The Classics: La Ley’s “Invisible”

Base solely on the opening trifecta of: “Animal,” “Dia Cero,” and “El Duelo” this album is rock perfection in any language.  But to give credit to La Ley, INVISIBLE turned out to be an album full of awe-inspiring rock offerings beyond those three songs and much more.

La Ley (“The Law”) were a  Grammy winning rock band from Chile formed [...]

The Classics: Monica Naranjo

Monica Naranjo’s whole persona is of an acquire taste.  From her looks to her music to her videos, she runs the gamut of pop music and yet, she can’t quite be labeled a *pop* artists.  For the last 15 years she’s gone from pop to opera to baroque to rock to dance to orchestral and even [...]

Video of the Week: “Somewhere Out There” from Fievel: An American Tail

Because my childhood called and requested it.

The Classics: Remy Shand’s “The Way I Feel” and the Strange Case of His Arrival and Disappearance.

THE ALBUM:
Released on March of 2002, Remy Shand’s debut album The Way I Feel announced the arrival of a much-needed fresh talent on the field of neo-soul, and r&b, with shades of hip-hop, and old school Motown.  The critics wasted no time on praising the record and rightfully comparing him to Titans of the field like Maxwell, the legendary [...]

November and Classic Black & White Music Videos

Ever since I posted P!nk’s “I Don’t Believe You” video a few days back, I’ve been gradually obsessing over B&W music videos, which is something that happens about once a year. As much as I love color, there’s just something about B&W images that elevates the artistic merits of a video and it sort of really puts the [...]

The Classics: Damien Rice

Damien Rice is without argument one of the most talented singer-songwriters to come along this decade.  Granted, his discography consist largely of live albums and only two proper studio albums but those records are sublime.
It would be completely unfair to neglect to mention Lisa Hannigan’s vocal work when discussing Damien’s music because she’s feature so prominently [...]

The Classics: Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves”

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now and for some reason or another I kept forgetting about it so I’ll delay no more.  Curious thing though, even though I have this here blog and email and what-have you, I’m not really a big internet kinda guy.  If I was, I would have heard [...]

The Classics: Interpol’s “Turn On The Bright Lights”

As I said before on my Julian Plenti post, I’ve been revisiting my Intepol cds and I felt compelled to induct Turn On The Bright Lights into *The Classics.*

Sometimes you listen to a cd and *beautiful* may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but that’s exactly what Turn On the Bright Lights [...]

The Classics: PJ Harvey’s “Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea”

She’s done so much good stuff before and taken us through wild, riveting, gritty, even chaotic but always mesmerizing journeys, yet nothing could prepare us for the majestic beauty of what it’s in my opinion PJ Harvey’s Magnum Opus: Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea.

PJ Harvey was in love during the recording of the album [...]