pop Archive
29 Sep 2014
Honeymoon Hundred-word Reviews, Part 1
I’m on my honeymoon this week, so I thought it would be a good time to offer up some backlog-clearing entries in my occasional series of Hundred Word Reviews. And […]
19 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Five
Continued from Part Four… Bill Kopp: For a lot of people, myself included, Dear 23 and/or Frosting on the Beater are cited as the best Posies work. With Amazing Disgrace, […]
18 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Four
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: There’s a track of yours on Yellow Pills Volume 2, “Saying Sorry to Myself.” To my ears it has all the hallmarks of the […]
17 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Ken Stringfellow: Listening to Failure, it would be hard to tell what we were listening to. Because the album has a very sixties vibe to it, […]
16 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: I thought it was a nice bit of contextualization to include Veronika Kalmar‘s snarky and negative review in the liner notes of the Failure […]
15 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part One
While grunge or alternative might be the first rock genres that spring to mind when one thinks of the 1990s, an unlikely group from the Pacific Northwest had already gained […]
12 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… The album that would become Inner Sunset was announced in 2013, but the project’s gestation was a lengthy process, especially when compared to the quick, DIY […]
11 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Speaking of the process of songwriting, the songs on The Paul & John‘s Inner Sunset are truly the product of a collaborative approach between Paul Myers […]
10 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part One
Music lovers who appreciate highly melodic and memorable rock-based songs – the kind of instantly hummable tunes that stick in your head long after the song is over – should […]
09 Sep 2014
Album Review: Sloan — Commonwealth
Rock fans who fall into a certain age bracket may recall the buzz around the release of Liz Phair‘s major-label debut, 1993’s Exile in Guyville. As the popular story went, […]