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Arcade Fire on Austin City Limits
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronThis is not your grandfather’s Austin City Limits: Watch Arcade Fire on PBS. See more from Austin City Limits.
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REM: Country Feedback
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronArguably the saddest song ever written (and Michael Stipe’s favorite REM song): And here is a live version:
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R.E.M.
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronI hate to see this end. It would be impossible for me to articulate what R.E.M. has meant to me in the last 20 years. The influence is immeasurable. Here is a...
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Feeling gravity’s pull
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronHere is a map showing the wide fluctuations in gravity concentrations on the surface of the moon: compared to gravity levels on Earth: ESA's GOCE mission has delivered...
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Music musings
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronThis post is mostly unrelated to the type of content that I typically post here, but I wanted to take a minute to highlight some music that I have recently found to be...
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Life in the major key
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronEvidently, some enterprising people with too much time on their hands have been creating remakes of songs, this time in rendering minor-key songs in the major. Here is...
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Crazy catchy song
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronThis is actually better than the versions from which it borrows:
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The sad professor
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronThis may be a lit invention / Professors muddled in their intent / To try to rope in followers / To float their malcontent / As for this reader, I’m already spent –...
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‘Pour a little poison …
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy Styronon my good name.” This song seems apt given the recent controversy about a recent post of mine that sparked some controversy:
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The planets, An artist’s view; or Neptune Winter redux
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronIt’s funny how a project I worked on a decade ago anticipated the recent work of a space artist, Ron Miller, who has created a series of images that depict what our...
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For Squirrels: What a shame
Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronI loved this band from back in the day. They were solid songwriters. From Wikipedia: The band’s original lineup consisted of vocalist (Jack) Vigliatura, bassist (Bill)...
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In which The Killers tackle the philosophical question of the ages
Are we human, or are we dancer(s)?
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20 years of ‘Dookie’
Sometimes, we just need a pop-punk Fender-shredding eargasm. Green Day’s breakthrough album was released 20 years ago today:
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‘Unbelievers’ cover by Lauren O’Connell
Lovely Vampire Weekend cover by Lauren O’Connell:
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Top 50 alternative bands of all time: 40-50
These days, alternative music as a genre doesn’t have quite the same force as it once did. Most midsize towns that used to have dedicated alternative rock radio stations, where one could readily hear...
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Top 50 alternative bands of all time: 30-39
Click here to see picks 40-50. 30. 311 — During a period in the early 1990s dominated by grunge and gritty distorted guitars pounding out teenage angst, 311 brought some diversity to the genre, fusing...
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