90 For The 90s
The blog series created by Rob Janicke discussing a bunch of albums from the 1990s for you to argue with him about Album #3 Public Enemy...
90 For The 90s
The blog series created by Rob Janicke discussing a bunch of albums from the 1990s for you to argue with him about Album #2 Fugazi -...
Lollapalooza...The Early Days
A personal account of one of the biggest music festivals in the world Pearl Jam in 1992 at Lollapalooza II in Waterloo Village, NJ....
The Hypnogogue: The Church’s Ghost in the Machine
By Robert Dean Lurie I. Here comes the future according to me The Church’s The Hypnogogue is weird, wonderful, and relentlessly...
When Sound Evokes Memory
Science suggests music can bring back memories and my soul agrees I recently heard a song off of the 1995 album Above by the short-lived...
Precursor To Immortality
Both a treasure map of things to come and a sometimes disjointed debut album, Radiohead released Pablo Honey 30 years ago I've always...
Kurt Cobain Would Have Turned 56 On February 20, 2023
Celebrating the life of one of the most unlikely cultural icons Photo credit - Charles Peterson When you reach my age (50 is just a few...
Writing a Book is Hard, but Enjoying the Process is Easy
It's fitting that as I write this blog I've got the odd-timed, semi-psychedelic "Head Down" off of Soundgarden's 1994 release,...
Improvisational Chaos & Disorder
The incomparable Frank Zappa left the world 29 years ago today and took with him a large swath of the cool, the weird, and the muddle...
29 Years Of Wu
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the debut album of Hip-Hop pioneers, Wu-Tang Clan, continues to influence nearly three decades after its...
Slacker: 1991, Teen Spirit Angst, and the Generation It Created
A behind-the-scenes look at this crazy journey as I write my first book For those of you who've known me since the late 80s/early 90s,...
Generation Riff - The Podcast
We started with the Abandoned Albums podcast, added Generation Riff to the fold, and are plotting even more future excitement! Generation...
Let The Music Jump Off The Page
Reading, writing, and discussing music books are an underrated part of music fandom There's something about the written word, no matter...
If Music Is Life, Drums Are Its Heartbeat
Author S.W. Lauden explores the history and importance of punk rock drummers in his latest book, FORBIDDEN BEAT: Perspectives On Punk...
