Scandinavia is an area in northern Europe,
consisting of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Scandinavia is also weirdly rocking. Get your Scantron, your non-ironic belief in elves and trolls, and let’s do this.
1) Parson Sound wrote the 20-minute “From Tunis To India in Fullmoon(on Testosterone)” because ______________________. Continue reading “Rock Test: Scandinavia Edition”
When?
Gongs started appearing in the annals of Chinese history around 500 AD; the Northern Wei dynasty, in an act of Sinicization, used the gong in their dealings with their northern Manchurian neighbors to let them know that they were not at all talented and to get off the stage. Continue reading “Boring, Boring Rock Arsenal: The Gong”
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What comes to mind when you think, “Christian musician?” Take the Double-Aught Spool test with that phrase for a second. Done? Ok. Continue reading “Come Clean”
This is brilliant; an album made up of words found in a lost spiral notebook. You should pay a little bit, but you can stream it for free. Also: the spirit of Buttsex lives. Word, word, Alabama word. http://satellitehigh.bandcamp.com/
When?
1974 was when the first production models were shipped, and it seems that it will be around for tens of thousands of years.
Who?
Invented by Emmett Chapman, who looks exactly what you think a 70’s jazz guitarist looks like. Exactly. Continue reading “Boring, Boring Rock Arsenal: The Chapman Stick”
Alicia Keys has told MTV that she’s excited about doing the Star-Spangled Banner “her way” during this year’s Super Bowl. I’ve mentioned my opinion on this sort of thing before. Still, here are a few things I would rather have done in a deep-felt, personal, and unique way: Paula Deen’s version of a home enema […]
I normally slag on the Grammys around this time of year. It’s always a well-deserved slagging.
The Grammys are usually the standard bearer of out-of-touchness, but in the two years I’ve been writing this blog the Grammy’s more compelling story lines actually played out to, according to my tastes, a victorious result. When the nominees for 2013 came out, I was excited to see what match-ups might pit an underdog against a platinum-selling artist, or a genre-out-of-water race for one of the bigger awards… but not a lot of that this year. Hardly anything worth getting worked up for at all. Oh, I’ll still watch–something entertaining, or at least entertainingly disastrous, will happen. Hopefully by/to Kanye West.
The match-ups suck, but there are some albums that I like that are nominated. Not my two favorite ones(later…), but at least five good ones. These five, in fact. Continue reading “Gimmie Five: 2013 Grammy-Nominated Albums”
This happened, but I don’t care that much about Jerry Cantrell. Also: fuck Nickelback. __________________________________________________ But this? For real? Good Lord, guys, you can’t do this to me… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHutGIIGtbM
1. There was a Magic Summer once, one that only exists as a pastiche in my head and not one with a linear start to finish. A summer that, in fairness, may be a stretch of two or three summers in a row put together. But to be sure, it was a magical time, and, to be doubly sure, Cheap Trick was the shit. Continue reading “Omoroi Koto(With Apologies To Robert Frost)”
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