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First Look: Maxwell’s “Pretty Wings”
Wanna make any female R&B fan over the age of 30 wet herself?
Maxwell’s back, y’all.
After an eight (!) year absence, the R&B lothario has finally returned. His long-awaited “Black Summers’ Night” project finally has not only a July release date, but actual music attached to it. “Pretty Wings” took a couple of listens for me to appreciate, but I totally get it now. The whole woman-levitating-off-the-bed thing? That I don’t get so much. But it […]
The Return of Creed: Did Anyone Ask for This??
Lordy, who asked for the late Nineties to return so quickly? First, we got the news that a Limp Bizkit (or limpbizkit?) reunion was on the horizon. Now, we’ve been smacked with a doozy: Creed is getting back together for a summer tour. If you remember, Creed’s brand of post-grunge (with an extra religious twist!) made them one of the biggest selling bands of the late Nineties and early 00s. They split up […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #33: Self-Dressed Man
SOCIAL DISTORTION “Cold Feelings” b/w “Bad Luck (Live Acoustic)” (Epic Records #ES7- 4568, white-label promo, 1992)
Since there’s a million people out there who know more about Social D than I do, I’ll keep this brief. My first exposure to L.A. punk stalwart Mike Ness and his brilliant Johnny-Cash-meets-The-Clash alchemy was ’81’s “1945” from the 2nd installment of Posh Boy’s Rodney On The ROQ series, which my high school accomplice Beaker and I spun endlessly in his bedroom while […]