For the last half century or so, the British music press has generally loved two things: music that sounds unmistakably British, and music that sounds unmistakably American. And when I was in London in the fall of 1993, just after Suede’s rise, but before Parklife and Britpop dominance, the English music press loved Grant Lee [...]

Are we still using the word “chillwave” or is that done? I mean, I guess it doesn’t really matter when you’re talking about a track and an album that came out last July and was popular with those quick-to-pounce music bloggers about, oh, three years before that. They were done with chillwave about thirty seconds [...]

Sounds like the end of summer. A new band to watch. They are working on a feature length music video (part 1 here). Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, ‘Home’ (2009)download mp3

Monday night; as I sit in my apartment I consume a sleeve of saltine crackers without fear, Fantastic Four on mute washes numbly over me from the corning of the room…plot-line virtually lost in my mind (can ‘monsters’ really find love? A man engulfed in flames seems be arguing this very question with a talking [...]