The first time I heard this song was at a listening station in at a Border’s store. I’d never heard of Allison Moorer (or of her and her sister Shelby Lynne’s startling family background) before then, and being that her music was stocked in the country section, I didn’t really think I’d like her all that much, but the Borders blurb suggested this track from her sophomore album The Hardest Part and so […]
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 […]
He’s the most popular kid in the school. He’s the star of the football team, a champion wrestler and a stunt bicyclist. He rules the basketball court. He rules the soccer field. He’s got the hottest date (with the longest index finger) for the prom and when it comes to breakdancing – no one can touch him. He’s got hair like Marshall Mathers, and the swagga to match. He’s […]