Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Dec 4, 2009, 8:54 pm
 Even as I continue to creep inexorably towards the Big Five-Oh, I keep finding myself doing little things here and there for no substantive reason other than the assuredly futile pursuit of that...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Nov 25, 2009, 6:20 am
... so deep as an archetype; if you're employing the image of a train as a metaphor for some larger concept, you've likely conjured ... , escape in the face of oppression, for the loss of so...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Nov 19, 2009, 6:23 am
The "Machine Messiah" thing got in the way--it was pretty insistent about getting written--but even as I was writing the Lasorda post, I knew that I was gonna end up writing its inevitable musical tie...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Nov 15, 2009, 12:43 am
Now here's a song that has no right to be as good as it is . . . . Don't take that the wrong way, however. I grew up with prog, fell in love with it almost as soon as I had my early teen Elt...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Nov 10, 2009, 1:48 pm
You know, I tell people that I have a music blog. A couple people even acknowledge it. But it's not true. What I have is a blog about my iPod. The two things are similar, admittedly . . . . ...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Nov 5, 2009, 9:05 pm
... strangest record all the way through is pretty cool. But that's after I get over my first reaction, which is that Pussy Galore did it first, and probably did it better, plus they did it, like...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Oct 4, 2009, 12:22 am
As our flightless friend next door so insistently reminds us, it can be a difficult thing to try and control the connections that our brains make as we digest the various media that come our way. Our...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Sep 26, 2009, 11:56 am
Truly a song for the mp3 era 25 years before it arrived, "Data Control" is the kind of track pointed to with satisfaction by those who haven't really minded the Death of the Album: a fantastic son...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Sep 5, 2009, 12:05 am
Three more women were hanged as witches at Union Square last night. Both the county government and the legislature at Sacramento have issued proclamations that declare such acts of vigilantism "cou...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Aug 31, 2009, 6:24 pm
Like that redneck-chic T-shirt from the '70's said, the Queens of the Stone Age may not be perfect, but parts of their work are excellent. Each of their albums rock solidly, yet each undenia...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Aug 26, 2009, 7:06 pm
For a long time now I've been wondering--we've ALL been wondering --what the fuck is postrock, and you know what? I'm still no closer to knowing than I was when I heard Spiderland for the...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Aug 19, 2009, 10:04 am
They call Boing Boing "a directory of wonderful things," and when the mods haven't recursively disappeared up their own rectums while on some arcane and cranky civlib/Open Source diatribe, the sit...
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Joshua R. posted an article on La Historia De La Musica Rock - Aug 16, 2009, 1:46 am
Funny, how sometimes a song isn't about what you thought it would be about at all. Take the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song, "Heavy Metal." All this time I thought it was about, you know, heavy me...
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