In the context of music, the word “pop” is short for “popular”, and is often used to encompass both anything that actually achieved widespread success, or seems like it could or should have. In this post, we’ll focus on a … Continue reading Scene Spotlight: Power-Pop
MERCURY REV – Holes Note: As is de riguer for much psychedelia, some of these videos may contain visuals which are ill-advised for epileptics, migraine sufferers, and your workplace. There’s a persistent urban legend that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Mercury Rev
Dig that awkward announcer! I’ll try my best to do better. In the 50’s and 60’s, Jamaica was getting an influx of American music, notably jazz and rhythm & blues via radio broadcasts from New Orleans; crossbreeding these sounds with … Continue reading Scene Spotlight: First-Wave Ska
NOTE: This was originally written September 2013; a subthread earlier today reminded me of my somewhat-complicated feelings about the band, so I thought I’d repost it here today in lieu of an Artist Spotlight. ****** There have been a lot … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Nirvana – Of Myths and Men
Austin rock stalwarts Spoon have been so consistent, and consistently good, that review aggregator Metacritic named them artist of the decade, 2000-2009 . If you’ve somehow missed out on the band, now’s as good a time as any to catch … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Spoon
Seam – Berlitz Underheard during their 1990s lifetime, and seemingly all-but-unknown today, the Chapel-Hill-born-and-Chicago-bred Seam produced a consistently beautiful and powerful body of minimalist rock over the course of four LPs and an EP. True to their name, Seam existed … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Seam
Anybody remember MTV’s Amp? It was a mid-nineties late-night program with no VJ’s, focused on electronic music. They would “mix” or blend the videos in a fashion similar to a DJ mixing tracks. It was pretty cool. Unfortunately, there appear … Continue reading Scene Spotlight: ’90s Electronic
The 80’s get a lot of guff: for the fashions; for the hair; for not being the 60’s, or the late 70’s, or the 90’s, or whatever. But lemme tell ya sonny, the 80’s were a pretty great time for … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: The Psychedelic Furs
