The process of belief is an elixir when you’re weak I must confess, at times I indulge it on the sneak.” ~Bad Religion Contemporary…
Radiohead, Kid A (2000)
Radiohead’s long-anticipated record, Kid A (2000) is the antidote to the Disneyfied-saccharine-commodification of pop and the misogynist-angry-victimization of hip hop. Instead, Kid A is…
Paula Cole, Amen (1999)
Seven-time Grammy nominee and 1998 Best New Artist, Paula Cole has released her latest album, Amen, which has met with a strongly mixed reaction…
Counting Crows, Hard Candy (2002)
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…