Come On Get Happy!: The Very Best of the Partridge Family
by El Bicho, May 27
The Partridge Family, much better than they were given credit for - with a solid producer Wes Farrell (not will Farrell) finding the songwriting talent. Also El Bicho gives a little back history to the Partridge tale on the eve of their 35th anniversary.
Artist Overview: Smashing Pumpkins
by uao
This guy writes amazing essays and retrospectives on bands. His music knowledge runs deep and wide. Though I never cared much for the SPs (Adore was the single best cure for insomnia that I naively bought), he made me want to read on. Knows his shit but doesn't push it in your face with mind-numbing details. He just tells it. Just enough detail. Like that.
REVIEW Hatesphere - The Killing EP
by Chris Akin
Honorable mention goes to Chris Akin for his Hatesphere "The Killing EP" review where he laments about bands as good as or better than the name bands, without recognition. These days that's pretty much 90 percent of HM. Atkin has a passion for this area - from death metal to only-slightly-injured metal - (and Def Leppard and Rush) and he proved it this week with a string of nine posts in the genre.
Two Popular Software Synths Get Facelifts
by Ed Driscoll
There was a time when I hated synth-pop. It still grinds my teeth on occasion but I've giving up caring because I discovered if I continued I would have no teeth. This is an insight into the instrument that drives most music today. The author plays and knows from whence he speaks on the quality of "Propellerhead's Reason, and its upstart competitor, Cakewalk's Project5."
I Was A Punk Before You Were A Punk: Pt. Two
by HW Saxton
I picked Part 1 last week; just as many reasons to pick part 2 this week. A narration through one man's views of the last 60 years of music and attitude. (Part 1 here)
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POLITICS: Lisa Iannucci did not pick this week, finding nothing that stirred her.
Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
Enjoy. Slightly delayed due to holiday funtimes.
2 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
thank you for the vote of confidence, various editors!
this is a fine, fine idea, although i must say i didn't actually catch it until here and now.
glad to see HW's post(s) getting the nod, and everything else here, too.
and uao's artist overviews are wonderful.
3 - uao
Thank you for the honor; it is a swell idea. There are so many fine writers here, it's hard to get to everything. A neat digest like this is quite nifty.
4 - Leoniceno
Hey, thanks for the honor, I didn't find out about it until July though, heh.
5 - bhw
Leoniceno, I loved that post!