Album A Day – Evanescence – Origin

Artist: Evanescence Album: Origin Release Date: November 4, 2000 There’s one critical difference between the Evanescence on this album and their major label debut Fallen, released in 2003. On this album co-songwriter and guitarist Ben Moody is featured rather prominently. In addition to helping write a significant amount of the music on Origin, Moody is [...]

Album A Day: Katy Hudson – Katy Hudson

Artist: Katy Hudson Album: Katy Hudson Release Date: October 23, 2001 Before Katy Perry was straddling oversized pieces of fruit on stage and kissing girls with Cherry ChapStick, she was Katy Hudson, a Christian pop singer with excellent pipes and significantly more interesting lyrics to work with. Honestly, Katy Hudson is a pleasantly refreshing album. [...]

Daughtry Takes Up Root In The Suburbs of Town

Daughtry’s self-titled debut album had plenty of room for growth. It was in large part a very good, at times great album, but didn’t always feel like the rock record you’d expect from the guy who covered the likes of Fuel and Live on his American Idol run. Still, the album flew off the shelves [...]

Album A Day: Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog

Artist: Temple of the Dog Album: Temple of the Dog Release Date: April 16, 1991 I spontaneously decided that this week would be dedicated to albums with the running thread of “Before They Were Famous”. In the case of Temple of the Dog, even though it came out after Chris Cornell had released an well-received [...]

Album A Day: Nirvana – Bleach

Artist: Nirvana Album: Bleach Release Date: June 15, 1989 Radio 104.5 in Philadelphia noted that today marked the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s first apppearance in Philly, hence the rationale behind today’s pick. Below you’ll find a performance of “About A Girl” from that show (the YouTube comments claim the show was at J.C. Dobbs on [...]

Jaydiohead Come Back for an Encore

Max Tannone, aka Minty Fresh Beats, aka the party responsible for sonically splicing Jay-Z and Radiohead to create an album by the aptly named Jaydiohead, is back. Jaydiohead: The Encore, released earlier today, is a 5-track EP that picks up where it’s predecessor left off; putting Radiohead’s instrumentals behind Jay-Z’s raps. Jay-Z’s contribution is still [...]

Album A Day: Def Leppard – Hysteria

Artist: Def Leppard Album: Hysteria Release Date: August 3, 1987 I’m gonna be honest here; I don’t get the appeal of Def Leppard or the widespread success of Hysteria. With precious few exceptions, primarily “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, this entire album wreaks of vapid, shallow, obnoxious hair metal that gives ’80s rock music a [...]

Moment of Zen:…Wha….But…Wh…Why?

One of the guys at work told this story the other day, and as he explained it, the first words that went through my brain were “Moment of Zen”. At the G8 Summit in Europe this past week a group of protesters gathered at the steps of the Piazza di Spagna in Spain to call [...]

Album A Day: Our Lady Peace – Gravity

Artist: Our Lady Peace Album: Gravity Release Date: June 18, 2002 Fact: “Innocent” is one of my favorite songs ever written, and has been since I first heard it on the late, great Y100 many years ago. Simply put, Our Lady Peace hit a home run with Gravity. Listening to it now after having heard [...]

Album A Day: Maroon 5 – Songs About Jane

Artist: Maroon 5 Album: Songs About Jane Release Date: June 25, 2002 Remember back in 2002 when Maroon 5′s ingenuity in bringing some funk and soul back to pop-rock? Remember how we applauded Maroon 5 for doing something different amdist the rank-and-file artists like John Mayer and Train. Maybe it’s because I was all of [...]