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Ryan Adams Writing Songs for 30 Year Olds

Not that I have made any great forays into the research, but I am assuming a fair number of us grew up with a pet bird in the house.  Some friends had a parrot, others a cockatiel, maybe something else we never knew what to call. In my house we had several parakeets at different times throughout my childhood.  They were messy and high maintenance, often shrill and relegated to a corner of the house so their sounds were made...

Staying Edgy in a World of Post-Reverb Rock

I’m definitely paraphrasing when discussing an interesting quote in Lizzy Goodman’s oral history compilation Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001–2011. This quote stood out for being both blunt as well as resoundingly true. If you are not familiar with this seminal 2017 publication, Goodman basically took thousands of hours of interviews with some of the most important musicians, critics, and record producers of NYC’s Rock resurgence, including The Strokes, The Rapture,...

Memory Crusades: Is This It? The Strokes

  Sometimes our memories pick odd items to hold onto. A seemingly innocuous moment from our life is given over to the past, and is somehow framed with far greater importance than we believe it deserves. Nevertheless, it takes hold in our mind, shapes itself into a memory worth cherishing and brings forth either a warm nostalgia or a wistful melancholy. There is certain music that takes me back to a definable moment when I could remember the vivid details surrounding...