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 […]
“All the things they said are wrong are what I wanna be.” Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. This week, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the album with as […]
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 […]
For 10 weeks now, number 3 stood empty… Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on the very first rock opera, the Pretty Things’ S.F. Sorrow (released 1968.) Subscribe […]
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 […]
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way (released 1969.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday! Keep in touch: Instagram: @abigaildevoe https://www.instagram.com/abigaildevoe/ My website: […]
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, […]
