Great Album Reviews: The Dust of Retreat
Album: The Dust of RetreatArtist: Margot and the Nuclear So and So’sGenre: Pop, Chamber Pop, IndieYear: 2006 Just after Pandora came out of beta, I created a station seeded from Damien Rice, and one of the songs that kept popping up was “Jen is Bringin the Drugs” by Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s. […]
Nirvana and Pearl Jam, 20 years on.
On August 27, 1991, Pearl Jam released “Ten,” their first album. A month later, on September 24, 1991, Nirvana released their second album, “Nevermind,” so for the last month there has been a ton of media coverage about the 20th anniversary of each of these landmark records. I don’t need to say anything about how […]
Road Stories: The Film Screening Q&A
Several years ago, I made a Surrealist short film that people seemed to like — it won some awards at film festivals, etc., and led to a fair amount of paying work, so (locally, anyway), some people took me to be a successful independent filmmaker. I was asked to screen the film and do a […]