https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-beautiful-rawness-of-steve-albini . . . but no other engineer was quite as attuned, in an almost metaphysical way, to the humanity of recorded music, its senselessness and magic, the truths it could crystallize or reflect back at us. The creation of m...

It's pissing me off. Many reddit subreddits are full of scathing shit, over a couple 40+ year old provocateur-ish things he created/wrote. Does anyone remember the Big Black "Headache" Limited Edition "Body Bag" EP? He was all of 25 years old, and "shock value" was a t...

I’m speechless. Truly one of my heroes.

RIP.

I can’t recall the exact site, but this was for the Japan Rail Pass. It gets you unlimited use for one week, two weeks, etc., for trains in its network. We’d use it to get between cities but also for a couple commuter lines in Tokyo and Kyoto. It also covers the monorail from Haneda Airport to Tokyo...

Oh, and definitely get the pocket wi-fi, which you can also pick up at the airport when you arrive. It will save you a ton of hassle.

I am joining the party and headed to Japan at the end of October for two weeks. Is there an Android friendly version of something like the Suica app for the rail system? If not, is it better to buy a pass before, get it there, any pros or cons? I am kind of fixated on this as it's the only thing I ...

I’m going with Staley, simply because “Would” is a great song that features yarling. Not a fan of AiC otherwise.

Vedder and Weiland were pretty good vocalists when they didn’t yarl. But their yarling usually drives me nuts.

Over the past few months, I’ve listened to a handful of his interviews—with Butch Vig; with Kris Noveselic, Kim Thayil, and Jack Endino—and watched a couple regular “music these days, amirite?” episodes. I’ve enjoyed them a lot more than I’d expected to. It’s refreshing to hear people talk about mic...

Is the question whether Odd Future’s fan base basically white suburban kids? My kids go to a local high school that’s 90% black and pulls from several south side neighborhoods. Plenty of their friends love Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator—in fact, our kids learned about them from classmates, n...

I recently heard Hozier’s streaming hit “Too Sweet” and thought it was interesting that a singer would aim to sound like solo Chris Cornell. (Maybe he wasn’t aiming for that. Who knows. That’s what it sounded like.) Not shirtless, screaming rock god Chris Cornell, but singer-songwriter with session ...