onefinemess | June 22, 2010
I admit, the first song threw me. The chorus is a bit forced. It is. It sounds a little like they had a cool phrase (“American Slang”) and tried to write a song around it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — plenty of songs are written that way. But it doesn’t quite work [...]
onefinemess | February 19, 2010
Go go oxford comma! Ahem. Anyway. So! I’ve always been somewhat of an evangelist — but not in the religious sense (although I did go through a phase that could be said to approximate that O.o). I’ve always been maybe a little too motivated (at least internally) about sharing the music & books that I [...]
onefinemess | February 2, 2009
I don’t have the energy for a “real” post at the moment, but I just found this and hope you’ll enjoy as much as I do:
onefinemess | December 26, 2008
I mentioned The River & various modern updates recently in my review of the last Gaslight Anthem album, and I thought I’d return to that briefly, just to post the 3 songs in question and see if anyone out there knows of any other direct modern takes/updates/covers/etc. Click on images to play from my Vox [...]
onefinemess | December 10, 2008
Have I blogged about these guys before? I’m sure I must have, because I really like them. Anyway, on to the album. We have an interesting situation here in the sense that I’m actually going to recommend buying something where every song isn’t awesome. Now, none of them are bad mind you, but some do [...]
onefinemess | October 21, 2008
The new TV on the Radio is good. Different. I like it. Suggest you check it out. Worth buying. Bah, I didn’t know there was a deluxe version with bonus tracks! I hate that bullshit. GRRrr. New Bloc Party…not so much. Glad I checked it out before buying it. One song I hate, a few [...]
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