“Sin City” from the first Flying Burrito Brothers record is quite humorous and tasty, with a dark element of fun and a chorus that repeats the bitter downcast mood. There’s an appropriate steel guitar lead in the middle of the cut which adds to the overall mood. I am wondering if this tune […]

Levon Helm, most well known as drummer & vocalist for The Band, was born on May 26, 1940.
The Band first became famous as Bob Dylan’s backing band in the mid 1960s.
In 1968 they releases their debut album Music from Big Pink which included “The Weight” (written by Robbie Robertson) and a version of Bob […]

Who could not like this? I do believe, dear boy, that after roughly a decade to digest, that this here record is emerging as something quite special in the overall Stereolab discography; absolutely no question whatever. The consistent and satisfying tone that Stereolab head henchman Tim Gane achieves on his rhythmic guitar parts […]

Weezer’s video for their new single “Pork & Beans” features many references to a lot of the biggest memes in YouTube history. Watching it is sort of like a game of “spot that meme.”
Chris Crocker & Tay Zonday are among the “YouTube stars” that appear in the video.
Check it out:

Okay, at times this almost sounds like an introspective Stereolab cut, and those familiar with “The Black Arts” from “Sound-Dust” will get what I mean exactly. Also, Beck is emoting in some sort of Morrissey universe here in places as well, so basically, he doesn’t exactly sound like himself. Truthfully, anything beats that […]

I would suggest that Folk Rock is indeed one of the better musical genres in the history of known music. While various brands of Classical may express the ultimate and certain elements of Jazz or the Jazz hybrid of Jazz Rock are often where it is no doubt at in most instances, Folk Rock […]

On May 17, 1983 “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie hit #1 on the US singles chart. It also hit #1 in the UK, Sweden, and The Netherlands.
The song features legendary blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn on guitar although he is not featured in the video for the song and declined to tour with Bowie […]

This song is off their fourth record which was released in 1969 entitled “The Soft Parade”, the album had a chart-topper in “Touch Me”, and indeed we all did. While it must be said that Jim Morrison was part lizard, which is something that I always found difficult, as I being a man naturally […]

On May 15, 1994 Blur’s Parklife went to #1 on the UK album charts making it their first #1 album. Parklife was their 3rd album.
The 16 track album contained 4 UK hit singles “Girls & Boys,” “End of a Century,” “Parklife,” and “To the End.” “Girls & Boys” was also a modest hit in […]

“Dollars and Cents” is the 8th track from Radiohead’s 2001 album Amnesiac, which is often unfairly looked at as a “collection of Kid A b-sides.” While I do not believe it’s as good as Kid A (not many albums are), it does stand up on it’s own as an excellent album.
It’s always been one […]