The many flavors in your ear.
Also country, dance, and, well, everything that isn’t metal or rap. There’s a lot of ladies on this list, and a lot of stuff from foreign countries, and two records by Texas-based singer-songwriters on MCA’s phonus-bolognus country subsidiary. I realize that my picks this year read like those of a …
People are still making rap music! Can you imagine? Maybe it’s not a trend after all. Foxy grandma even noticed some beats being jacked when she was watching Glee last week. Thank goodness for the internet, where we can keep on arguing about ‘relevance’ and ‘credibility’ until the return of cows. …
If you get paid to write about music, you have to make top ten lists at the end of the year. If you fail to do this Dave Marsh comes to your house and reads you Bruce Springsteen on Tour: 1968-2005 in its entirety. So, here goes, first with my metal …
I made a fake Muslimgauze song out of found sound tidbits from FreeSound UK. I think you’ll agree it’s pretty good, if you ignore its total lack of rhythmic coherence and song structure. 01 Jamila Fear of Flying
I’ve been listening to a collection of incredible music from the ’40s and ’50s by Holiness preacher Brother Claude Ely, which is inspiring in all kinds of ways, but also deeply frustrating. For one thing, as much as I like to denigrate religion, it is one of the few things …
Spring is here, and a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love. I am not a young man, nor lovable neither, so my fancy once again turns to all that is fraudulent, disinformed, and cozened in the world of criticism. We’ve spoken of this before, and I suppose nothing …
Osama bin-Laden is dead, and that can only mean one thing: it is safe once again to listen to comedic podcasts on the internet. Yes, the hateful murderer’s reign of terror is over, and finally, the PetardCast can return to the air to make obscure jokes without fear of reprisal …
Once again, it’s time to use the technology of the 21st century to indulge in the kind of wacky-pants comedy that would have seemed outdated in the 18th. Yes, it’s a brand new episode of the PetardCast, and it will blow the doors off of your barn, if your computer …
The thing that has been most appealing about Amon Amarth since they first came to prominence in the late 1990s is that they really seemed to be having a blast, and their stomping, rowdy form of Scandinavian death metal was more than capable of infecting listeners with that good-time, kill-your-neighbors …
THINGS YOU CAN DO TO JANIS JOPLIN’S HEART Take it Break it Have it THINGS IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN DO TO JANIS JOPLIN’S HEART Shake it Bake it THINGS YOU CAN’T DO TO JANIS JOPLIN’S HEART Make it start beating again after a fatal heroin …
If there even has been an example of not judging a book by its cover, Blood Ceremony is it. When their self-titled debut LP showed up in my mailbox back in 2008, I didn’t exactly look forward to listening: bad cover art, generic name rendered in a sloppy font, uninspiring …
SU-CHIN PAK: Welcome back to MTV Cribs, where we’re lucky enough to have hooked up with big Suge Knight. He’s been gracious enough to let us join him in the large Las Vegas mansion he’s returned to after spending a bid in the… SUGE KNIGHT: Hey. You see that nigga? …
This joke has been cribbed about a million times recently, but I originally wrote it — with some assists from Angie Epley (center square) and Whitney Pastorek (B-6) — in 2007, so I’m claiming credit for the original idea. Plus, mine is funnier. Prove me wrong, internet. It’s time once …
“I never met anybody,” Richard Pryor once pointed out, “who said when they were a kid: I wanna grow up and be a critic.” Did he ever meet anyone who said ‘I wanna grow up and watch movies and listen to music and read books all day’? That will remain …
Since people can never get enough of pop music or good cooking, I present once again a selection of recipes from some of my favorite Rock ‘n’ Roll Cookbooks. Enjoy, and as always, add your own. MANGEZ-VOUS: SOMEONE’S IN THE KITCHEN WITH ABBA Chiquenpita Souper Trouper Watercress Nina’s Pasta Florentina …
