Even battle rappers will tell you battle rappers don’t usually make good music. Eyedea fans would disagree, but even “Big…
Category: Recent Obsessions
Funkentelechy: The Placebo Syndrome, Parliament’s sixth album, came out forty years today. Here are some of my retrospective thoughts on it….
I never thought of “Starfish and Coffee”—that sweet, mysterious song—as a children’s song until I saw Prince perform it on…
Nothing is more inspiring than watching people have fun doing something they’re good at. Lately I’ve been watching a lot of…
In Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street – which came to Netflix this month – there’s a…
I was about 13 or 14 when I discovered the great Japanese band Boris. I found them through their primary influence…
Anyone put off in the least by the term “new age” would do well to check out Laraaji. The man’s…
The term “baroque pop” can apply to a great number of things: the harpsichord-assisted pure pop of the Left Banke,…
