Author Archive
04 Jan 2008
Chris Cornell Thinks Your Music Video is Cheesy
Story by Annelise Kopp Chris Cornell says that once a song is written and released in some way that it “has its own life.” With each new interpretation of the […]
03 Jan 2008
Brothers and Sisters – Sunshine-y Day
In the 1960s and 1970s groups like the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers explored the common ground between rock and country. Their best work in this hybrid genre showed […]
02 Jan 2008
American Minor – Winning Over Fans, 942 at a Time
“We’re still paying our dues, man.” So says Rob McCutcheon, vocalist for West Virginia rockers American Minor. Their schedule sometimes finds them performing their classic rock styled originals to audiences […]
01 Jan 2008
Aberdeen City – Second Time’s the Charm
Boston quartet Aberdeen City is re-releasing their 2005 debut, The Freezing Atlantic, with a steady stream of live dates to back it up. Their sound mixes equal parts Radiohead and […]
06 Dec 2007
Product Review: Rock Band – The Game
This is Your Brain on Video Review by Bill Kopp and Daniel Kopp Being of a certain age, I didn’t hear about Rock Band, the newest video game from Harmonix, […]
05 Dec 2007
Product Review: Plus Deck Cassette Converter
What a cool concept: now you can take all of your old cassettes and dub them in-line to CD, using your PC. Those tapes — full of great mixes, a […]
04 Dec 2007
Product Review: Microsoft Zune
Microsoft’s Zune Takes on the iPod, and doesn’t lose. First things first: the Microsoft Zune™ is a rival to a little machine you may have heard of called the iPod. […]
03 Dec 2007
Profile: Lance Wille, Record Collector
Born: October 19, 1963 Education: Art studies at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb IL Avocation: Fairview resident Lance Wille is a busy man with diverse interests. He maintains a hand-cranked letterpress […]
02 Dec 2007
Todd Rundgren / Utopia / Nazz: A Critical Essay
Written in 2002(!) for Trouser Press and in need of a major update to cover an additional half-century’s worth of music — bk DISCOGRAPHY Todd Rundgren Runt (Bearsville) 1970 The […]
01 Dec 2007
Pink Floyd: A Critical Essay
Written in 2002(!) for Trouser Press with a one-sentence update in 2007. In need of a major update to cover an additional half-century’s worth of music — bk Pink Floyd […]