Welcome to a special Valentine’s Day edition of TunesDay. Today, let’s celebrate the glory of love (although, if it’s all the same to you, we’ll do it without celebrating “The Glory of […]
Tournament of Rock – Legends: the Metallica pod
UPDATE: Polls close Sunday (7/26) at midnight. As of Saturday night our seeded contestant is in trouble, as Metallica trails both Creedence Clearwater Revival and Talking Heads (and they’re just barely ahead […]
Tournament of Rock – Legends: the Van Halen pod
And away we go – what a fun TunesDay this is going to be, huh? In the first match of Tournament of Rock II: The Legends, the 12 seed in the Hollywood […]
Snappy Dream—Review: 4:13 Dream by The Cure

After The Cure’s 1989 platinum-selling breakthrough Disintegration, the band chose to get even moodier with their 1992 follow-up, Wish. Had they chosen to get a little poppier, instead, they very well might […]
TunesDay: The Lost Patrol's epic retro-futurism
Here’s how the blurb at CD Baby puts it: Cinematic ethereal, spaghetti western flavored retro-futuristic music with powerful female vocals. // A sweeping, cinematic, wide-screen journey that combines ethereal sound scapes with […]
ArtSunday: the nonlinearity of influence
“I’m interested in what motivates you, and how you understand the world.” He glanced sideways at her. “Rausch tells me you’ve written about music.” “Sixties garage bands. I started writing about them […]
TunesDay: The RNC mixtape

by Seth Michalak 1988 is the first year I can recall being cognizant of national conventions. In the intervening 20 years, never have I seen a convention that has been as much […]