I noticed a fellow blogger tried desperately to categorize emo music in three paragraphs, this is not a good idea. Emo is difficult, its hard to understand. With all the bullshit press and hype around emo bands these days, its hard to really know when anything began or (in most peoples opinion) ended. Sure, you can say that Weezer’s “Pinkerton” is the most defining emo album of the nineties, and once you drink your cherry coke and sit back and agree that Rolling Stone is still relevant, you can bob your head to the new Death Cab for Cutie album on mtv’s “leak” Read the rest of this entry »

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Unfortunately, tracking down these demos is slightly harder then a cheetah getting a license to run a daycare. For three evenings I lurked guns and roses message boards and wasted my fucking time looking at web blogs shut down by Axl’ s lawyers. I gave up and searched on Soulseek for some kind of salvation. The results were predictable, people would claim to have the entire album but its a Kraftwerk CD also, I’m not sure of the connection, but every time i try to find the track “catcher in the rye” i open it to find its a Bruce Springsteen song. Read the rest of this entry »

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Well, anyone remember what they did on September 17, 1991? I sure as hell don’t, but you know who does? Axl Rose. Probably because that was the last time his band Guns and Roses put out a full length album of original material. Since that time he has been busy kicking people out of the band, and replacing them with other people who play exactly like the people he had just kicked out of the band, all the while signing them to contracts to guarantee them a royalty free future from the forth coming album. Welcome to the jungle baby! Read the rest of this entry »

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