Via the Spectrum Road with Vernon Reid
Sean MurphyListening to Vernon Reid speak is like listening to Vernon Reid play the guitar: you need both ears and all your mind to keep up. Ideas flow eagerly, thoughts within…
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…
We Shall Overcome
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” –Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) *This should be…
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…
14 Songs For Turning 41
To know the man, get to know his music. (Or, to paraphrase Al Pacino in Serpico, "If you love the man's music, you have to love the man!") There are…
Top 50 Albums of the Decade, Part One (Revisited)
Facebook friends, Bloggers, Strangers, lend me your ears; I come to bury the last decade, not to praise it. Actually, I do want to praise it, but I first must…
Top 50 Albums of the Decade, Part One
Facebook friends, Bloggers, Strangers, lend me your ears; I come to bury the last decade, not to praise it. Actually, I do want to praise it, but I first must…
Heart Full of Soul: The Return of Living Colour
The rumors of Living Colour’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. They are back, but perhaps more to the point, they were never really gone. The Chair in the Doorway, their…
Information Overload: A User’s Guide
Today is Information Overload Awareness Day Information Overload Awareness Day (www.informationoverloadday.com) is a…