I seem to discover lots of news bands that I like every year, and since this particular day of the challenge doesn’t ask me to pick my favorite – just a band […]
DJ Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: 30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 27 – a song you think would be an effective instrument of torture
It seems that America now officially believes in torture as a primary tool of investigation. And back in 2008, I did a little story on how, believe it or not, we are […]
Another heart has made the trade: 30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 26 – a song by a band or artist you'd like to have dinner with
We’re going in a slightly different direction today. I mean, for a variety of artistic and intellectual reasons I’d love to have dinner with the greatest bands ever – The Fabs, The […]
Ooh la la: 30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 24 – a song by the sexiest artist you know
So much of popular music is about sex and nothing else, and we have seen more sexcess than we probably know how to process. Perhaps so much that we occasionally grow numb […]
I just don't get it: 30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 22 – a song by the most overrated band or artist you can think of
The guy can’t sing (phrasing, anyone?) He can’t write songs. And while I’ve heard guitarists defend him, I’ve personally never seen or heard him play anything that strikes me as being more […]
Meanwhile, American Idol is sucking your brains out like a zombie apocalypse: 30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 21 – a song by a band or artist that has never achieved the level of fame they deserve
Here’s one I’ve been waiting on. Few things reveal more about a society than its music. Plato explained that when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state change with […]
So lonesome I could fly: 30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 20 – a song that could easily have been written about your life
I’ve always felt strongly attuned to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous short story, “Ethan Brand.” The title character forsakes his life to search the world for the unpardonable sin. He finds it. It ends […]
Hot Rod Robin: 30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 19 – a song you used to love, but that you have now outgrown
When we’re kids we like the damnedest things, don’t we? There was a moment, I guess during the summer of 1972, when my two favorite songs were the Jackson 5’s “Rockin’ Robin”…
30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 18 – a song that makes you think of a place you've never been
So many places I haven’t been, so many places I want to go, so many songs about places. But I guess the place I haven’t been that I want to see the […]
How to win a meme, or how I avoided working this Spring but still managed to get all riled up
By Jennie Ver Steeg I like Sam, of Dr. Slammy fame. Let me be clear on that, I am more likely to at least entertain the notions Sam floats out here than […]
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