Even the most deafening or jarring piece of metal music could still be very mainstream if it employs sounds, techniques and cliches typically associated with a well established and commonly performed genre of metal. On the other hand, the tracks I’ll be discussing in this article possess an easily palatable…

I write a lot of articles on music that I find really moving and inspiring, but this post won’t be one of them. There’s nothing to really “get” about this track — it just makes me laugh and wanna dance. It’s punk rock, but I think a lot of people…

The punk movement of the late 70’s is often associated with a wave of boy bands that made hyper-aggressive, testosterone fueled music for young, mostly white men disillusioned with government and popular culture. The Slits, however, out-punked the punks at their own game and found a voice for their punk…

I know, I know. Of all Dylan songs to review, why his biggest hit? In fact, why am I reviewing his music at all on an avant-garde music blog? I’m not really an avid listener of his records, or hoping to get more traffic on this blog by talking about…

Just minutes before show time, Scott Johnson wasn’t in a green room letting the anticipation build in the house for his big entrance onto the stage. He was in the audience tuning his guitar, hanging out with friends and family and enthusiastically welcoming any familiar faces still trickling into the…

Guitar players have been employing all kinds of jarring, unintelligible guitar noise on records for decades. Playing musical nonsense as a means to make a punk statement has become a pretty common compositional device in rock music. However, few can play nonsense with the same profundity as the mysterious guitar…

Brian Eno’s classic “1/1” from Music for Airports was the first piece of ambient music I heard that I really liked, but I didn’t really “get” it when I discovered it in high school and I forgot about it pretty quickly after first hearing it. I wouldn’t do any serious…