The Now Lists: Best Opening Tracks To An Album

As you know, we here at the Dragon Lair love a good list every now and then, and since we haven’t done one in a while and seeing how we’ve been posting a bit much about movies lately, it feels right to bring the attention back to music and this particular subject.
It would appear to us [...]

The Now Lists: Bands

The Lists continue with the top bands out there rocking out the best, most innovative sound.  This time I up the number to a more arbitrary 23 than our previous 17.  Now go out there and check this bands out!
 
Here we go:
 
1) KINGS OF LEON
2) SIGUR ROS
3) THE SECRET MACHINES
4) MGMT
5) [...]

The Classics: Music–Yearbook 97-98: “Homogenic” “Ray of Light” “Impossible Princess” “From the Choirgirl Hotel” “Ok Computer”

This is our last post on the Yearkbook 97-98 and as it is tradition, we’ve save the best for last.  The five albums here are nothing short of timeless masterpieces; five acts working at the zenith of their creativity, pulling all the stops to treat us to extremely personal, completely radical and groundbreaking works of art.  Which isn’t [...]

The Classics: Music–Yearbook 97-98.

There has been great years in music.  Sure the Grandpas and the Pappas will tell you all about them from the 50s, 60s, and 70s before you and I were born and there’s been quite a few during the 80s and 90s and even the 00s depending on your taste.  For me, the 97-98 yearbook [...]