Yesterday’s This Addiction, the seventh studio album from the trio, finds the band longing to recreate the appealing, straightforward punk rock songs that earned them their fan base in the beginning. The album is following their last two releases, Crimson and Agony & Irony, which were less punk rock sounding and more pop. Although This Addiction is a step forward from the, in my opinion, dull Agony & Irony, it still lacks the magic that the earlier records possessed.
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February 8, 2010 | Posted in
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These bands together comprise the new indie genre phenomenon know as Chillwave. For those of you not familiar with the genre asking “WTF is Chillwave?” – Wikipedia describes it as being “characterized by heavy use of synthesizers, downtempo disco beats, looping, sampling, and heavily filtered vocals with simple melodic lines.” Honestly, I couldn’t give a much better description myself – the genre uses mainly synthetic instruments and stresses melody and complex arrangements. However, the overall vibe is one of relaxation. Essentially, Chillwave feels like one is sunbathing in the hallucinogenic sun-rays of a star in some distant and deranged galaxy.
In a “tell-all” interview with MLB Network’s Bob Costas, McGwire revealed little to no information about his past use of PEDs, although he did admit to using them. McGwire told Costas: “I wish I had never touched steroids. It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played during the steroid era.” McGwire did, however, provide a timeline for his steroid use. According to McGwire, he began using PEDs during the 1989/1990 offseason as well as off and on throughout the 1990s, including during the 1998 season.
For me The Catcher in the Rye is a piece of literature that is both comforting and unsettling. It feels to the reader as though they are not by themselves – Holden represents the countless people in the world who feel as though they are held down or alone. On the other hand, “The Catcher” pinpointed the word I had been looking for at that time in my adolescence to describe the people with which I had made contact. Holden taught me they were phonies. He taught me never to be a phony, but he also taught me that there was nothing I could do about it. No one could ever catch all those kids running through the rye, and so all I could hope to do was to never get too close to that cliff that Holden talked about.
However, the more I think about it, I don’t think this is really the case – it’s just that there is a certain underlying psychology in celebrating one’s birthday. How many times have you or someone you know been depressed or felt under-appreciated? Your birthday essentially functions as a day where you surround yourself with friends, family, and loved ones so that these feelings are impossible to manifest. Everyone has gathered to celebrate your birthday; to show that they care for you and to boost your mood. People give you gifts, cards and phone calls to remind you that you are important to them.
February 6, 2010 | Posted in
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Aside from being full of me acting like this snow storm is the apocalypse (I insisted on going to North and spending $20 to “make it through the weekend”), today was full of some really cool music news. On my old blog, which can be found at www.nclrmusic.blogspot.com, when I had days where there was just a lot of this really cool music news, I used to post it in bullet-point form for my readers to get through quickly. I think that’s the easiest way to share these things. So here it is, you’re music headlines for 2/5/10:
Because of this change in music and the way listeners consume music, the music industry is now at a crossroads. They are now forced into deciding whether it should give up on trying to make any money off of recorded music, or crusade against illegal downloads and fight a war that is seemingly as endless and useless as the war on drugs or the War on Terror. I believe that if illegal downloading isn’t stopped soon, music will become entirely free, and bands will become a thing of the past, replaced by machines reproducing sampled sounds.
With a new round board, plastic replacements for all the old metal placement pieces, and an electronic banking system, die-hard fans of the traditional Monopoly format are not going to be very pleased. However, is that necessarily a bad thing?
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