A former co-worker of mine once said of Evan Dando, “I don’t like his music, but I bet he has a great record collection.” This opinion seems to mirror the feelings of many who were initally turned off by Dando’s pin-up good looks and saccarine vocals. In the post-grunge era of the early 90′s, the [...]
Chaos has descended upon our nation’s capital and 2 million people have come to welcome our new president. This means that I have been subjected to tour buses trying to parellel park on the street, masses of people lost on the metro, and near stampede’s outside of Ben’s Chili Bowl 1 as the nation lines up for [...]
Minisnap are essentially the legendary New Zealand band the Bats sans group leader Robert Scott. Though one of my favorite albums of 2008, Bounce Around, has not generated much hype around the interwebs. It seems that a group of middle aged kiwis lacking their principal songwriter would deserve a quiet reception, but guitarist Kaye Woodward [...]
A reader recently wrote in and asked for this show to be re-posted. The set is so fantastic, I couldn’t help but comply. In fact, this has become my go-to Iron & Wine recording, often passing it over for any of the studio recordings. In February of 2007 Sam Beam played a pair of seemingly [...]
There are no cities that have shaped my musical taste more than Washington, DC . This may seem odd since I grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and I am too young have experienced the initial punk explosion with Teen Idles and Bad Brains or the glory of Revolution Summer. Either way, Dischord has provided a [...]
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