This is, of course, old news by now, but I’m posting this for one main reason: None of the news stories I’ve seen, read or heard do the actual petition any justice in their excerpts and paraphrasing. To really enjoy the brilliance or absurdity of this lawsuit – whichever side you happen to fall on […]

I don’t know Alex, but I think what happened to her was horrible.

this is the fifth and final installment in my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 1. R.E.M. – “Up” On these past four entries, when I’ve said “I was a huge so-and-so fan,” I’ve meant it, but it all pales in comparison to how huge of an R.E.M. fan I was. Quick rundown: […]

this is the fourth installment in my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 2. Grant Lee Buffalo – “Copperopolis” These explanations are starting to get pretty formulaic and predictable. I loved a band, loved their music, loved their albums, new album came out, I hated it. So with each successive review revealing more […]

this is the third installment in my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 3. Matthew Sweet – “Blue Sky on Mars” Matthew Sweet is like this icon of “alternative” music for me. In the early 90s, when KKNB-FM switched from B-104’s pop music format to “The Planet,” I discovered this radio station that […]

this is the second installment of my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 4. Super Furry Animals – “Rings Around the World” I remember picking up Fuzzy Logic, the first Super Furry Animals album released in America, and falling instantly in love with the noisy, melodic, crazy, distorted, abstracted, beautiful pop music. It […]

this is the first installment in my countdown of my top 5 biggest letdown albums 5. Suede – “Head Music” I didn’t much care for Suede until Dog Man Star came out, at which point I was able to go back and get into their self-titled debut, which I couldn’t much get into at first. […]

Today begins my countdown of my personal Top 5 Biggest Letdown Albums of All Time. I was thinking about this while some friends and I were discussing who we would consider the greatest rock band of this decade, and it made me realize how many bands I used to really love put out really disappointing […]

If you’ve seen Built to Spill live within the past year to year and a half, you’ve no doubt heard the two songs on their new double A-side single. I thought they were two of the consistent stand-outs from all the shows I saw – “They Got Away,” their original dub composition, and “Rearrange,” the […]

I’ve finally digitized my poor VHS copy of the Kermit Keeshan mini-documentary I did back in early 2003. As I’ve written about before on here, the original DV copy and footage had been lost, and one surviving VHS copy remained. I discovered this afternoon that the VHS copy had been damaged, as some of the […]