Tag Archives: Battles

Who Got Ectoplasm On My Trumpet?

I hope you all had a relaxing Monday, because yesterday’s blog activities, while tranquil and beauteous, failed to keep the peace and instill the quiet in my day. The crack of thunder, the clash of personalities and financial insecurities could give fuckall about pretty songs so they all ganged up to make my Monday […]

We Don’t Dance We Just Listen to Pants and Do the Blog-a-Way

Sometimes the sheer volume (and by volume I mean number not loudness) of music that passes through my clutches (and my eardrums) is overwhelming. I came face to face with the intimidating amount of music I deal with this “holiday” weekend, which I spent cataloging new arrivals that had piled up around my desk, […]

“Turn off that noise!” © Your Dad

One decades-old way that people have written-off music they don’t like, don’t understand, or don’t identify with is to describe it as “nothing but noise.” From Rock’n’Roll in the ’50s, to Rap in the ’80s, this has been the guilt-free method of dismissal favored by the closed-minded. But little did the pioneers of the “nothing […]