Beady Eye’s debut album is out this week. It’s called Different Gear, Still Speeding. Who is Beady Eye? Basically it’s Oasis without Noel Gallagher (who wrote most of their songs.) The lineup includes Liam Gallagher, Andy Bell, and Gem Archer. Liam being the only original Oasis member from the good old days of the ’90s [...]

The Vatican came out with a list of 10 recommended albums that is not altogether terrible (although there are some unusual choices.) Here it is: #1 The Beatles – Revolver The “hip” selection for #1 Beatles album. It’s not my #1, but most hipsters seem to think it’s the pinnacle of The Beatles output. I [...]

Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher is starting a new band with the other members of Oasis (Gem Archer, Andy Bell, & Zak Starkey) with the exception of lead songwriter and guitarist Noel Gallagher (that’s Liam’s brother who quit the band in August.) Liam had said that the band would not be named Oasis (although he [...]

First let me define what I mean by “rated” (because without doing that, “underrated” doesn’t mean much.) I’m talking specifically about the “ratings” of people in the US because some of these bands are actually quite highly rated in the UK (The Stone Roses & Oasis being obvious examples.) I’m talking about a combination of [...]

I don’t have much to add to this, but I thought it was amusing and that I should pass it along here: Eyewitness account of the fight that broke-up Oasis. I should mention, I’m not one of those hipster Oasis haters, I like Oasis (and not not just Definitely Maybe & Morning Glory.) One of [...]

According to this message on the official Oasis website Noel Gallagher has quit Oasis following an “altercation” with his brother Liam Gallagher (the band’s lead singer) prior to a concert (which was then canceled) in Paris last night. He wrote the following: “”It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit [...]

It’s almost been a full decade since the ’90s ended which means ’90s nostalgia ought begin kicking into high gear sometime soon. Here’s my bit to get that started. A look at the 10 most popular songs from the ’90s based on most Last.FM listeners over the past week. 01 – Oasis – “Wonderwall” – [...]

Every week Last.FM has a new top 500 tracks chart (ranked by the amount of different listeners each song had during the last 7 days.) It’s amazing to me how little the rankings seem to change week to week and how the same older songs seem to be in the list every week. That’s what [...]

As a follow up to the 60s/70s post, these are the top 10 artists who made their debut in the 1990s according to the Last.FM top artist charts. I think this is interesting as it gives an idea of which bands from the ’90s have continued to remain relevant to music listeners and which ones [...]

Microsoft has a program out now called Songsmith that creates music to go along with whatever vocal you sing into it. Some folks have had some fun with this by playing the vocal tracks of well known songs into the program to see what kind of music it would create for those songs. Check these [...]