Silver & Gold – Neil Young If you want to get technical, the 2000s for me started in downtown Buffalo, NY. I was in pleather pants and a long-sleeve purple velvet shirt, smack dab in the middle of 18,000 people at a Barenaked Ladies concert. I was neither drunk nor high, despite my choice...
Towards the end of 2009, while reading Nick Hornby’s collection of essays called “Songbook”, I got the idea to write a series of essays revolving around music, or more specifically, the albums that meant the most to me in the first decade of the 2000′s. Actually, that’s not exactly accurate, the albums I was...
I started work on this website in October 2004. At the time I was sitting in the lobby of the University Center at Edinboro University. Watching some Michael Moore documentary. Thinking of ways to help promote my first novel. Payday. The one I hadn’t finished yet. A website seemed a good enough idea. ...
This is a guest post from Caleb J Ross, author of the chapbook Charactered Pieces: stories, as part of his ridiculously named Blog Orgy Tour. Visit his website for a full list of blog stops. Charactered Pieces: stories is currently available fromOW Press (or Amazon.com). Visit him at http://www.calebjross.com. Music is a way to...
Supergroups are all the rave this decade. Velvet Revolver. Audioslave. The Raconteurs. Chickenfoot. Next in line are the Monsters of Folk: Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, super-producer Mike Mogis, Retro-Nuevo troubadour M. Ward, and My Morning Jacket front man Jim James. If the gold standard is the Traveling Wilburys—and it is—the Traveling Wilburys they are...
Jónsi & Alex is Jónsi Birgisson, Sigur Rós vocalist/guitar player-with-bow extraordinaire, and Alex Somers, musician and visual artist to, among others, Sigur Rós. On their debut album, Riceboy Sleeps, they combine for one mother of a meandering glide through the subtleties of sound. The album started as a side project between Sigur Rós recordings...
These days it’s getting harder and harder to find something to smile about. Grin, the second album of Toronto-based blueVenus offers itself for consideration. Grin is a tale of hurdles; the overcoming of them, the outright avoidance of them, and the tracks of tears and smiles of the miles in between. The album starts...
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