The Music Fan’s Walk-In Clinic
DIAGNOSIS: Attack of the faux-hawks! ILLNESS: Pent-up angst released through hollow channels — the ever-generic genre of contemporary pop-punk. SYMPTOMS: That dreaded faux-hawk. Nothing says...
The Music Fan’s Walk-In Clinic
DIAGNOSIS: Whenever someone digs up a cool and new or obscure act, your knee-jerk, skipping-CD response is “Velvet Underground … Velvet Underground ….” ILLNESS: The...
The Music Fan’s Walk-In Clinic
DIAGNOSIS: A dangerous precedent in pop music’s history — the love of imagery over substance in the ’80s. ILLNESS: A nostalgia overload from Gen-Xers who...
The Music Fan’s Walk-In Clinic
DIAGNOSIS: History is based upon winners and losers, and you think just because a pop idol has won that all-important popularity contest that they are...