Confessions of a Fanboy

Apropos of something, one of the things I like about this album is its leanness. 10 songs. It’s compact like a fist. It’s not that I’m opposed to largess or grand, symphonic statements but rather that few albums can hold up under the weight of their creator’s ambition. If it’s a [...]

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“Traces” is the excellent second song from Built to Spill’s You In Reverse. It’s an easy song to overlook because of the dramatic way “Goin’ Against Your Mind” opens the record.
On “Traces,” Martsch’s the piercing squalls and elliptical layers are stripped away. Acoustic guitar and drums are the first sounds we here, cleansing [...]

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I never forget a CD but I have been known to lose track of one from time to time. One CD I lose track of more than any other is Built To Spill’s You In Reverse. This album astonishes me every time I listen to it. Music of this [...]

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A lot of good stuff from yesterday, beginning with the most recent addition to the collection, Dave Matthews’ Live at Radio City. From there I did another tour through the ’90s and followed that up with a short classic rock kick.

Bartender | Matthews, Dave Band | Live At Radio City
When The World Ends | [...]

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I don’t know why LTAMi has been MIA for so long (that’s two abbreviations), but it’s time to bring it back ASAP (cool, three).
Today’s installment finds us revisiting the works of Brendan Benson, Peter Karp, Jimmy Burns, and some old favorites in the form of Garbage, Foo Fighters, Satriani, and Muddy Waters.

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Massive amounts of guitar-generated goodness for your Monday afternoon!
A former co-worker tried passing on the power of BTS to me when he lent me his copy of this album. I locked in to one track, “Carry The Zero,” and never investigated much beyond that. When You In Reverse was released to rave reviews, [...]

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Let’s get something straight right out front: this is not intended to be any sort of definitive “Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” It’s not even intended as a “Greatest Guitarist of This Era.” Here endeth the disclaimer.
I love the guitar. I love guitar-heavy music. I have heaps of admiration for those [...]

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I’m going to compile a playlist, probably more than one, called “When It All Goes Wrong.” When I do, you can bet Mark Lanegan and Elliott Smith will make the list. So, yeah, I suppose you could translate their presence on the list to mean today was not the greatest day in the [...]

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