Music that is not metal.
20 years ago my brief stint as a guitar player was for a time extended when I picked up a classical guitar and found a couple decent books of early music to hold my flagging …
It is difficult to exactly pin down the style of today's song. A melancholy ballad from Rainer Fassbinder's 1970 disaffected "noir" The American Soldier, it sounds nothing I can quite put my finger on. …
Despite picking up an odd baroque record every now and then when I'm at an antique mall, it's been tough to find stuff that holds up to the handful of well-curated baroque albums in my …
Folk music comes in many forms and while most of them are a basically just that dude playing acoustic guitar in Animal House, it's still one of my favorite styles when I'm not listening to …
Dungeon Synth is the genre of music I'd like to think I'm better than, except I'm not. I mean, it's basically the kind of music you make when you buy your first keyboard, click …
Today's song isn't the first song I discovered through a heavy metal cover. However, unlike Gamma Ray's "It's a Sin," Sepultura's version of "The Hunt" was NOT the standout on its album. Sepultura …
My Minor Key Monday picks mostly fall into three categories: weird shit I listened to as a kid, music used in movies, and youtube autoplay happy accidents. Today however I had a rare "heard …
As the years go on and I descend further into the depths of problematically unlistenable problematic black metal in the search for something that can make me feel, I do, thankfully have a few non …
Germs were a hardcore band that were probably best known (at least to those outside the punk scene) from their infamous appearance on The Decline of Western Civilization. In that documentary (covering the LA …
Uriah Heep, I had always assumed, was one of those bands like Molly Hatchet. You know the bands I'm talking about, the ones whose music is light years behind the potential of their album …