I grew up on metal. I graduated from high school in 1989, right before a summer when Jane’s Addiction and The Cure disrupted my musical trajectory forever. But up to […]
alternative rock
Late Career Classics
There’s something awesome about a rock band hitting its stride and creating music in its peak of relevance. I feel like that time often comes in the ten years after […]
My Favorite Rock Album of 2018
The Smashing Pumpkins latest album, Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (phew), quickly became my favorite rock album of 2018. For a longtime […]
Shiny and Oh So Bright
The Smashing Pumpkins 2018 Shiny and Oh So Bright tour features a three-hour marathon retrospective of the first ten years of the band’s recorded output from Gish (1991) to Machina/The Machine of […]