What are my favorite, top music documentaries of all time? A few on this list might surprise you. Today we’re doing a countdown inspired by a recent comment on my YouTube post covering Brian Jonestown Massacre. It’s no surprise I love digging into the history of bands, albums, and songs […]
Ray Davies of The Kinks held onto a melody for years before waking up one morning with the completed song at his fingertips. This is the basis for “Waterloo Sunset” from 1967, one of The Kinks’ most beloved songs. For this story we go back to the beginning, because “Waterloo […]
It’s time to look at one of the most petty songs around: “Unhappy Birthday” by The Smiths. Today we’re looking at a track off The Smiths’ final album, Strangeways, Here We Come from 1987. The album was released a few months after the band broke up. Despite the ongoing feud […]
Who Blind Melon was as a band often gets pigeonholed with “No Rain” and the Bee Girl video. But that read is inaccurate. Dig deeper into their music and you’ll discover a depth not often found in the 90s alt rock scene. “St. Andrew’s Fall” off their 1995 album Soup […]
Pull up any ranked list of top songs by The Smashing Pumpkins, and “Soma” is probably on it. Tucked near the midpoint of the band’s 1993 masterpiece Siamese Dream, the song was never a single, didn’t have a music video, and wasn’t promoted like Today or Disarm. Yet it’s a […]
In Radiohead’s early days, back when they were known as On A Friday, multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood had the most shocking beginning in the band: He couldn’t play. Yet from those early days, he has become one of the most cherished and influential rock musician and film composers in the modern […]
This has to be one of the funnier stories in indie rock history, and it all centers around one of the more pleasant indie pop bands out there: Belle And Sebastian. After the success of their first two albums in 1996, the Scottish band ventured to London with Arab Strap. […]
Two years after the death of Nirvana’s frontman, The Church of Kurt Cobain was formed in Portland. Press ran brief articles announcing its formation and a handful showed for the debut sermon of its founder Reverend Jim Dillon, outnumbering the small congregation. But things were not as they seemed. This […]
Spiritualized and The Verve crossed paths in 1995 and shared some stages. But they also shared a little more than that. Kate Radley, who had been a core piece of Spiritualized and was frontman Jason Pierce’s girlfriend, started up a secret relationship with Richard Ashcroft of the Verve. In fact, […]
Ray Davies wrote “Sunny Afternoon” while sick, feverish, briefly separated from his own band, and legally barred from touring the country where the song would eventually chart. He recorded the vocal in one take, hated it, asked to do it again, and was told there was no time left in […]
