Living Colour & Friends: The Power of Music (and Memory…)
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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before*
Let me tell you a story. It involves a white male born in a steadily prospering town to a slowly prospering family. His father, the first in his Irish family…
Gary Clark Jr.: Seeing Is Believing
It’s only happened on two other occasions, before last Friday night. In 2001, seeing Mike Patton in person for the first time, with his brand new side project Tomahawk (at…
Keep on Baracking in the Free World: 10 Songs for 4 (More) Years
1. Now's The Time. Because, you know, it is. 2. Focus on Sanity No further comment necessary. Thank you America!!! 3. II B.S. His name is CHOLLY MINGUS and I…
Elvis Is (Still) Dead: Long Live The King (Revisited)
Poor Elvis. The one-time king is now more often the (big) butt of jokes (see?). But his musical and cultural imprint remains huge and will forever be impossible to escape…
Ten Albums That Supposedly Suck (But Do Not): #8 & #7
8. Fantômas, Fantômas (1999) This one is a bit of a stretch; it may even be cheating a little bit to include it since it’s not (necessarily) dismissed. On the…
Living Colour’s ‘Stain’: 19 Years Ago Today
Confession: I would not have known this album was released 19 years ago today if not for Vernon Reid's Facebook post. But I'm glad I saw it, because it gives…
Elvis Is (Still) Dead, Long Live The King!
Poor Elvis. The one-time king is now more often the (big) butt of jokes (see?). But his musical and cultural imprint remains huge and will forever be impossible to escape…
Ten Albums That Supposedly Suck (But Do Not): #7
7. Living Colour, Stain (1993) Even though Living Colour is still making excellent music today, they are mostly remembered as the band who did “Cult of Personality” two decades and…
Top 50 Albums of the Decade, Part Four (Revisited)
20. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine (2005) Mad genius? Compulsive artiste? Fragile chanteuse? Misunderstood icon? All of the above? More? Whatever it is (and it could be none of this), there…