Getting By With A Little Help From My Friends…or Loyal Readers At Least

Sorry to bungle up peoples RSS feeds and the like with rapid fire posts, but needed to get this one off. The Album A Day will have been posted by the time this goes up, so read this and then scroll down a bit to get to that one. I’m calling upon my readers, both [...]

Album A Day: Radiohead – OK Computer

Apologies on the lateness of this posting, but the morning was hectic, culminating in me getting the rather impressive looking laptop from whence I am typing this update. But on to the meat of the entry. Most of the words I could type about the sheer brilliance of OK Computer have already been said time [...]

Album A Day: Radiohead – The Bends

I have all of Radiohead’s albums on my computer digitally, but only three of them on CD. I aim to get them all on disc in the near future. This is mostly because I find Radiohead infinitely more enjoyable when I have Thom Yorke’s lyrics in front of me as I listen. Not so much [...]

Happy Birthday Mark Hoppus

The title pretty much says it all. Today is Blink 182 bassist and +44 singer Mark Hoppus’s 37th birthday. 2009′s looking to be a good year for Hoppus, since his big cash cow Blink 182 is going on a reunion tour and releasing an album this year, and rumors of a solo album are still [...]

Album A Day: Radiohead – Pablo Honey

And so Radiohead week begins. The hardcore Radiohead fans reading this are probably rolling their eyes and drafting their overly pretentious comment about how I can’t really like the band that much if I consider their debut album a good record. To those pretentious folks, go away. Pablo Honey is as valid a Radiohead album [...]

Quite Possibly The Worst Thing The Music Industry Will Give Us in 2009

Loyal readers, I come to you tonight because music has a problem right now. I speak not of plummetting skyrocketing ticket sales, the slow death of CDs, or even the forthcoming Lil Wayne rock album. No, all of these problems are dwarfed at the moment by an even bigger threat to popular music and its [...]

Album A Day: Radiohead – My Iron Lung EP

Count this as a precursor to the theme for next week’s Album A Day run. Found this Australian import for 5 bucks at the local used music store. Rock on. After scoring humongous success with “Creep”, Radiohead wanted only to get the hell away from that fame and explore other sonic avenues. “My Iron Lung” [...]

Moment of Zen: For All The Math Geeks Out There

Idolator posted this the other day, but what with it being 3/14 I feel like this is a more appropriate time to do this. Someone created a program in which you can assign the digits 0 through 9 a musical note, and then create a song by extending pi out to 10000 digits.Depending on whether [...]

Clearing Out The Inbox

With spring break a mere 12 hours away for me, and thus a week for me to unwind, chill out, and find a job for the summer on the horizon, I figured now is a good time to take a look at some of the music I get sent by all manner of people. How [...]

Album A Day: Incubus – Make Yourself

Incubus never really got better than this album. They came close on A Crow Left of the Murder…, but on their commercial breakthrough Incubus have both musical proficiency and a reason to be pissed off. That reason appears to be their own, but between the fuck-you chorus of “Pardon Me” and the call to arms [...]