Tag Archives: Alternative Rock

Now that the Donnas are on a major, they are turning up in all the right places: TRL last week, SNL last night. Although I am not thrilled that they have turned in the direction of the chunky hard rock of Kiss or AC/DC and away from their punkier beginnings, …

MTV’s TRL has been featuring punkish rock bands performing live all week under the banner of “Spankin’ New Bands Week.” They’ve already run through the Donnas (if ten years is “spankin’ new”), The Used, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, and tomorrow Good Charlotte storms the stage. I don’t know Simple …

A Swedish couple has put together a vast repository of annotated Madonna pics in chronological order on their site, MadonnaShots. From baby shots in 1958, through school, first nudes, early career, and the image wanderings of the chameleon once stardom struck in the early ’80s, Madonna has never been camera-shy. …

A look back at Steve Earle's Jerusalem.

I’m very sorry to see Joe Strummer go – 50 seems ridiculously young to me now. I was an enormous Clash fan – while the Sex Pistols may have been more “punk,” the Clash were a real band, a rock ‘n’ roll band that transcended the strictures of punk to …

Though the Dave Matthews Band is much better known to the casual music fan, Phish has assumed Dead-like proportions for the hard-core jam band fan. Following the Dead ethos of emphasizing live over recorded music, Phish is now offering downloads of many live shows via their LivePhish.com site. Phish may …

I really like Moby as an artist and dude: he may be a geek, but he’s a cool and sincere one. He’s also very intelligent and talented, and he’s been around. I was very sorry to hear he was assaulted Wednesday night in Boston – quoting his site: Curious, Why? …

Gotta wonder what Dave Grohl thinks, deep down, about the recent release of Nirvana’s “‘Greatest Hits.” Damn thing comes out within weeks of his present band’s newest release – Foo Fighters, One By One (RCA) – so, naturally, the Nirvana disc is the one that receives all the press. For …

Further proof that most musicians are idiots when it comes to politics and world affairs. We’ve been through this before, but it’s much worse when the babbling is going on outside of the music. First, allow me to say I love Green Day and think they are just getting better. …

Even if I wasn’t predisposed toward ’em, I’d probably cozy up to the Waco Brothers’ new CD release, New Deal (Bloodshot), after hearing its opening cut. Set to an insistent country blues rhythm, “Poison” contains what can only be a telling put-down of insular blog life: “You want to make …