The Bean may have just vomited in her mouth a little bit. Klaus Meine may be insanely short. The outfits the band wore 20 years ago look out of place anywhere outside the Blue Oyster Bar (Google it). I care not. If you were in your late teens or early twenties in 1991, then you [...]
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Cornershop is one my most beloved bands and it’s been far too long since we last heard from them. In honor of their first full-length album in seven (7!) years (Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast, out on July 27th), have yourself a listen to my very favorite Cornershop jam, “Topknot”.
Like most Cornershop releases, “Topknot” [...]
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About a month ago, while watching a documentary I think was called Folk America on BBC4, I decided I’d actually follow up on something I’ve considered on and off for quite some time – learn to play the banjo. While I was still in the cooling off stage prior to ordering (the week or so [...]
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The beginning of the noughties saw the emergence of what was called the ‘New Rock Revolution’ or the ‘Garage Rock Revival’. Whatever it was called it was an exciting time that put mostly unknown sixties influenced garage rock bands in the spotlight. They repackaged the old sound and spirit of proto-punk bands in a new [...]
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While music television and radio were dominated by the sounds of Technotronic, Lenny Kravitz, Madonna, Soul II Soul, Milli Vanilli, The B-52s and The The among others – and I was exiting The U2 Phase and settling into my now life-long Hip Hop Phase – a band from Washington, D.C. packaged up the output from [...]
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