The best version of Sweet Jane by Lou Reed
March 25, 2016
Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground are the point at which old and musky rock n’ roll becomes exciting alternative music. Really it’s simply because their sound, attitude, and lyrical themes were so far removed from the rock music that was popular at the time.
R.E.M.'s misheard lyrics
March 16, 2016
R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe has always earned plaudits for his transcendent, expressive singing. This style of singing, however, frequently included the traithaving the lyrics pronounced in such a way where their meaning became nearly impossible to decipher. This was…
Genesis P-Orridge is an artist, musician, singer-songwriter with the groups Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle. Throbbing Gristle especially is considered one of the innovators of industrial music and other electronic genres. The group had evolved from a performance art…
Weird Rock Star Action Figures
March 12, 2016
The crafting of action figures is a business that normally focuses on the assumed physical likeness of world-famous comic book superheroes. These are the make-believe characters possessing superpowers, characters with a selfless desire to change the world, those who appeal…
Iggy Pop and Peaches collaboration
March 10, 2016
Iggy Pop has always provided his best work collaborating with other artists of the same ilk. He, of course, worked with David Bowie on two of his most famous albums, served as the inspiration for Ziggy Stardust, and has recently got Josh Homme involved in producing and…
Dynamic rock duos: A top 10
March 6, 2016
Rock duos have proven themselves to be a great lineup alternative throughout modern music’s patchy history. As far as band configurations go, late 60’s hard rock did the most to strip things the band dynamic to their bare essentials: voice, guitar, bass, and…
Nirvana and the Screaming Trees planned a Leadbelly covers album
February 22, 2016
First of all, it never actually happened. But it almost did. In the summer of 1989 Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana and Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel of the Screaming Trees organized two recording sessions with the intention of recording covers of Leadbelly…
The Half Japanese method of playing guitar
February 21, 2016
Some bands simplify their way into musical excellence, other bands, like Half Japanese, prefer to reinvent the medium in their image. Here’s your guitar method via this great experimental rock group.
In terms of DYI punk ethics few groups have taken it to the…
Wrong place, right time: At the Drive-In
February 20, 2016
Continuing, the series, we remember the time that television was kind enough to bring At the Drive-In to the world. It was 2000 and the soon to be legendary post-hardcore band had put out the album “Relationship of Command”. It was their most successful album…