The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, en...
That same power translates everywhere, all around the world, because nothing expresses joy like singing together.
My sisters were the coolest people I knew, and still are. I have always aspired to be like them and know what they know. My sisters were the color and noise in my black-and-white boy world-how I pitie...
It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.
IF ALL MUSIC DID WAS bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart t...
I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candl...
I thought, There is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment. I could count the places I would not rather be. I’ve always wanted to see New Zealand, but I’d rather be here. The ma...
I thought, There is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment. I could count all the places I would not rather be. I’ve always wanted to see New Zealand, but I’d rather be here. Th...
I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have angry words to say, I need time to rehearse. I can't improvise when my head's dizzy with adrenaline;...
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
I keep my friends around, try to stay close to them, try to treat them right. I try to stay in touch with my friends who are far away, and I do a bad job of that, but I carry them with me.
I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted.
But with their backs against the wall, the Beatles produced an album far ahead of anything they’d done before. Since these guys were riding new levels of musical fluidity and inspiration, firing on so...
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
Bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade dance: Bitch power rules the world. If the girls don't like th...
What was going on with this guy? It was hard to tell, all through his forties. He was more beloved than ever, though his new music had no impact at all. He looked divine posing for photos with Pulp’s...
Walter Benjamin, in his prescient 1923 essay One Way Street, said a book was an outdated means of communication between two boxes of index cards. One professor goes through books, looking for tasty bi...
True, there’s nothing as great as A Day in the Life, but 2000 Light Years From Home isn’t far behind, while Citadel, 2000 Man, or The Lantern can hang with anything else on Pepper. The psychedelic Sto...
She would wake up in the middle of the night and say things like What if Bad Bad Leroy Brown was a girl? or Why don’t they have commercials for salt like they do for milk?