For any American alternative teenager in the late 80s, there was a pantheon of British doom-and-gloom bands that included The Smiths, The Cure, Depeche Mode, and New Order.
Echo & The Bunnymen were second-tier. They weren't any gloomsters favorite...
I don't know if I can say it better than Bill Maher, but I will quote him, the way the Democrats are going with this health care thing, I'm going to start going to Town Hall meetings to protest.
Everything about this has been wrong. The Dems are...
Was there a cooler artist in the mid-90s than the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
With the Pitchforked masses seemingly only interested in bands that sound like Grizzly Bear or the Arcade Fire, I was curious what Jon was up to.
He is fronting a band...
November is NaNoWriMo, which means if you are so inclined to pound out 50,000 words in 30 days, you are encouraged to. I won't be doing that this year. For supportive purposes, I plan on acting like a novelist (play the ponies, drink myself to death)...
