Be It Music Or Writing, Vulnerability Is What Connects Us
The best art is when vulnerability meets passion. The music of the early 90s displayed that formula and the rest, as they say, is history.
Nearly 12,000 Days After Its 1st Single, Pearl Jam Sounds As Strong As Ever On Its Latest Release, "Dark Matter"
(Photo Credit - Pearl Jam Facebook Cover) I will go out on a limb and say most musicians would bet against the idea of being around long...
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 -...
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,...
Toadies Are Alive And Well
Fort Worth rock veterans owned the crowd at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey Photo credit - Michael Kravetsky/Watermrk Studios...
A Superstar Is Born
Dave Grohl debuts with Nirvana 32 years ago today No one could've predicted that a skinny punk rock drummer from the Washington D.C....
Getting Better With Age
R.E.M.'s 1992 album Automatic For The People still sounds amazing 30 years later Automatic For The People was released in the United...
East To West And Back Again
Adam Silvestri of Radiator King rocks the East Coast again "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the...
Remember This Song?
Volume I - 1991 An exclusive Generation Riff look at a song you know, possibly love, but may have forgotten about Welcome back to another...
Did U2 Influence 90s Music? I'm Not So Sure
As successful as U2 is, and just as The Joshua Tree turns 35, they didn't play much of a role in defining the new sounds emerging from...
That Sound In Your Soul Is The Voice Of Mark Lanegan
The prolific pioneer of grunge and alternative music died suddenly at the age of 57 Photo credit Steven Friederich Music is the greatest...
We Will Always Have The Music
Remembering Nirvana's Kurt Cobain on what would've been his 55th birthday "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old" are...
SAP By Alice In Chains Defined The Feel Of A Generation
The 1992 release proved that lighter sounds and hushed tones can punch harder than anyone thought Throughout the course of history, it's...
Jar Of Flies By Alice In Chains Proves That Darkness And Isolation Can Be Beautiful
The mood and feel of 90s rock music was cemented by this 1994 classic EP Jar of Flies EP Cover Music was always something I felt more...
40 Years Of "We Got The Beat" And The Influence The Go-Go's Had On 90s Music
Following up my last post about female artists in the 90s, I had to write a piece about The Go-Go's today. This is a site about 90s music...
30 Years Of Live's Mental Jewelry
As with most people, musicians tend to take it easy at the end of the calendar year as they contemplate how to attack the upcoming one....
