tunequest

so all the pearl jam i've been listening to lately is leading to a kind of renaissance for the group as far as i'm concerned. my fandom was huge in high school, basically through the release of no code. i was involved with some tape trading over the internet and regularly participated on an early mailing list dedicated to the band (which i had to telnet to ...

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Mudhoney's My Brother the Cow, I think, is a fitting bookend to the "grunge" era. And though I didn't get into Mudhoney until the waning days of the movement, in retrospect it seems as though it was the most quintessentially grunge of all the big bands to come out of Seattle during that time. Nirvana was more pop friendly; Pearl Jam leaned toward hard rock; Alice ...

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After dancing with the mainstream on dirty and (to a lesser extent) washing machine, sonic youth delivered more musically-complex album with a thousand leaves, which contains two of the great songs in the group's repetoire: 'sunday' and 'hits of sunshine' (one of their most quintessential jams). in my mind, this album marks the mellowing of the band, but it's a mellowing that comes from the confidence that ...

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every time i run across spiritualized, i enjoy it that much more. and the funny thing is, i've never really sat down and given the group the attention it deserves. like passing acquaintances from a bar scene, i've only bumped into the band's music a handful of times, despite having it in my library for nigh on five years now. it's a real shame too, because i ...

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For a brief time in early 2002, the dismemberment plan may have actually cracked its way into the much coveted position of current-favorite-band, and i think i was just reminded why: 'the ice of boston.'

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At times, i really resent owning a car. Yeah they're convenient necessary for getting around, but with the fueling and maintenance and cleaning and well, effort that goes into having one, there are times when I'd just as soon not have one. (Oh, for a more vibrant public transportation system in metro Atlanta.) Don't get me wrong. I've got a '99 saturn sc2 (aka "the cherry bomb"–it's ...

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started the day off with pearl jam's live show in katowice poland, from the group's massive bootleg dump in the year 2000. in high school, i collected a number of pearl jam shows (including one i had been to–what a treat!), but petered out after no code as my teenage devotion transformed into adultly-casual fanhood. when those bootlegs were released, i thought it would be ...

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sometime in 2001, i bought an "indie" music magazine, probably cmj or some similar trash rag. you know, i tried to subscribe to cmj once, but they only sent me bills, never any magazines, so i quickly got fed up and have not read an issue since. but that one particular issue came with a cd that had some 150 or so mp3s from as just ...

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