When the Wu-Tang Clan released their debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993, something strange happened. No one quite knew what it was, but it was without a doubt something important, something groundbreaking, and something that would most certainly stand the test of time. The world had never seen a force like the […]
What do you get when you combine musical technicality with loud sing-a-long choruses? Well, it would sound a little bit like Riley, a local Dayton band consisting of Eric Bluebaum, Joey Kirby, Colin Pauley, and Chris Warman. Although most of the guys have played together before, the four piece regrouped and refocused in February 2012, […]
The Velvet Underground was a band that was always trying to find itself. The collective figures, led most prominently by Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker, were always searching for a distinct, signature sound, and with each new album it looked as if they were trying something different. The band’s debut, The […]
After listening to the first 25 seconds of Milk Man, Deerhoof’s 2004 release, it sounds as if this is going to be their most commercial-oriented album yet. That is, until the rest of the band comes in to shatter that belief into tiny little pieces. In a sense though, it’s true. Never before has Deerhoof relied so heavily on melody […]
