Our favorite songs don’t always align with the ones we’d admit (perhaps begrudgingly) to being more technically superior. Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” is by no means a masterpiece but it ranks amongst my most played because of it’s significance in…
Album Review: Frank Ocean “Blonde”
For fans of Frank Ocean the wait for his latest album Blonde has been aggravating, to say the least. With some mighty determination they’ve done their best to brush off any image of fan entitlement but the hunger for his…
From the Record Crate: Pearl Jam – “Ten” (1991)
So let’s be honest, grunge music had a bad reputation going in. As far as pure music talent goes, grunge is a slimier version of punk rock. Play loud, play mean, play like you want to piss off your…
Green Day Release New Single “Bang Bang”
Did you hear that rumbling Green Day fans? That’s the sound of the excitement at what might be the first real promising song the band has released since 2004’s all timer, American Idiot. Yes, yes, “21 Guns” was a rather fun…
Music Review: Suicide Squad The Album
Well. This was a thing and I, for whatever reason, thought it was something I’d enjoy covering. Needless to say, I did not. I can say without question, that it is my least favorite pop culture, media escapade I’ve had…
By The Way: A Look Back at the Red Hot Chili Peppers
So yeah, I’m just throwing that image up there to start this off and get it out of the way, because this is probably one the defining images of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. They’re four white dudes playing a…
Album Review: The Hotelier- “Goodness”
It was always unlikely that any song on Goodness was going to evoke a similar response that “Dendron” did on The Hotelier’s previous album, Home, Like Noplace Is There, where emotion bled from the lyrics and internal pain was conveyed through the…