Tag Archives: The Clash

“I Just Wanna Stay In the Garage All Night”

How many people who live in walk-up apartments have a garage? I know I don’t have one! Come to think of it, I can’t recall ever having a garage! Even during times when my family owned an automobile we never had a garage. And the people I’ve known who were members […]

Short Piers and Space Travelers

Last week one of my absolute favorite bands in the world — Athens, Georgia-based Indie-Pop sextet of Montreal — released “Id Engager,” the first single from their forthcoming ninth full-length album Skeletal Lamping. That album, which doesn’t hit stores until October 7th, is one of, if not the most anticipated release of the year […]

Mixtapes I Don’t Hate: DLake, Diplo & Santogold and KiD CuDi

When I started slipping posts about mixtapes into my blog repertoire last year I felt it necessary to point out that I had been turned off by the whole mixtape subculture for a number of years. Regardless of my reasons (and if you really want to know what they were, you can go back […]