“Wasting all your time on drama, could be solving real crime, waste away your mind too…” -My Morning Jacket, from “Highly Suspicious” Amazon.com Widgets Louisville Kentucky’s My Morning Jacket made their name sounding something like trippy alt-country with their first album, The Tennessee Fire in 1999. For two more albums, they rode a wave of […]
“We’ve sort of flirted with greatness, but we’ve yet to make a record as good as Revolver or Highway 61 Revisited or Exile on Main Street or Big Star’s Third. I don’t know what it’ll take to push us on to that level, but I think we’ve got it in us.” – R.E.M. guitarist Peter […]
“There’s a new swivel-hipped, forelock-in-the-face loverboy in town.” –Eric Levin, People Magazine, 1994 Steve Kolander was rockabilly when rockabilly wasn’t cool, to borrow a line from Barbara Mandrell. Sometimes I wonder if he was ever told that the ’50s ended. Back in ’94, this song was featured in New Country magazine, which the […]
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney Amazon.com Widgets Those words from Walt Disney punctuate the end of Meet the Robinsons, one of my favorite movies of the past […]
“Theirs goes, ‘Ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.’ Ours goes, ‘Ding ding ding ding dingy ding-ding. It’s not the same, it’s not the same…’” –Vanilla Ice, defending “Ice Ice Baby” against charges of plagiarism. Amazon.com Widgets It’s nothing short of a tragedy that both “Under Pressure” and “Ice Ice Baby” were huge hits, using that same […]