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I'm not gonna dis on their many fans, but I could never stomach Blink-182. They always seemed like the ChatGPT-generated punk offspring of Green Day wannabes who bypassed their edgier early work and went straight for the shiny pop veneer at the time. Nirvana was great and a bit conflicted. But...

Nice. I know them well. I even liked Amy's work with the Sleaford Mods

Being from Chicago, in the 80s I knew a couple of the guys from Naked Raygun. But in the 90s I enjoyed the Smashing Pumpkins or Liz Phair but particularly acts like Shellac, Eleventh Dream Day, Jesus Lizard, and even the pre-post-rock jazz adjacent Tortoise. But perhaps my favorite Chicago act...

Man, 90s... when everyone was going apeshit over Seattle, I was all over the San Diego sound coming out of the Casbah... like Drive Like Jehu or Rocket From the Crypt Plus maybe a little Superchunk and Unwound thrown in...

You Scandi boys though... between Sebastian Murphy and Hank von Hell of Turbonegro, it's like there's nothing more punk than a singer swinging around his naked 2-kegger abs.

Hey, wait, I thought Cave World was supposed to be July 8. Leaked copy?

Is it out yet? Nice.

Perfect hair and alcoholism hasn't fully ravaged them yet. But what a guest appearance! On a more contemporary note, ever have one of those days that feels like this blonde girl who makes her move from the far stage, trying to stage dive with zero vertical lift? It's a thing of beauty.

Poor Ozzy... he's going all Diane Feinstein and thinks that telling people that Randy Rhoads is dead is news.

The trouble is so many live albums of the 70s and 80s were so overproduced, it was like listening to auto-tune before auto-tune. I can't really comment on the album's quality itself, as Delicate Sound of Thunder came out around a time where I was completely done with live albums. Not only were...

He's hardly my favorite critic. Critics are hated now more than they were 30 years ago. Nobody likes people inserting themselves as arbiters of anything anymore ... except for Instagram influencers. I completely don't get why those people don't get the same burn-down-the-farm anger as do music...

You're gonna have to explain to me how you went from my post opening with and then describing one of my favorite reviews from a rock critic ... to this.:lol: A Russian troll couldn't have written it better. Dude, Rona is a bear. Good time to chill a bit.

Sadly, that's the state of rock music though. More dying than producing much of note. :lol: I thought the same thing. Sounded like someone fed a music AI with the T4F back catalog. Don't get me wrong... I really like a lot of Pink Floyd. But this reminded me of one of my favorite album...

Good night, sweet Prince

Fast Eddie Clarke must be sweating bullets that he won't live to see 2017...

Agreed there. It's not that great. But outside of the Joshua Redman throwbacks, I'm into more foreigners with electronica fusion... big fan of Erik Traffaz from France ... and Fer Isella of Argentina for more nativist sounds as well. They took big risks and definitely pushed boundaries.

Anything popular is insanely formulaic today. Isn't there something like only 7 producers who have made all the #1 hits of the past several years? What we have is akin to cinema where cash money is best by banking on a franchise of repeats and remakes and slight variations on a popular theme...

I will have a hard time identifying anybody more Rock n Roll than Lemmy. And for the record, Os Mutantes is cool and GnR ... Not so much. ;)

RIP, Lemmy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35192060

A little D Boon from the now-defunct Stone in SF (which I miss)... just 9 months before his death. https://vimeo.com/5050904