Pictures at an Exhibition – State Theatre in New Brunswick, 5/19/06
I’m pretty much a dummy when it comes to classical music. I couldn’t tell a Beethoven movement from a Mozart symphony if you held a gun to my head. To be perfectly honest, a lot…
Category: Music
1974 – It was a very good year (for music)
According a recent piece on cnn.com, 1974 was a really bad year for music. Like, really bad. As some examples, the author cites the following examples of musical craptasticity: Terry Jacks’ “Seasons in the Sun,”…
Album review – Queensrÿche, Operation: Mindcrime II
I’ve had about a week to digest the latest release from Queensrÿche, Operation: Mindcrime II. It was an album I dreaded listening to when I first heard the group was planning a sequel a year…
The Chordettes – Early feminist heroines?
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An examination of the 1959 Chordettes song “A Girl’s Work Is Never Done.” Is it an early example of feminism in music?…
A Loving Tribute to “Slave to the Metal”
A fond look at Slave to the Metal (1982), my favorite heavy metal compilation album of all-time. Featuring Twisted Sister, Judas Priest, and Queensrÿche!…
In Concert: Steve Hackett Acoustic Trio
A concert review of the Steve Hackett Acoustic Trio at the Keswick Theatre – October 13, 2005.…
Goodbye to CDs (maybe)
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Sales of digital music boomed in the first half of 2005, compared to the same period in 2004. Meanwhile, sales of physical product (CDs, DVDs, etc.) slipped. Many are already hailing this as a sign…
1994 in popular music – musical hell, heaven or purgatory?
Nothing cures a pesky bout of writer’s block like a good old-fashioned Inter-web meme!I stumbled across one today on a blog that is full of crap. So like the lemming I am, here we go:…
Brian makes me SMiLE
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I don’t normally plunk down any of my hard-earned (well, just earned) money on any form of entertainment unless I have a reasonable expectation that it will be worth it. But when I found out…