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The Hold Steady’s Finest Hour

It’s Friday and I’m still working my way through new albums by Pharoahe Monch and the Strokes (and preparing to run the fucking Warrior Dash tomorrow), so I thought it would be totally awe… more →

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The Hold Steady's Finest Hour — 3 comments

Chorpenning wrote 2 years ago: It’s Friday and I’m still working my way through new albums by Pharoahe Monch and the St … more →

Tags: "A" for Ethos, Almost Exactly As Cool As Joe Strummer, Clicks and Hisses and Complicated Kisses, Feel the Promise of Our Pounding Drums, Finest Hour, guitarded, How to Be a Guitar Hero, I Always Dream of a Unified Scene, I Kind of Like the Hold Steady

Believe This Hype Too: The 8 Most Underrated Guitarists I Can Think of Right Now — 3 comments

Chorpenning wrote 2 years ago: Even if you hate the guitar, you probably know some guitar player names: Hendrix, Slash, Eric Clapto … more →

Tags: Lars Ulrich is a Shitty Drummer, Full of Light and Full of Fire, I Kind of Like the Hold Steady, His Doug is Martsching On, I Only Speak the Truth, Tell the Bartender I Think I'm Falling in Love, How to Be a Guitar Hero, guitarded

How to Be a Guitar Hero (featuring Ted Leo and the Pharmacists) — 2 comments

Chorpenning wrote 3 years ago: If I were to teach a class on How to Be a Guitar Hero, there would be a substantial unit on Ted Leo … more →

Tags: Deliciously Old School, Lars Ulrich is a Shitty Drummer, Fun, Full of Light and Full of Fire, "A" for Ethos, Tell the Bartender I Think I'm Falling in Love, We Are Born of Despair, How to Be a Guitar Hero

Pretty Fly for a Dead Guy

Chorpenning wrote 3 years ago: Whenever a dead guy releases a “new” album, I think people have a moral duty to heap upo … more →

Tags: Deliciously Old School, Lars Ulrich is a Shitty Drummer, Full of Light and Full of Fire, Greatest Lost Track of All Time, Go Back to Those Gold Soundz, destination unknown, Dead Sunshine of Your Love, The Wind Cries Jimi, Postmortemism

Ask A Musical Pathologist: Steel Panther and Genre Exceptionalism

Chorpenning wrote 3 years ago: Earlier this year, I brought Dr. Rebecca Mellor (no relation) on as part of the Bollocks! team to an … more →

Tags: Definitely Frat Rock (or RAWK!), Ask A Musical Pathologist, Corporate Rock Sucks, Hairspray

Dinosaur Jr. Reminds Me of My Sandals (Not a Shoegaze Joke)

Chorpenning wrote 3 years ago: To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, there are a few things you can count on in this life: 1) (spoiler a … more →

Tags: Rock, Feel the Promise of Our Pounding Drums, Lars Ulrich is a Shitty Drummer, Alarmingly Consistent, Apparently Unambitious Awesomeness


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