It’s abnormal to create an original sound in today’s landscape. Genres ape other genres, with rising musical movements hailed as revolutionary when they are simply poor stepchildren of previous inventions.
Jesus and Mary ChainJesus and Mary Chain
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Guided by VoicesGuided by Voices
September 2012, 40 Watt, Athens, Ga. To the right of the drum kit sat the blue cooler with its never-ending supply. Robert Pollard walked center stage, with a half-empty tequila
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Art museums are places I enjoy when I’m in them — in fact I enjoy them more than I think I will — but they’re never places I yearn to
Review: California Wives, Art HistoryReview: California Wives, Art History
A problem arises when modern bands comprised of members who were born in the 1980s try to replicate vintage music from the 1980s, especially to those of us who lived
Review: Dreamers of the Ghetto, Enemy/LoverReview: Dreamers of the Ghetto, Enemy/Lover
For whatever reason, during each listen of Enemy/Lover, the debut album from Indiana’s Dreamers of the Ghetto, my mind invariably references “Big,” the 1988 film starring Tom Hanks. The movie
Review: Sun Kil Moon, Among the LeavesReview: Sun Kil Moon, Among the Leaves
For many years I worked in jobs centered around daily deadlines, where at a certain time of each day I had to pick up my pace and finish. Sometimes I