Death Can’t Stop Him

You know a singer must mean it – meaning, as The Oblivians sang years ago in “Live The Life”: ‘you’ve got to live the life that you sing about in your songs – when he asks his doctors to increase his defibrillator trigger’s heartbeats-per-minute from 192 BPMs because 192 is the rate at which one [...]

Fiery Furnaces Rhythm Bros. Branch Out

Sebadoh was one of the bands that ushered indie rock into my life. The results of this usher-ence are mixed, but Sebadoh stuck with me. The triumvirate of Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock, Bubble & Scrape and Bakesale still stands pretty tall. Those first two records’ mixture of Eric Gaffney’s confusion/brilliance (Gaffney still [...]