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The Tuesday Morning Awesome: Spectrum “How You Satisfy Me” (1991)
In one of the more spectacular acts of musical nuclear fission, the two personalities at the core of the seminal shoegazing outfit known as Spacemen 3 split from the group in the early 90s, with singer-guitarist Jason Pierce forming the band Spiritualized, the better to document his adventures in amateur pharmacology through ambient garage rock, gospel choirs and all manner of decadent-pretending-at-profound bombast – hitting pay dirt when the title track of his monumental 1998 […]
The Wednesday Night Awesome: John Farnham “Age of Reason” (1988)
Johnny Farnham was an Australian teen idol and television actor throughout the 60s and 70s. In the early 80s, he recorded an album with producer and Little River Band principal Graeham Goble. When lead singer Glenn Shorrock left that group, Goble recruited John Farnham to be his replacement. The arrangement was unhappy and short-lived. After years of artistic marginalization, Farnham’s star was finally back on the rise and he felt himself […]
Colbie Caillat and the Virtues of Unspectacular Niceness
Today, I was listening to my iPod at my desk and my next-cube-neighbor overheard the song that was playing – you know: that one that goes, “it starts at my toes and it twinkles my nose”, or whatever it is she says, doesn’t really matter – and asked me what the name of that singer was. I was like, oh that’s Colbie Caillat. And she was like, oh yeah, that’s right. […]