all-about-musicians-and-the-people-who-help-them-make-music
The Top 100 Songs of the ’00s, #99: “If You’re Gone”
I’m not entirely into sharing anecdotes about my personal life on this site, but this song has very special significance for me. It was late spring 2000 when I fell in love, really for the first time. It was also late spring 2000 when “Mad Season by matchbox twenty” came out. I can remember sitting on MetroNorth together the night I bought “Mad Season” (on cassette!). We listened to it together going home that night, […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #36: Shag Motor Pony
SAD CAFE “Run Home Girl” b/w “Feel Like Dying” (A&M Records #2111, 1978)
What do the words “Manchester, England” mean to me? (Football hooligans and songs from Hair aside.) Probably the same things you’re thinking: Factory Records, Joy Division, Crispy Ambulance, New Order, The Smiths, The Buzzcocks, The Fall, Happy Mondays, John Cooper Clarke, Tony Wilson, 24-Hour Party People, that damn “Blue Monday” 12-inch, The Stone Roses, The Verve, The Hacienda, the whole “MADchester” proto-rave scene that […]
Sound Dialogue – Eminem
Money Mike (MM) and I (GG) went back and forth in e-mail over the weekend to discuss Eminem and his upcoming release Relapse. The conversation is below.
GG: It’s been nearly five years since we’ve seen an Eminem solo album. Relapse comes out on May 19th in the US in a very different market than when he last dropped an album. Is this thing going to sell?
MM: Well, you hit the nail on the head. The […]