tunequest

For nearly as long as there's been an Internet, fans have been contributing to the nine inch nails experience. There's something about the music that seems to inspire a devotional following (probably has to do with expressions of angst, contempt and alienation wrapped appealing pop sensibilities). Youthful rebelliousness and antiestablishmentism runs deep through both camps. Indeed, the rise of nin and the net seems to have coincided perfectly with ...

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Something odd happened to me the other day while listening to my iPod. I was enjoying a bootlegged version of Jerry Goldsmith's magnum opus, the score to the first Star Trek motion picture. One of the tracks is raw recording session featuring two takes of the now-famous main title. The theme was just getting going when, at the 1:26 mark, it just stopped playing. The music went silent and the ...

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Back before all this digital music and internet mumbo jumbo, finding a live recording of a band's performance was a tricky proposition. You basically had to stumble upon one by knowing someone who was in a bootlegging circle and was willing to make a cassette copy (leaving you with a reduced quality duplicate). Alternately, you could have searched the racks at used music stores to find a quasi-legal, imported ...

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Tortoise at the Independent Originally uploaded by Luiza. Whereas my previous iPod, a 3rd generation model, could not display album art, my new one, of course can. So I spent a portion of my morning going through my library, searching for albums that were missing their covers. During the process, I ran into a couple live shows that, since they aren't formally-released albums, obviously don't have album covers. Specifically, I had a ...

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It's a bit of a cosmic coincidence that I happen to be on a huge Ratatat kick right now and a new Ratatat bootleg has happened to suddenly surface around the net. It's titled 9 Beats and is apparently a rare look at the band's early/demo work. How early? It doesn't say, but it probably pre-dates their 2004 debut. The tracks on the album aren't songs per se. They're mostly ...

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On the evening of March 9, 1994 I attended my first and only Pearl Jam concert at the Pensacola Civic Center in, you guessed it, Pensacola Florida (where PJ guitarist Mike McCready happens to have been born). I was a freshman in high school at the scampy young age of 15 and, having just discovered the full breadth of grunge six months before, I reveled in the notion that ...

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