Favorite Live Videos #3

Favorite Live Videos #3

This is a bit of a bonus video because my goal with this series had been to share single song videos. I simply couldn’t share just one piece of this performance. And since we’re all (and I mean all) heading full speed into coronavirus quarantine, why not...
Cocteau in Springtime

Cocteau in Springtime

The Cocteau Twins are a spring band for me. It’s funny how certain bands and sounds remind people of certain times of the year. Unless the music is made specifically for a season (i.e. Christmas music), the music and season relationship is often to a person. My...
Favorite Live Videos #2

Favorite Live Videos #2

Regardless of how I feel about a band’s music, if they own it live, I respect them. This performance of “Silverfuck” by The Smashing Pumpkins in 1994 is a fantastic example of a band owning it live. I just so happen to also love the Pumpkins and had...
Favorite Live Videos #1

Favorite Live Videos #1

I found London Grammar through one of those “if you like this, you’ll probably like that” algorithms on the Internet. It was probably Spotify. I immediately fell in love with the power that this band conveys through simple arrangements of dreamy pop...
Peter Fucking Gabriel

Peter Fucking Gabriel

I was in middle school when Peter Gabriel’s “Shock the Monkey” was a hit. I remember recording it off of the radio from Q94, the top 40 radio station in Cresson, PA. That would have been sometime around 1982 or 1983. For me Peter Gabriel was just another guy who had a...