Our band could be your life. Welcome to Double Album December year 3! Vinyl Monday is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. To celebrate the holidays, I’m covering a bonus album every Friday – all double albums! For my […]
In 1985 The Replacements had the potential to become the next big thing. After four years of producing quality pop-coated hardcore, their major label debut Tim was supposed to be their next step, their leap into the mainstream. As stated in the album’s Rolling Stone review: “Tim… sounds as if […]
Emo is tough to define. As Andy Greenwald wrote in Nothing Feels Good: “Emo means different things to different people. Actually that’s a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people.” For the most part it’s more of an insult than a genre, and because of […]
Pixies started out as a joke. More specifically, a want-ad referencing the post-hardcore Hüsker Dü and light-weight 60s folk three-piece, Peter, Paul and Mary, with the additional condition that applicants have “no chops”. No musical experience required. Bassist Kim Deal took the bait, and unknowingly became essential to one of […]
