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The Vines: Sun Child
In the early 2000’s, The Vines, along with fellow contemporaries such as The Strokes, The Hives, The White Stripes are regarded as bringing back Rock music to the mainstream audience, after the period of 90’s alternative and grunge music that plagued the airwaves. Much of The Vines early work has been compared to [...]
Uncle Tupelo: We’ve Been Had
hat is this – Led Zeppelin goes country? The bass in this song is strikingly familiar to the bass line of Zeppelin’s “House of the Holy”, and that is probably why I was able to listen beyond the first minute of this alt-country-rock song from Uncle Tupelo. Uncle Tupelo are not that [...]
R.E.M.: Orange Crush
range Crush. That’s right, the Orange are going to crush Pitt today in their Big East College Hoops match-up, and I will be at the game to witness this. And with the Orangemen ranked 5th in the country and off to a perfect start to the season, would anybody dare disagree with [...]
Elbow – Mirrorball
Great version of a great tune! Elbow are an alternative rock band that hail from Manchester in the UK, and had limited commercial success over their first three album releases when compared to their peers (Muse, Feeder, Radiohead, Coldplay, Doves, Keane). Their most recent album release, “The Seldom Seen Kid”, released in 2008, [...]
Weezer: Can’t Stop Partying
Weezer are the Peter Pan of power-pop. Their latest album released this week is full of the subject matter that could easily have been heard on Weezer’s earlier work. This is no Blue Album, but at least it’s a turn in the right direction.
Can’t stop partying has to be one of the [...]
Radiohead: Anyone Can Play Guitar
Anyone Can Play Guitar was Radiohead’s second single, and the first to show a modest amount of success in the charts. For an unknown reason, this song became stuck in my head the other day, and I sttill haven’t shaken it out of there, the reason why it appears in front of your eyes [...]
Coldplay: Life in Technicolor ii
This track was intended to feature on Coldplay recent “Viva La Vida” album, but Coldplay decided against it, turning to a shorter instrumental version. They didn’t want such a stand out track on their album… don’t ask me why. Instead, this was released as a single and the video featured the debut of the Coldplay [...]
