Pearl Jam, a band I remember from a long time ago, yet feel like I don’t know at all. It was the album Ten that got me started, after seeing the video for Jeremy on VH1 almost the first day I got satellite television (18 years ago). It was evocative, powerful, and balanced yet angry. [...]
Who remembers McAlmont and Butler? Probably not you, but by the time you’ve read this and watched the video you’ll either remember them or love them anyway. McAlmont and Butler formed in 1994 with both Butler and McAlmont having already experienced success in the music industry. Butler was the guitarist in the indie band Suede, [...]
It’s very unusual for a cover to outstrip an original works. People usually fall in love with an original, then consider the cover or re-work to be a black mark on what they love. It’s even more rare that someone should cover Simon & Garfunkel and, in the eyes of some, improve a song. Eva [...]
There are some songs that sound good forever. In 1988 The Waterboys released “Fishermans Blues”, a 13 track album without so much as a murmur from pop gurus everywhere. Overlooked by most the title track made it to number 32 in the UK charts, and when re-released in the early nineties it scrapped to number [...]