Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

If you haven’t yet heard Richard Wright, keyboardist and founder of Pink Floyd, died yesterday of cancer at the age of 65. Pink Floyd is arguably one of the ten most important bands in rock history and, though Wright’s keyboard work was amazing, he, like Ray Manzarek and John Entwistle, is sometimes forgotten because other [...]

The band is well-known but not on the same level as U2 or R.E.M. or Pearl Jam. Up until this point, they have had exactly one Top 10 hit and none of their albums have ever cracked the Top 20. As the hours draw closer to the beginning of their performance, fans start to make [...]

While driving to work last week “Interstate Love Song” by Stone Temple Pilots came on by way of a random shuffle on my iPod. It made me start to wonder why so many people ripped on the band when they first arrived, usually calling them a Pearl Jam rip-off. I will be the first to [...]

The word “cool” is a word that we all use pretty liberally on a day-to-day basis. Take me, for instance. I find this shirt to be cool, as well as this parody shirt , this book , this car , and this state . There are a multitude of other things I find to be [...]

Let me preface this question by clarifying two things: 1) the lyrics in a song lie in parallel to any painting ever made in that, although the painter has created something visually that the viewer’s mind can unequivocally identify with, or use as a reference point to something else, you will not always understand what [...]