For a Swedish band whose music is about “Difficult, dull, unhealthy, passionate, mean relationships“, you could surely never tell from their music. doublePark’s lighthearted, happy sounds belie the angst beneath–in fact, you could easily be listening to American AM radio circa 1972. Word in the blogosphere is they are all the rage overseas (thanks Instrumental Analysis). I predict an invasion.
Check out “I Don’t Want to Party” (from 2006!). This is what I’m going to be singing next week when all[...]
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I was A Master!I scored 86/100 on theClassic Guitar Solo Quiz
Can you identify classic rock songs by listening to their guitar solos?
Quiz by Ibanez Guitar Blog
I love the lyrics to this song from Conor Oberst’s new self-titled CD.
For the record, I love the entire CD. Glad to see his voice lost most of its somewhat annoying wavering quality. I’ve always thought he was an extraordinary artist.
These particular tunes are on high rotation lately and probably will be for some time now: Cape Canaveral, Lenders in the Temple, I Don’t Want to Die (in a hospital), Eagle on a Pole, Moab.
Saw an eagle on[...]
Just read a post at The Chronicle (of Higher Education) about how the RIAA goes about identifying alleged music pirates. Apparently an anonymous representative of the organization stopped by the Chronicle’s offices and gave a rundown of how it’s done. I found it funny, and perfectly obvious, that they would use Limewire to identify people who share songs on the RIAA hotlist. Read more…
While sharing this article with a colleague, he tells me about a highly controversial act which just[...]
I was surfing music blogs tonight and I came across something that raised my eyebrow. Now, not much surprised me, but this is hands down the winner of the most disturbing images evoked by a band name/album name in my lifetime:
My Penis is Made of Dogshit – Satan Gets An Abortion
This can’t possibly be good. Can it?
