for music lovers! small books each on a single album. i always see them at the bookstore and i recently purchased the liz phair âexile in guyvilleâ one which supremely rocked my world. i love an album dissection / some good old music history
Sep 26, 2024
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from the 33 1/3 series. part bio of the band, the album, and Courtney love, part memoir about the experience of listening to it as a kid, part cultural critique of its lyrics and reception. fantastic. If you donât vibe with the album or Courtney, odds are thereâs another book in the series about an album you love!
Nov 13, 2024
I wrote in Magnet: âWhen she appeared on the Chicago scene, Oberlin art-history grad Liz Phair was an indie nerdâs wet dream. She wrote lacerating songs by the truckload, warbled them as dispassionately as Peppermint Patty on Prozac, could pull the pin on a well-placed f-bomb and skewered the male-dominated geek scene while simultaneously signifying that she was down with all the young dudes. Much was made of how her 1993 debut purportedly forms a song-by-song response to the Stonesâ Exile On Main St., but in hindsight, pitting Phairâs cunnilingus anthem âGloryâ against Slim Harpoâs âShake Your Hipsâ doesnât make for a very fair fight. Instead, the 18-song Guyville best displays Phairâs encyclopedic knowledge of indiedomâs most hard-baked stereotypes (smashed to bits on the devastating âDivorce Songâ) and a triumph of studio smarts over execution (as her pottymouth nod to art rock, âFlower,â makes clear). Before she became suburbiaâs trophy MILF, Phair served as scary godmother to a generation of angry grrls-in-waiting such as Alanis Morissette and Fiona Apple.â đ
Jun 22, 2024
Shameless self promotion alert -- my new book (published by the good folks at HoZac) is officially out on Friday and some of the advance press is now starting to land, which is fun to see. (You can order it here, if you're so inclined: https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/)
Our friends at Flood Magazine were among the first to write it up and decided to feature a book about EPs by.... posting a playlist of some of my/contributors' favorite songs from their favorite EPs. Sounds about right!
"His new book An Ideal for Living: A Celebration of the EP, both makes a case for the formatâs legitimacy and backs that claim up with a fairly bulletproof top-25 EPs list for every decade dating back to the 1950s. From the Joy Division release referenced in the bookâs title to the iconic Simon & Garfunkel collection depicted on the bookâs cover and well beyond, duBrowa is intent on helping readers understand the value of these truncated tracklists as being much more than an afterthought in an artistâs oeuvre."
BONUS POINTS FOR THE USE OF THE WORD OEUVRE. :)
May 30, 2024
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there is nothing better than a solo date to see a band you love. no shouting over the crowd to your date, freedom to dance as crazy as you want, peak people-watching. get as drunk as you want, who cares. talk to a stranger or donât. tip the bartender and merch person, befriend the bouncer. you are the main character when you are on an adventure with yourself. who knows you better than youâŠ? music is so euphoric and transformative, i will always cherish my solo concerts
Sep 12, 2024
plugging myself because obviouslyâŠ
if you are an overthinker, party girl, have fire sign placements and/or anxiety, enjoy liz phair, olivia rodrigo, sheryl crow, or the strokesâŠ. perhaps give it a whirl. it has found itâs way to many âsummer 24â playlists and that makes me smile :) there is also a very funny music video on youtube. thanks all music lovers for considering
Jun 28, 2024
how has no one said this one yet? chappell is winning music right now and this tiny desk certainly was part of that. between the stripped down live arrangements, matching pink band outfits, comedic personality in between songs, the wig (insane), and her VOICEâŠ.truly this performance is beyond i could watch it a million times
Jul 2, 2024