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Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
Ozzy Osbourne returned in February with his first solo album in a decade and first batch of songs since the Black Sabbath tour document The End. That EP had a few studio leftovers from 2013’s comeback album 13 and a few live tracks from the tour. It didn’t feel like...
Cooker – Setting the Head on Fire
The post grunge landscape of the late 90’s / early 00’s is littered with Nirvana-lite failures – bands that grabbed the limelight for a brief moment with catchy songs full of faux pain, then disappeared – missing the roots and point of the Seattle original scene....
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Live – Mental Jewelry
Part 7 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years – Flashback Fridays 1991 for me represented a musical awakening - although I vacillated between hair metal and hip hop, I seemed to yearn for...
Cable35 – Louder
I had the privilege of attending high school during the years 1991 to 1995 - what could be viewed as the peak era of commercialization of the Seattle grunge sound (though as I will endlessly preach, the roots of grunge in my opinion originated with the 60's band The...
Yngwie J. Malmsteen – Trilogy
Part 6 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years – Flashback Fridays As a young kid the music played on the radio was a strange mix of hair metal and hip hop. I took it all in, absorbing...
Summer at Shatter Creek – All the Answers
Part 5 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years – Flashback Fridays In the late 90's the music scene was shifting quickly, and as a wannabe hipster, I made sure to keep up with what was...
The Unthanks – Diversions, Vol. 1: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons: Live From the Union Chapel, London
In the summer of 2005 I had the opportunity to visit Chicago, IL. I was very happy, because it gave me an opportunity to play Sufjan Stevens' Here Come the Illinois in the actual state of Illinois. I told you in my bio - I'm really not that cool. It also gave me a...
Graham Coxon – A+E
I'm not a huge fan of bands reuniting without a new album to promote. When The Chameleons reunited in 2000 and toured throughout the world, as fans we were treated to a new studio album (very underrated in my opinion), a live album, and two acoustic albums. More than...
Fountains of Wayne – self titled
Part 4 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years – Flashback Fridays In the years immediately following high school I spent a lot of my time driving up and down I-95. My quest (as well as my...
Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides
The show Gilmore Girls always frustrated the hell out of me. The mom (played by Lauren Graham) always failed to connect with me - it always looked like she was trying to think of her lines to me. The show itself had a mildly interesting premise and was usually...
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince – He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper
Part 3 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years – Flashback Fridays As someone who grew up in the Philadelphia region and then moved across the country to the Seattle, WA area, I've had to...
Madonna – MDNA
I have to be honest with you - as someone who is dedicated to only publishing positive music reviews, I did not expect to be reviewing the new Madonna album. A lot of praise was given for her performance at the Superbowl earlier this year - I was underwhelmed. The...
Genesis – Foxtrot
Part 2 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years - Flashback Fridays I wasn't completely honest with you in last weeks column. Although by the age of 19 I had sworn off mainstream music...
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
The Seattle region is the best region in the world. You may be thinking, "well...not so sure about that"...but from early June until late October we have almost NO rain (yes, you read that right). We are close to Puget Sound beaches, the Cascade Mountain chain,...
The Shins – Port of Morrow
The movie Garden State hit home on several levels. Zach Braff was amazing in the TV show Scrubs but hasn't always connected with me as a "movie actor" - here he was absolute perfection. His character returns home to New Jersey to deal with the death of a loved one....
The Chameleons – Script of the Bridge
1st entry in a weekly column entitled "Flashback Fridays" where I discuss albums that have impacted me over the years My day began with somewhat of a bizarre exchange with Courtney Love Cobain on twitter. After reading about her campaign against my childhood (and let...
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
Everything I know about Sweden can be distilled into the following: IKEA Swedish Fish (usually purchased at IKEA) Lingonberry Jam (purchased at IKEA) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Pärson Sound - International Harvester - Harvester - Träd, Gräs och Stenar (same band...
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