Factory-Made: The 5 Best (or Worst) Manufactured Bands
The task – a list of the top five most interesting manufactured bands. Seems simple, right? After all, growing up in the late 90’s, my childhood was awash with boy-band mania. However, as…
Icon and Everyman: Three tracks from three albums by Tom Waits
Tom Waits’ voice is truly a great instrument. Described as “soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with…
The Specials and Rock Against Racism
Over time the entire body of work of any given musical artist becomes boiled down to a specific purpose; sometimes a specific song. History allows us to look back and classify, often also…
Contemporary Protest Music in the United States of America: A Critical View
Pick any demonstration in New York City and there will be a group of bedraggled old men with boom boxes, playing The Clash and The Sex Pistols as loud as they can. There…
