On Jethro Tull
If you want some rock and roll that was trying to do something groundbreaking and pretentious and crap, Jethro Tull is really good.
Category: Music
Weekend Plans Post: One Single Good Song in 2024
“If someone can show me one good song from 2024 I’ll give you a million dollars” challenge accepted
Painting With Sound: Beetlecrab Audio’s Tempera
There is nothing I know that gives a person this kind or amount of creative control over sound so intuitively.
Wednesday Night Jukebox: Abraham Alexander – Déjà Vu
A song that I only heard just today and thought that you’d like it too.
Music Monday: Happy 30th Birthday To The Greatest Ambient Album Of All Time (Maybe)
Global Communication, along with a slew of other aliases, was the brainchild of English duo Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard.
RENT has not held up
We should take it as a generational mission to rebel against rebellion for its own sake and eagerly embrace bourgeois, not bohemian, values.
Music Monday: Metal Songs In Which The Singer Barks Like A Dog
At some point, for reasons no one can explain and few would even attempt to devine, the lead singer for a metal band barked. Barked like a dog.
Waterloo: 50 Years Later
“Waterloo:” a premise so inane as to be borderline stupid, an uncredited musical lifting of a chorus, and a smash hit.
Music Monday: An Introduction to Ambient Dub Music
Ambient Dub music is a genre artists fold themselves into, rather than try to expand and break from. Some definitions and history are in order here.
Music Monday: It’s Spring, Let’s Emerge!
“Let’s Emerge!” is Pye Corner Audio’s – known to his mother and his friends as Martin Jenkins – fifth studio album, and it is indeed a surprise.
Music Monday: A Great, If Flawed, Musical
This past Wednesday my wife and eldest son went into Boston to the Wang theater to catch a performance of Hadestown. I’m told it was excellent. While I haven’t had the in-theater, there is...
Music Monday: World Building, Sound Building
A great example of artists mining an incredibly deep creative vein at a frenetic pace, a sound they were constantly honing both live and in studio
Music Monday: The Strangest Rockumentary Ever Made
“Heavy Metal Parking Lot” contains no narration, and other than some Judas Priest, is made up entirely of interactions with tailgating concert goers.
Who Remembers the Fire?
How much of the “big” stories like in “We Didn’t Start The Fire” that dominate our daily lives will turn out to actually be big stories that matter in our lives?
Music Monday: Bytes as Droplets of Water
The film and music are simply two different expressions of the same ideas, the same core theme.
Music Monday: Is This the Greatest Rock Instrumental of All Time?
Before introducing what I believe to be the greatest instrumental in the history of rock ‘n roll, allow me to acknowledge some worthy contenders to the title.
Music Monday: The Roland S-1 Tweak Synth
Yes, they were tacky. Yes, they attempted to grant unto the venerable keyboard the rock star charisma of the guitar. But hear me out…
Kacey Musgraves Does What Taylor Swift Hasn’t: Grow Up
In the gentlest way possible and with all due humility, this celebrity stoner tells us, “Get off your ass and stop dulling your senses.”
Music Monday: The Magnetic North’s Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North
This week’s Music Monday topic: The Magnetic North’s 2012 debut album Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a beautiful homage to the archipelago
