Dishwalla : Angels or Devils (acoustic) [ purchase ] Live : Lightening Crashes (MTV unplugged) [ purchase ] Pearl Jam : Black (live, acoustic) [ purchase ]Good things come in threes, right? So with this terrific theme of the week, I thought I'd do a little post-grunge triplet featuring three of rock's most melodic male vocalists: J. R. Richards of Dishwalla, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. I went through an intense year of oscillating between these three [...]
In the midst of recording their new album, local fuzz rockers Apteka took the time to hilariously butcher a mid-90s classic only to those who grew up in the mid-90s (uh, that would be me). Check out a video of Apteka "covering" Dishwalla's "Counting Blue Cars."
If it seems like it has been awhile since I've put one of these "from the nineties" things together, it has. I (however) figured that being the lazy Sunday afternoon that it is, today would be the perfect opportunity to get back on track with this one. Besides, I knew you were all dying to hear something from Color Me Badd even though they were completely terrible then and still are today. MP3 | Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Grey Cell Green [...]

In any form of writing you're going to hear similar themes - whether it be lost love, anger, lust, fear etc. - this is what writing is for. It's meant to channel those emotions into something relatable. One theme that continuously pops up is the yearning for home. I'm sure there's some kind of psychological explanation for an ordinary human being's need to have a place to call his own and to yearn for the familiar since it's an emotion we all feel. As relaxing as any vacation [...]
If there's one movie I could watch over and over again, it will be Empire Records (1995) . It's not an Oscar-winning or any other award-winning movie for that matter, but it has got a bunch of young movie superstars-to-be, a supeeerb boss, memorable quotes, and one hell of a soundtrack. This movie and soundtrack inspired my youth in the 1990s. Oh cliché. So here in the spirit of ushering the new year, I present to you, my entire collection of tracks from Empire Records I have managed to find over the years. [...]