Confessions of a Fanboy

I know he can be a bit of an annoying idiot, but “Porcelain” might be one of the prettiest chill songs in recent memory.
I don’t know why I have the excruciating headache I have had since last night, but I just turned out all the lights in the room, put on my headphones, and put [...]

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I remember a time when the term “alternative” meant something. That moment lasted for about a minute. Corporate America either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that it’s the derivative of the derivative that is going to kill you every time. The first wave is fresh. The second wave might not be [...]

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Switchfoot had their breakthrough success in 2004 with The Beautiful Letdown. TBL was their major label debut, but fourth album overall. “Company Car” is a great song from their 1999 record New Way to Be Human and is one of the best songs to come from that pre-TBL era. It is a [...]

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There are some people you’ve heard, and some you’ve heard of. One of the unanticipated joys of discovering The Byrds has been discovering David Crosby. Mostly due to my age, David Crosby has been more famous for his drug troubles, his walrus-like appearance, his sperm donation, and his willingness to be [...]

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Today’s Billboard Beatdown goes old school, and you can’t get much more old school than Kill ‘Em All-era Metallica. This one takes me back to a very specific time and place in my life. Junior high school. Kent, Washington.
This was the hardest, heaviest, most evil thing I had ever [...]

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This morning’s Billboard Beatdown comes to us in the form of a sermon. The Rev. Ryan Miller, and I’m betting he’s never been called that before, preaches the gospel through the relationship sketch. Open your hymnals, and sing along with Rev. Ryan:
So we pass the time
and occupy our minds
and close our [...]

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Major League Baseball season is once again upon us and there’s only one song to listen to at a time like this: John Fogerty’s “Centerfield.”
I know what you’re thinking, and you’re right. The cliché police are going to arrest me, but I can’t help it. My Red Sox will again take [...]

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