I stayed reluctant post-Obliterati, because it just fit too well. I still haven't heard their last one- I've grabbed it every time I've gone to Amoeba,, but when I would do my "what am I REALLY buying" it would never make the final cut. I think my fears were essentially what this review is: pretty good, but..
I will…

Ha! Someone on AV Club knows Buddyhead!
When you started posting the Brokencyde stuff on a thread last week, all I could think of was Buddyhead 2.0's unveiling of this wretched cultural underbelly! I guess I had already blocked it out..
My generation had JudJud and Reggie and the Full Effect, but GOOD GOSHE this was…

Ha! Someone on AV Club knows Buddyhead!
When you started posting the Brokencyde stuff on a thread last week, all I could think of was Buddyhead 2.0's unveiling of this wretched cultural underbelly! I guess I had already blocked it out..
My generation had JudJud and Reggie and the Full Effect, but GOOD GOSHE this was…

I feel you on the Replacements- they're like the 80's version of Supertramp, in that folks were ALWAYS saying you had to listen to them. I've become quite fond of their early stuff, but most of the post Hootenanny sounds like the GooGooDolls and it's tough to unpack that alt-rock shame-shell and savor the meaty…

I feel you on the Replacements- they're like the 80's version of Supertramp, in that folks were ALWAYS saying you had to listen to them. I've become quite fond of their early stuff, but most of the post Hootenanny sounds like the GooGooDolls and it's tough to unpack that alt-rock shame-shell and savor the meaty…

Us Emo creeps have congregated before- I remember a nostalgia-pile-on when Braid streamed their last ep here! I WAS surprised to see Marah posting this instead of Kyle..

Us Emo creeps have congregated before- I remember a nostalgia-pile-on when Braid streamed their last ep here! I WAS surprised to see Marah posting this instead of Kyle..

One of my favorite books! It can be exhilirating and exhausting getting through the Miles sometimes, especially once the book hits the 70's. Still, such salty prose dropping such amusing crumbs about some of the most brilliant musicians..nowhere else would you get a phrase like "Dexter Gordon looked cleaner than a…

One of my favorite books! It can be exhilirating and exhausting getting through the Miles sometimes, especially once the book hits the 70's. Still, such salty prose dropping such amusing crumbs about some of the most brilliant musicians..nowhere else would you get a phrase like "Dexter Gordon looked cleaner than a…

Isn't that the way it goes? Anytime I see a review that makes me jump, there are maybe six reasonable discussions going on.
I didn't know this was coming out but I'm definitely interested. A couple years ago I started going to Jerry Beck's Animation Tuesday's at Cinefamily, and I feel like he's explicitly spread the…

Isn't that the way it goes? Anytime I see a review that makes me jump, there are maybe six reasonable discussions going on.
I didn't know this was coming out but I'm definitely interested. A couple years ago I started going to Jerry Beck's Animation Tuesday's at Cinefamily, and I feel like he's explicitly spread the…

I liked Wind's Poem, but I know what you mean. He was lost for awhile after Mount Eerie, so it was nice for him to hone in on something, but I'm more interested in hearing him synthesize his love of those dynamics into something else. Seeing him play Wind's Poem at UCI with Tara Jane O'Neil was sweet though- that…

I liked Wind's Poem, but I know what you mean. He was lost for awhile after Mount Eerie, so it was nice for him to hone in on something, but I'm more interested in hearing him synthesize his love of those dynamics into something else. Seeing him play Wind's Poem at UCI with Tara Jane O'Neil was sweet though- that…

It's not a coolness thing. It's the romanticism I miss. Their first two albums are pure lovesick foolishness. Their next two albums are wasted youth, anomie etc. Their next two alternated between the two. THEN came the politics, the sociology, the pomp. That's what I can't get behind.

Off make me feel like I'm not that punk anymore. I really liked all of the bands that those guys were in before..I like everything Pettibon blesses with his art! But alas, I just can't honestly enjoy it.
But then I like My War over any of the Keith Morris stuff, so take from that what you will.

Ah-Greed!

Insomniac was like their reaction to post-Dookie saturation: We're still punk! We can play Jaded!

Dookie is a sugar sweet blast. Nimrod was their only eclectic album. Warning was sort of a forced/failed eclecticism. They still played their 3 chord Bread and Butter with a different, cleaner distortion (Castaway) and I wanted more steps away from the center, like Nimrod.
Still, in the wake of everything that's come…

I had an erection… (live version ftw)

If they're releasing their 5th Green Day 3.0 album, count me out. I remember catching them pre-American Idiot, doing an outdoor at the Jimmy Kimmel show- 'Hey, they sound like the Who now. They're hamming it up more than ever! Interesting." Little did I know this 20 minute concert would come to define the next 8 years…