Judging a Book What you see isn’t really what you get with Fences. If you brought Fences’ Christopher Mansfield home to mom, she might have a minor freak-out. Between the face and neck tattoos and the dangling gauged earlobes, he’s hardly the ideal all-American boy. But if given the chance to sing your dear mother [...]
Walls – An Horse
Ausie pop-rock duo An Horse’s latest effort Walls explores the ever fertile thematic grounds of the long-distance relationship with bubbly pep, sincerity, big guitar hooks, and some killer drumming. It’s a perfect summertime respite from the overly-shinny sounds emanating from passing car’s radios. An Horse frontwoman Kate Cooper appears to have taken some ques from [...]
Filter Feature From The Inlander
Loud Quiet Loud Filter’s Richard Patrick has finally realized he doesn’t have to put his hand through a wall to rock. Richard Patrick seems a bit unsettled, but that’s kind of how he likes it. Filter, the band that he formed back in 1993, has undergone its fair share of sonic transformations over the years. [...]
Toad the Wet Sproket Feature From The Inlander
After the Revolution Toad the Wet Sprocket got huge in the 1990s. But today, they’re OK with being a small indie band. The early ’90s were a weird time in rock. And Toad the Wet Sprocket fit the era. Playing a non-abrasive brand of alt-rock, the California band had a run of modern rock hits [...]
The Problem With Klosterman’s “Rock VORP”
A few weeks ago, Chuck Klosterman wrote a piece entitled “Rock VORP” for the new sports/pop culture website Grantland. Being a massive Klosterman and Grantland fan, I was excited by the prospect of Klosterman attempting to turn rock music into a measurable baseball-esque sabermetric statistic. Rather than try to explain his process in a convoluted [...]
