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Tag: music

  • Designated Cheerleader

    I got so much trouble on my mind. In 1990, I was nine years old, months away from turning ten, when Public Enemy ended any musical debate I would ever have and summed up every mental state I would ever inhabit for the rest of my life. I was a Black kid with a white…

  • Darryl Zero’s Albums of the Year 2014

    Honorable Mention: Indian, From All Purity St. Vincent, St. Vincent Pink Avalanche, The Luminous Heart Of Nowhere Cloakroom, Lossed Over b/w Dream Warden Actress, Ghettoville Couch Slut, My Life As A Woman 10) Atari Teenage Riot – Reset Atari Teenage Riot popped back up in 2010 with Is This Hyperreal?, a pleasant extension of the band’s distinctive sound that nonetheless stayed true to…

  • I can listen to music in the conventional pop or rock idiom, don’t get me wrong (and I often do), but it’s the stuff like this–stuff that challenges notions of song structure and execution, stuff that dares me to listen not in that overly-ostentatious way that some artists do when they think they’re being edgy,…

  • 8:14 (89)

    Things are starting to escape me that otherwise shouldn’t unless I give myself some kind of stimulus.  It’d worry me if I weren’t expecting it. The reflex would be to say it’s because I’m getting older, that the decline I try to delay in my body is now starting to reach my brain, but I think…

  • Darryl Zero’s Albums of the Year – 2012

    10) Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind It’s fucking Converge.  They refuse to die, and they refuse to stop kicking ass.  Kurt Ballou’s guitar continues to stay up front for this album, although Jacob Bannon actually pulls out some new tricks for this album (the chorus of “Coral Blue” comes to mind).  Converge…

  • Darryl Zero’s Top Albums of 2011.

    Darryl Zero’s Top Albums Of 2011 This year evaporated. For real. It seems like yesterday I was freaking out over the Yuck album—which is good, I suppose, in that it actually did have some sticking power. I also suppose this is one year in which there isn’t really much of a surprise at what’s on…

  • in which I discuss Amy Winehouse (unfinished)

    I’m not the kind of person to get bent out-of-shape over a celebrity dying. People, despite their best efforts, inevitably die for one reason/cause or another, and rather than wax poetic about the void left by their absence, I generally tend to look at death in terms of what will or not be accomplished because…

  • Darryl Zero’s top albums of 2010

    Darryl Zero’s Top Albums of 2010 [Edited to include the Thou album, which I meant to include but for some reason forgot.] If I thought last year was weak for albums, 2010 was even worse. It seems the music industry has finally pushed its way toward the completely single-driven business model. Not that I’m especially…