And it’s a dangerous time for a heart on a wire Shuttled from station to station noisily Not knowing why “Goodnight L.A.” The alternative…
Bruce Springsteen, Devils & Dust (2005)
Pfc. Lynndie England has become the notorious symbol of the moral corruption of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. Pictures of her holding a…
Kate Campbell, Twang on a Wire (2003)
"In each of us...there is part of yesterday’s man; it is yesterday’s man who inevitably predominates us, since the present amounts to little compared…
Dashboard Confessional, A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (2003)
In a world without boundaries, relationships are leaving their scars. Sex has been disconnected from love. Living together divorced from marriage. Marriage no longer…
Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile (1999)
Trent Reznor and his band, Nine Inch Nails, are an easy target of condemnation, if not demonization. The heir of Kurt Cobain’s alternative rock…
Eminem, Marshall Mathers (2000)
It is impossible to understand youth culture, particularly contemporary pop music culture, without addressing the significance of 27-year-old, white-rap-MC Marshall Mathers. Mathers is known…
Drive By Truckers, The Dirty South (2004)
As I swing my Land Rover into the drive-through at Starbucks to order a Venti Nonfat Double-Cup Extra-Hot Two-Spenda Latté, a morning ritual after…
Killers, Hot Fuss (2004)
Popular music consists of a world of competing values. On one hand pop music reviewers, with their storehouse of knowledge about rock’n’roll history and…
Snow Patrol, The Final Straw (2004)
On their website Snow Patrol’s bio describes this album as “raw emotion made flesh.” I think that is a fairly apt summary of the…
Linkin Park, Meteora (2003)
A few years ago Rolling Stone reviewed the debut album of a relativity unknown southern California band. The review was unflattering, dismissing the band…