For this one, I asked our editors to submit songs we would play if we were DJs on a classic rock / AOR station. In particular, I was thinking about what kind of tracklist we would have generated if it was our job to program this compilation: http://lala.com/zJPTI
Houston Press writer Craig Hlavaty [...]
I personally don’t have a voice anyone needs or wants to hear. Since early in high school, it’s been painfully obvious that others find my nasally baritone less than appealing as a narrative or melodic force. And while I’m certainly willing to lend my vocal “talents” to a reading of Harriet the Spy or [...]
Or, Stop Telling Me How To Run My Band
By no means did I intend for my third guest NAP post to come so soon after my second. I got talked into doing this by Marshall and Ramon after an article entitled 10 Music Writers Walk Into A Bar, Decide Bands Should Get Off [...]
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I can’t figure out if that’s a Brooklyn hipster having a laugh or whether it’s a Tamil with a genuine concern. In any event, it goes on for a couple minutes too long.
बात दो Include fine penmanship among Slash’s attributes.
बात तीन It will probably surprise nobody that Joe Stack [...]
I think only one person reads this. My apologies to you. I’m gonna unload posts that I meant to write, but never did and probably won’t. It will be unreadable. Apologies again. But it will clean up the queue.
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Try to get the words, to do something more, more than signify, more [...]
I never thought I’d be a cool enough blogger to trump the blogosphere with a you-heard-it-first-here post, but it’s here and it’s now.
Here’s the first track released by Bumble Fly — a new band out of Austin, Tx.
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Yes, you heard right, a band fronted by a first-grader. So bring on your [...]
Watched American Hardcore, about the early ’80s US hardcore punk scene. I always find that story and the stories within extremely fascinating, but unfortunately I find most of that fast fast fast scream scream scream music intensely boring. In fact, I think the music I loved most in it was from San Francisco punks [...]
To the proprietors of the Vatican, “Lower” Washington St., Houston, Texas:
I write this evening to express my sincere thanks to you for providing me with some of the most important formative events in my musical life.
December 12, 1992 comes to mind, first and foremost, as the day that started with the marathon [...]
The early songwriter I was visiting the home of my parent’s friends playing in one of those tiny plastic pools when one of the party’s attendees said something like, “hey that’s a nice song you’re singing. Did you know there’s a real song just like that? It’s called, ‘Splish Splash I Was Taking A [...]
Chose Un The usual internet trawling has brought me to this series at Mix magazine. It’s a series about the way some classic songs were made. One of my favorites was “Stayin’ Alive”, which, because of various problems, features a drum loop from “Night Fever.”
Chose Deux Hey look, it’s some videos of [...]
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