Ben W. | October 20, 2009
Anyone with any sense will be in Cincinnati tonight.
And once there, these sensible people will drink and dance until they are senseless at the Golden Lions Bar on Ludlow Ave. in Clifton.
Yeah!
Ben W. | October 19, 2009
Whoever says song lyrics don’t matter is an everloving idiot dufus moron fool.
Consider today’s 12:12 Tuner.
With good lyrics, it’s a lovely, ethereal floater.
With these lyrics, it’s the most annoying piece of crap I’ve ever heard.
Amanda Lee | October 15, 2009
Upon first listen, “Go Places” resembles a drunken wedding carol gone wrong. Its verse is written in intervals that sound like the product of a sound check recorded and set to a beat—no resemblance to any melody you’ve ever heard—and its chorus settles into a lazy major-chord arpeggio. Its tumbling, unintuitive melody and head-spinning [...]
Ben W. | October 14, 2009
The career road map for Scot rockers Idlewild is reminiscent of the rivers in Albania.
Damn near impossible to navigate.
Ben W. | October 13, 2009
Listen to the new Amanda Blank single and you may become confused. Press ‘play’ and The Strokes’ “Hard To Explain” comes blaring out of your speakers.
Ah, but don’t worry. A mere coincidence. It really is Amanda Blank.
Ben W. | October 12, 2009
It’s not that I don’t like Wilco. I just don’t see what the big deal is.
Summer Teeth was awfully good. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was awfully good. But I never understood why Wilco became the band for American intellectual non-music fans to name drop in order to look cool at a party circa 2003. Talk about [...]
Ben W. | October 5, 2009
Well, it’s Hip Hop Week here at almostfourstars. There’s no significance to Oct. 5-10 as it relates to the history of rap. At least as far as I know. There’s really no rhyme or reason to this decision at all. It’s just the kind of thing you can declare when you have a music blog. [...]
Amanda Lee | October 2, 2009
At the beginning of the summer I had what probably could have been described as the most dramatic breakup of my life. Things got broken. Physical things. I loved him, and after it was done he went home. There was no processing, no recaps, no threats or “I fucking hate you!”s, no attempts to be [...]
Amanda Lee | September 30, 2009
Melodically, “The Book of Love” should be the kind of song you play at your wedding—sweet and soft with a chorus that swells in all the right places. But it’s not a cheesetastic love song. It’s a tongue-in-cheek look at all the fripperies that compose our ideas of love—swelling musical refrains, dancing under moonlight, goosebumps, [...]
Ben W. | September 24, 2009
It’s Midpoint Music Fest in Cincinnati this weekend. So all week, we’re gonna dedicate our 12:12 Tuners to great artists you should check out if you happen to be in town and have a spare $30 bill burning a hole in your pocket.
I don’t want today’s 12:12 Tuner to give you the wrong idea. Cincinnati [...]
A borderline psychotic explosion of opinion.
