Surprising. Unexpected.
I did not know what to expect from this album. Album cover? Made Out Of Babies? Metal that’s “not metal”?
Well, turns out, it’s pretty darn good. Or at least, so far, it’s more accessible than expected. Good!
The first track, “Cooker,” definitely starts the album off on a good note. Or rather, some good pushed-to-its-limits [...]
Awesome show. Great, great show. Completely different from the night before. Amazing. Absolutely great.
The band opened with “That Man I Shot.” They played “Bob,” “Steve McQueen,” and “18 Wheels of Love” (!!!). DBT played “18 Wheels of Love” with the start-the-song story intact and then followed it up by concluding the story with the present-day [...]
It’s f__kin’ great to be alive!!
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What a great, great show. The Truckers gave it their all. Every ounce of their energy for one of the best rock shows I have ever seen.
You can put the Drive-By Truckers into whatever country subgenre you want, but when it comes down to it, they are just pure rock [...]
Openers White Denim were energetic, fun, and interesting.
Tapes’n’Tapes were dull’n’dumb.
Not really too dumb, but it was definitely one of the more boring shows I have ever been to. They are not very good live performers. No encore. Not captivating. Very, very limited audience interaction (from the band) (basically none at all). The bass was good, [...]
Dead Meadow at the Black Cat, backstage. With Ancient Sky.
The Red Room is a nice place. That’s where we wait before former local (D.C.) band Dead Meadow put on their show at the tiny backstage venue of the Black Cat.
The backstage is very intimate and small and comfortable and the sound system is pretty great. [...]
This may be a month late. But here it is.
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The Bordeoms are one of the weirdest bands you might ever see live. Not really too weird, but their shows are as interesting as any other show you’ve seen. They’re just so…different.
While the Boredoms may not make the greatest music or put on the greatest show [...]
If you haven’t noticed, it’s unlikely we will post any more detailed, comprehensive, elaborate posts about the media that appeared in 2007. But there’s this post. Which is slightly comprehensive (at least on the music side of things).
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters by the Twilight Sad is the best album of 2007. Original, new, brilliant, [...]
Rick Ross once said, “My presence is my presence.” One of the most intelligent quotes a cool person can make. And Ross is right again, proving all haters wrong with the release of his second solo album, Trilla. His magnum opus is, without a doubt, the best album that has been and ever will be [...]
I now present my semi pop culture literate Top five albums of the year since I have predominantly invested my time in digging through the back catalogs of great artists and going through pop music through the decades. I still recommend mid-Who, early Bowie and post Bends Radiohead to anything out currently but somebody [...]
In Rainbows. Boy, oh, boy. It’s been the subject of blogmania for over a month now, and is still worthy of a write-up.
Radiohead’s seventh studio album got its famous release on October 10, 2007. Good fans (young, old, cheap, affluent, new, experienced, hobbits, Kim Jong Il, Chelsea Clinton) everywhere downloaded the album as the buildup [...]
Speechless, brilliance:
1. Reasonable Doubt.
2. American Gangster/The Black Album/The Grey Album
3. The Blueprint
And that’s how you sum up a man’s life.
As you may already know, Jay-Z was inspired by a screening of the Ridley Scott film American Gangster and decided to make songs that were inspired by the movie. That’s the official version at least. What [...]
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