Thank You, Vin Scelsa
Here is a stereo set, bought at Korvettes, overheated and smelling gently of warm plastic. It sits on a…
April 1, 2015-
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The Birth of Hardcore Punk In New York City (Part 2)
The End of the Beginning (Or, Bitte, Kann ich haben eine Fribble?) As discussed in Part 1, the first…
March 13, 2015 -
TBT: Neil Sedaka, "Stairway to Heaven"
Long before there was Led Zeppelin, even before there were Yardbirds, there was Neil Sedaka. Brooklyn born and raised (his father was a cab driver) and trained to play classical piano in Julliard’s preparatory school program, Sedaka found his true love…
March 12, 2015
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The Birth of Hardcore Punk In New York City
Part 1: The Beginning and Before (i.e., Sting = A Tool) For some reason, there seems to be a…
March 11, 2015 -
I Officially Give Up and do that whole Band/Letters in Your Name thing, creating an excuse to talk about Impaled Nazarene and Weinstein Dorm.
You have surely noticed that the Internet is absolutely lousy with these lists where someone assigns a band to…
March 2, 2015 -
Saturday Night Live Turns 40; Tim’s Visits to the Show Turn 38.
The fairly unspectacular memories that follow are dedicated to Alan Zweibel, who was inordinately kind to a 14-year old…
February 24, 2015 -
Remix: Is Music Ready For The Apocalypse?
Listen, no person, no matter how much they froth with opinions, should be above an occasional mea culpa, and…
February 23, 2015 -
Don’t Know Much About History: The 10 Albums Kanye West Must Listen to Before He Makes a Bigger Fool of Himself
Before I address the fuckery of Mr. Kanye West, I want to avow the following: America, I am a…
February 18, 2015 -
Die Toten Hosen: The World’s Biggest Punk Rock Band
I have just learned of the death of Jochen Hülder, who passed about three weeks ago. I ask for…
February 5, 2015 -
Van Halen Save the ’70s
I’ve been thinking about the 1970s…specifically, about how much they sucked. If you are too young to have truly…
February 4, 2015