Nine Songs from the Nineties ...and the Muses That Inspired Them On a surface level, most songs you hear are fairly straight forward in their meanings. You’ve got your classic themes: love, anger, betrayal, depression,
A Light in the Black: Seven Songs That Explain the History and Legacy of Rainbow If you grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s like I did, you think you know all you need to know about classic
A Series of Unfortunate Concert Events…and Some (Written) Rules to Enhance Your Experience I’ve been to a lot of different shows in a lot of different places lately. And what I’ve been seeing has been making
I’m Judge and I’m Jury and I’m Executioner, Too: Who Deserves the Most Blame for Metallica’s St. Anger? I regret to inform you all that I had a very unfortunate experience about a week ago. I listened to Metallica’s 2003 release, St.
Can't You (Road) Trip Like I Do? Summer is finally here! The weather’s warm and the living is easy. Time to relax, enjoy some time off, and maybe take a vacation
The World's Gonna End in a Month or So: Queens of the Stone Age's In Times New Roman... Josh Homme has been through some shit since we last heard from him and his bandmates on 2017’s Villains. In fact, it all started
Left Far Behind: ‘90s One-Hit Wonders You Probably Forgot About Not all one-hit wonders are created equal. Some endure the test of time and become songs that play on the radio, in grocery stores, in
Walking in Circles, Back to Square One: Foo Fighters' But Here We Are It would have been easy for Dave Grohl to walk away from the Foo Fighters forever after 2022. That’s what I expected him to
In the Gardens and the Graves: The Wasted Talent of Doug Hopkins The ‘90s alternative scene had no shortage of tragic figures. The era produced rock stars who were exceedingly flawed. Music media seemed to glorify the
Old Bands Making New Music: Metallica's "72 Seasons" Metallica’s 11th studio album, 72 Seasons, was released worldwide this morning after a few months of hype and promotion. The band announced the new
Merch Madness: How I Infiltrated the Concert Poster Community (or... How I Became a Huge Concert Poster Nerd) It’s 90 degrees on a Sunday morning in St. Louis. I’m standing on line outside the Enterprise Center, home of the NHL’s
To Daisy, With Love: MTV’s Top 20 Video Countdown and the Turning Point for ‘90s Alternative You might not know it if you tuned in today, or anytime in the last twenty years really, but the main function of MTV used
