Blog: Music Zen!

The guitar itself has become such an icon-a combination of masculine and feminine shapes that conjures up images of anything from Elvis-style hip-shakin' to punk snarls, to college-quad douchebags to garage band antics to... well fill in the blank with almost anything you want. The mere visual has almost become a symbol for music itself. To [...]

In honor of their 1000th issue, Entertainment Weekly listed what someone(s?) on their staff must think are the best albums released since 1983. Here's the list: 100 George Michael - Faith (1987) 99 Hole - Live Through This (1994) 98 Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003) 97 Britney Spears - Britney (2001) 96 PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, [...]

Josh Homme has issued a bizarre statement regarding his recent freak out in Oslo at an a little chickenshit faggot object-throwing heckler. It's amusingly worded, but then, Josh "I'm Never Too Sick to Fight" Homme still a lot to learn from Courtney Love's blogging style. Homme says: Member of the Peanut Gallery: Some journalists & citizens on the [...]

I should get it out in the open that I don't listen to much music before 1977. Before punk came along, music was boring to me outside of a select few bands. Punk ushered in an entire underground world of music that was able to spread by word of mouth, fanzines, and, later, the internet. [...]