I’ve never been much of a music elitist. Sure, I have standards to which I hold “great” bands, albums, shows, and the like. But it takes very little for me to give a band a chance and enjoy them, or even to call myself a fan. Even the most inane lyrics and [...]

I’ve been debating writing this post for nearly a week now. I wanted to wait until the initial rush of emotion calmed down, lest I say something I didn’t really mean, or that I regretted. The subject still gets me just as angry and emotional when it’s brought up, though, so it bears [...]

Apparently I can’t get enough of this theme. Or maybe it just makes a good segue to talk about other things. Or maybe I want to see how many foreign languages I can count in (I assure you there are several).
Regardless, last night I was at the CD Release party for The Weeping [...]

I was reading Time magazine online this morning and read this article about a collaboration between U2 and Green Day to benefit the Music Rising charity that The Edge helped found. They have recorded a cover of “The Saints Are Coming” by the Skids. This reminded me of another benefit to covers — [...]

I talked about this subject a bit on my show on Radio Ugly (yes, I have an Internet radio show!) on Monday, but I thought it bore some elaboration. It’s a favorite subject of mine, and not as heavy as some of the other subjects I have on my mind to write about in [...]

It’s that time of year again, when everyone moans and laments the demise of MTV and its emphasis on the art of the music video… though bands keep making them, and MTV keeps putting on the awards, even though it doesn’t play videos. Much.
I will say that MTV does know how to throw [...]

So, this battle of the bands I’ve been going to every week has given me lots of food for thought. I had originally intended to make a post with my top 5 sure-fire ways to catch my eye (ear?) at a show, but after Friday night, I think part of that list merits a [...]

Well, I’ve had this thing for a month, and finally tweaked the layout a bit, but I’m having a bit of stagefright. I spent a bit of time writing about what I’m going to write about–yes, the blog isn’t even started yet and there’s meta–and I’m hoping maybe after I see that the Internets [...]

I’m just getting started with this project, so please be patient. I’m going to have an intro post up within the week with a bit of a description of who I am, what this is going to be about, and what the hell “mallxcore” is and why I’d call a website thusly. You [...]