I’ve collected things as long as I can remember. Most of those enthusiasms have been short-lived, like my childhood baseball and comic book collections, but some have stuck with me for life. […]
Deep Cuts: Songs For Collectors
Deep Cuts: Covers Better Than The Originals
Here’s another playlist that started as a discussion in the Facebook music group that I manage. Last week’s “live tracks better than their studio cousins” list led to the suggestion of cover […]
251. The Love You Take Is Equal to the Love You Make
Deciding to leave Los Angeles meant figuring out what to do with myself once my last movie wrapped.
From the Stacks: Nine Inch Nails – ‘Scary Monsters’
Here we have a CD bootleg of a September 20, 1995 Nine Inch Nails show at Toronto’s Skydome. It’s a great recording, right off the board, and if you’re into Nine Inch […]
On Diffuser: Nine Inch Nails’ ‘With Teeth,’ 10 Years Later
With Teeth was the fourth full-length Nine Inch Nails album and the first from a clean and sober Trent Reznor. Here’s a look back.
Deep Cuts: Songs for Standing in Line
I never thought I’d feel nostalgic for lines, but there was something romantic about standing in line for tickets. Maybe it was the gathering of the tribe, all of those people drawn […]
Deep Cuts: Lies, Lies, Lies
I’d be lying if I told you I’ve never lied. We all have, from little white lies on up to whoppers about everything from weapons of mass destruction to whether that dress […]
Deep Cuts: The Best of Non-Jane’s Addiction
Jane’s Addiction is like your slutty girlfriend who no matter how much she fools around she’s just too great to cut loose. The band is coming up on 30 years together in […]
Deep Cuts: Songs For Destruction
I may have reduced a short story to smouldering rubble, but we’re prone to dive bomb all aspects of our lives: careers, relationships, health. Lately our government has been particularly adept at […]
From the Stacks: The Leather Nun – Force of Habit
How in leather heaven did this album escape the Controversial Album Cover gallery? It’s unfortunate that it did: A little controversy might have helped Sweden’s greatest goth band break the US market.
Why It Matters 