From the monthly archives:

July 2010

Sonic Youth – “The Sprawl”

by stinson on July 18, 2010

Sonic Youth has been coming up on conversation amongst my friends a lot lately. One of my favorite bands. Went to a great show last nite, and met some new friends (incidentally, The Wine Loft in Nashville is a really cool hang), and again Sonic Youth came up in conversation. We spent about an hour or so discussing the Daydream Nation record, which got me all excited to go home and bust out the small collection of Sonic Youth records I own (I need to buy more of their records), and jam.

Here’s a video of Sonic Youth performing “The Sprawl” live from their 1988 hit record Daydream Nation:

//stinson
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Successful Bands

by stinson on July 3, 2010

I‘m thinking the bands that bubble up enough to blip on the radar screen, do so because of three main reasons:

  1. They create remarkable music
  2. One of the band members pulls everyone else’s weight in the “music business” department
  3. They hook up with a professional in the business who is connected, puts the icing on the cake, and gets the job done

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