All Things To All People
Music reviews
Maybe it’s me, but I don’t really understand what motivates a band with a sense of humor to stop making fun music. The Spudmonsters first album is loaded with amusing and fun numbers like “Garbage Day,” and “Repo Man.” Now, after over…
Cover of Full Circle [Vinyl] It’s a story older than Rock ‘n’ Roll itself. A band makes their bones around a charismatic frontman. Maybe he writes the songs. Maybe he just sings them. In either case, he’s the face of the group,…
Cover of Seven Days in Sammystown It’s a story older than Rock ‘n’ Roll itself. A band makes their bones around a charismatic frontman. Maybe he writes the songs. Maybe he just sings them. In either case, he’s the face of the…
It’s a story older than Rock ‘n’ Roll itself. A band makes their bones around a charismatic frontman. Maybe he writes the songs. Maybe he just sings them. In either case, he’s the face of the group, the one the people come…
It may be no coincidence that Yes’s prodigal guitarist Steve Howe bears an uncanny resemblance to The Crypt Keeper. After all, Yes is one of those bands that refuses to die. Every time it stops, someone manages to reanimate the corpse. Over…
I want to like this album more. This album makes me want to like it more. Join Us is an excitable album. It jumps up, bounces around the room, and says, “Hey! Look what I can do! I’m everything you could possibly…
Cover of English Garden Is it really a trivia question when everyone and their grandmother knows the answer? If the question is “What was the first video played on MTV?” I would have to say the answer is no.[1] Babies fresh from the…
Image via Wikipedia Rev. Syung Myung Me: And thus, the Sparks Project draws to a close. Or at least a nap that’ll probably be a year or two long, depending on when there’s a new Sparks album. Admittedly, if I had my…
Image via Wikipedia As a radio guy, it’s kind of strange that I’m not into podcasts. I don’t know why, I’m just not. But there is one that I do listen to every episode: The They Might Be Giants Podcast. In fact,…
Cover of Seduction Of inmar Bergman [Vinyl] Who don’t love Sparks? I suppose the folks who don’t know who Sparks are might not love Sparks, but that’s only because of plum ignorance. But REST EASY, reader — we’re here to set you…