The world has become a smaller place with the advent of the internet.  I’m stating the obvious to segue into my main point.  When I was younger I would hear about music through radio, tv, and the local music shop.  If there was a band I really liked, and their music was only available by…

So, its half way through February and I have finished 9 out of 10 reviews for my top albums of 2010.  I’m very wordy, and this sometimes holds me back from getting more ideas out.  In 2011, I will try to be more concise.  I simply like to write about music, which is a passion…

I know, I know, I can hear the detractors already.  “Kings sold out, man!”  “Kings of Leon are corporate rock!”  Those comments, along with a slew of others, were all I heard before I checked out the full album for myself.  I’m going to say that, even though I set out to not like this…

Wild Nothing will not leave me alone.  They are haunting my mind.  I cannot stop hearing “Chinatown.”  I woke up at 3am with that Johnny Marr like riff in my head!  Hints of Danny Wilson’s phrasing from “Mary’s Prayer,” loom in the verse.  My time has become absorbed with trying to pinpoint every influence.  Each…