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Hole
Live Through This by Hole was released four days after Kurt Cobain’s body was discovered in his home (the electrician discovered his body on April 8 with the coroner later officially saying that...
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Mazzy Star
When you’re somewhere near that midpoint between sorta high and almost baked–it might be one or two medium-sized hits from good product, or a few big hits from something of lesser quality–is when...
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Stereolab
Stereolab is a band that is influenced by krautrock and lounge pop, has an undying love of Moog synthesizers and Vox and Farfisa organs, released albums with titles that sound like spam subjects...
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Tori Amos
“I heard of a man Who says words so beautifully That if he only speaks their name Women give themselves to him If I am dumb beside your body While silence blossoms like tumors on our lips It is...
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Lauryn Hill
Two hundred or three hundred years from now, pop culture anthropologists will look at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards—which, of course, aired on 9/9/99 and that number string will probably Mean...
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Fatboy Slim
The first time I heard “Praise You” was when I saw the brilliant video for it that was directed by Spike Jonze shortly after the single was released. It was at some early morning hour after a night of...
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Massive Attack
The word “cool,” as it pertains to art in particular, is usually used as a descriptor for something that one has not been seen or heard before—either the whole composition or, as in most cases,...
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Nas
[Editor's note: this post is written by Matt Meenan, whom I went to high school with for two and a half years. During that time we won back-to-back Illinois state championship in doubles' tennis. Had...
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Daft Punk
When I was working at a restaurant after high school I briefly worked with a guy a couple years older than me who lived somewhat close to Chicago (way closer to the city than I did anyway) and would...
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Lisa Loeb
If you are someone who dislikes/loathes/hates the early ’90s, or if you hold one-hit wonders with some amount of contempt, then Lisa Loeb is a pretty easy target. Her lone #1 single “Stay (I Missed...
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