Or, more specifically, go over here. I’m watering this guy’s plants while he’s out, and I sort of made a mess of the place. A beautiful mess.

“Gay people are nice people too, man. Let’s go.” And it’s that sentiment that sends the Miracles to a gay bar, because that’s where “some of the finest women” hang out. Wait, let’s rephrase—that’s the only place, according to the (post Smokey) group, to find beautiful women in 1975 Los Angeles, faithfully [...]

For Americans, during which we’re supposed to honor our fallen veterans by getting drunk, eating fried meats, and watching our President lay a floral arrangement where dead people are. And I think that God fits in there somewhere. Flagee and Ribbon definitely do.
Matmos “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (mp3) (buy)Books “Of the Word God” [...]

Fujiya & Miyagi are to LCD Soundsystem what Jet was to The Strokes. I once got in a drunken argument (I forget who took which side, if there were sides) about something to the effect of how the Strokes could get away with totally ripping “American Girl” while Jet is pilloried for doing the [...]

By 1972, when Marc Bolan’s first and only celluloid foray Born to Boogie was released, it had become de rigeur for huge rock stars to appear in films, owing both to the firm establishment of rock in the pop-cultural mindset and the “new breed” of experimental directors given increasing chances to ply their trades. [...]

As lightening strikes, each member instantly atomises and becomes assimilated into their recording equipment, destined to play forever future rock n roll. Radical critiques of American foreign policy with a good beat that you can dance to are few and far between. When it comes to the union of politics and dance music, most [...]

The cover of Loney, Dear’s record, at right, offers all the evidence I need about lead Loney Emil Svanängen’s take on either subject under discussion in “The City, The Airport” (mp3). His approach to the unique influence of metropolitan areas and the people that populate them (”lotta people doing things they don’t wanna do”) [...]

From the first time I heard the album version of this song, I imagined a video for it based on the surreal opening sequence from 8 1/2, when Guido imagines himself floating above that frozen traffic jam. Then I realized that R.E.M. had already ripped it off, to a degree, in the video for [...]

Mike Patton has made an entire career on an irascible refusal to do anything the same for any length of time. Over the course of three records, Mr. Bungle went from psych-circus-metal to ambient electro-weirdness to Brian Wilson-on-a-meth-binge. He took Faith No More from a skate-metal band through the best all-time Faith No [...]

I’m of the opinion, brought to the fore during the pan-Internet conversations of the past months, that embracing one’s inner poptimist (or anti-rockist) is akin to a dude finally being able to act all kissy-kissy with his girlfriend in front of his buddies, without fear of macho reprisal. It’s a quite liberatiing activity, and one [...]