This week, I’m going to share some cover songs that I like. On Facebook, I am a member of a group called “Dogspotting.” It’s a fantastic group. Members share pictures and videos of dogs they “spot” during their everyday life. The group has a long set of strict rules about what qualifies as a genuine “dogspot.” One of those…
NOFX is a band that, to quote S.T. Erlewine’s review of Punk in Drublic, is “a heavy, speed-addled, hook-conscious post-hardcore punk group.” Although their assault on the eardrums is a little relentless for my tastes, I have listened to a few of their albums to amusement. I also have a deep, abiding love for the band’s…
There’s always a fuzzy line between tasteless and hilarious (just ask It’s Always Sunny, the essence of that line). Somewhere in the ten years or so since I first heard “Scotty Doesn’t Know,” it’s flipped from one side of that line to the other. Maybe it’s just because I’m married, but the premise of someone bragging to a boyfriend that…
I know they’re basically the urtext of the genre, but, to my ears, The Ramones don’t sound like a punk band. They’re much closer to what we we’d call garage rock two decades later. While they reject pretense and overbearing complexity as punk bands are supposed to — and they play shit fast, of course — the anger and…
Some time around 2004, my family got iTunes for the first time. This was kind of a big deal because I never Limewired music. This was the moment that the world of music blew up for me. Suddenly, all I had to do was type in the name of an artist or a song and…