like in the room. So my joy at seeing them live, and hearing so much of the new album, is tempered by a bit of concern ( Read more... )

Why don't you all love Alkaline Trio as much as I do? If you did, I would not be getting distracted from useful things by the need to pimp them to you RIGHT THIS MINUTE BECAUSE THEY ARE AWESOME.

It's possible that AK3 are not the only band causing me this problem.

(Also, malnpudl and slidellra are going on a roadtrip to Canada, and I am insanely jealous of them

1. Minor Threat started the straight edge movement. (Not quite, no. Half right.)

2. D.O.A. were the first to use the Hardcore label. (Again, close but no cigar.)

3. The Replacements were a hardcore band. (Maybe if you squint. But not for very long.)

4. The Rollins Band was hardcore. (Um. Just, no.)

Unrelated, but vaguely amusing:1. Hardcore or ( Read more... )

This makes me sad ( Read more... )

Huh. Turns out 7000 words wasn't quite accurate. It's closer to 8050. Give or take.

The problem with making a list like this is that I’m not always looking for the same things in music that other people are.

Okay. I’m rarely looking for the same things. Toy pianos, for instance, do not rate highly on most of the Best Of lists I’ve seen. (I don’ ( Read more... )

*waves at new people ( Read more... )

The cool part about punk rock is that the songs are short, so you can get through fifteen of them in well under an hour. Even if you include "Police & Thieves." Also, they’re fast (except when they aren’t), angry (except when they’re happy), and heavily political (except when they’re about sex or something else entirely ( Read more... )

1. The animation for the math and physics on Numb3rs has reached the level of Annoying rather than Amusing after only two episodes. This may be a new record ( Read more... )

I was going to do a post on Fall Out Boy ( Read more... )

This one from llassah, who is starting a series of posts that will give everyone the basics they need to start thinking about music. Her first post denies that you need a degree or a ton of formal training to appreciate music,* and then lays out the basics of notation for anyone who doesn't have the written language of music already hardwired into their ( Read more... )