I got a situation. I'm thinking of splurging on 128gb ipod but I don't know what to name it or if I should engrave it. You know me & listening to music. I've always "Baby Drivered", even w/tapes growing up. Almost every gadget I ha...

Street Fighter X Tekken, what a ride. Can you believe it's been 5 years since it came out? I don't think there is a fighting game in the last 10 years that has had as much hype and excitement on release and fallen so far from that posi...

Been gone quite some time, I know. I had starting doing a lot of stuff around the house, major cleaning and putting together new furniture. Went through the couple hundred books in the house and figured out what we could trade in to a ...

To say that The Pharcyde has had a tumultuous relationship would be a bit of an understatement. While originally formed as a quartet the group has for close to a decade and a half now consisted of a duo of rappers, specifically Bootie ...

Yesterday being Easter Sunday I decided not to post an AotW, plus I've been super busy. I didn't even get to try out the Overwatch event until late last night despite it having come out nearly a week ago. At first I was having a bit of...

Gonna be honest with you right now. I've been super busy and forgot to even write the AotW so this is a delayed one and I cheated by looking up an artist with damn near zero information. It'd be easiest if I simply copy-pasted the info...

Stolen Babies definitely has a Sleepytime Gorillas Museum vibe, which is why it's no surprised that they've had some members of SGM appear on songs. If I had to describe their sound it would be a burlesque show burning down to the soun...

WARNING: Some of this stuff might seem like "drama" and if you don't wanna read about life don't enter here. This will get dark-ish. I'm not asking for help or trying to start anything. It's meant to be an overall positive story but it...

I need to open this up with a full admission, I'm sick right now and I was looking through my artist list for one with a fairly short bio. I chose this one because the music videos made me laugh out loud with how dated they are. For be...

At start of the new millennium two dapper gentlemen, Nathaniel Merriweather and Chest Rockwell, felt it was time that someone brought class to the hip hop community and if no one else was going to do it, well why not them? Handsome Boy...

Rosemary's entire family legacy has been entertainment. Born in 1928 she and her one year younger sister Betty became singers in the mid to late 1940s they touring with Tony Pastor as The Clooney Sisters. In 1951 Rosemary recorded her...

Orgone is another one of those bands that is not terribly well known with little info available about them because of this. I can promise you one thing about this blog: once you've listened to em you're gonna want to jump into your Gra...

We Are Scientists is basically Keith Murray and Chris Cain. They are the two that started the band and the only two that have continued to be in the band from then on. Formed in around 2000 We Are Scientists initially was a Berkley Cal...

Formed in 1992 Built to Spill started as mostly Doug Martsch under another name. Many bands have had a lead who runs the band but usually they have a number of members who at least stay a little while. Martsch decided he wanted to take...

Really, I've found it fairly hard to find much information on Wax Tailor. He is a french hiphop/sample based/triphop producer who has released 5 albums, the most recent one just last October. I think that the best I can do here is simp...

Nikka is an artist of two distinct times. She started out very very young. Her first single was at age 5! The daughter of producer Don Costa, Nikka was around music all her life. Her father produced and arranged some of Frank Sinatra's...

Kenna was born in Ethiopia but only spent a few years there before his family moved and settled in Cincinnati then finally Virginia Beach. He has said that U2's Joshua Tree album was what inspired him to explore music in the first plac...

After the last few weeks covering big name artists deaths, I thought to myself, "Why don't we move away from the big view, the names and the glitz and bring it down a little bit. Make it a little more... intimate." So under that though...

I know, I know, this is one of those lazy "clip episode" type entries. I caught a bad cold hours before I'd normally be writing my blog series. I thought that rather than just do NOTHING, why not give anyone who missed it the chance to...

Well here we are, the end of the road, the final entry in this series. I'm sure there will be some important deaths in 2017, one hopes that it's not such a rough year that I need to do a 5 part series, and one that doesn't include so m...

Well, it's finally December 31st. They can't possibly squeeze in any more deaths can they? [editors note: this was written on December 30th, I'm tempting fate] Unfortunately, I have to keep bringing the bad news. This is only part 4 of...

Welcome to part three! Glad to see you've stuck around on this roller coaster. By now you've probably noticed that most of these deaths have been to people in their early 70s. A rather expected age, though the average lifespan for the ...

Now we start part two of this melancholy series. Some of these deaths in this series may have been more important to you than others. Many people have a band or song that has special meaning to them,  one that has helped them thro...

We lost many cultural icons this year. While we did lose ones from every part of society, from political figures, writers, actors, and more, the thing we seemed to have lost the most of was musicians. Every year we have celebrity death...

!!! (pronounced with any monosyllabic sound repeated three times), is a Sacramento California band formed in 1996 as a merger of several existing bands, most notably being the hardcore punk band "The Yah Mos" of which !!! principle son...

Wintergatan is a Swedish experimental pop project which utilizes a large variety of instruments, including home made ones. The band is helmed by artist Martin Molin. Let's go back a little bit to really understand the starting of Winte...

Coconut Records is a fairly small artist. Actually, it's just one person, Jason Schwartzman. You might recognize that name as the actor who been in practically anything by director Wes Anderson. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Budapest Hotel, and m...

When the Doom beta came out many people thought that Doom was Doomed because the multiplayer was SO poorly handled. It felt closer to Halo than it did Doom 1/2 or, the king of id multiplayer, Quake. As a person who played well over 10,...

The band name so long I wont say it twice. For the rest of the article they are either PUSA or The Presidents. I got to admit upfront, growing up these guys were one of my favorite bands of all time. I have their first two albums memor...

 The Herbaliser formed surrounded by London Acid House / Jazz in the 1992~1995ish. A distinct sound amongst it's fellow DJs as the band chose to instead travel the road of American Jazz, Funk, and old school Hip Hop stylings. The ...