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Welcome to this library of…posts about popular music. Unfortunately, I’ll have to start this with an explanation.
At the time I’m posting this little (for now) index, I’ve written a total of 57 posts for this site. 20 of those were devoted to the One Hit No More Project (and here’s the library for that one, which will grow just like this one), which leaves 37 posts about…other things. I changed both topics and formats between those posts, covering just one band/artist here, and building a post a round a playlist with multiple artists there. Call it a long process of finding my feet – which I think I have going into 2020 (also, I make regular claims to have found my feet, but they keep going missing all the same).
In order to lend both this library and posts I intend to write in the future some thematic coherence, I’ve decided to limit this index to posts in which I focused on one band/artist. (And, in accordance with future plans, I will create a separate index for those playlist posts.) About those posts…
While I cover a decent variety of bands/artists, the majority of them come from “indie ______” genres – e.g., “indie rock,” “indie hip hop,” and “indie pop,” with various sub-genres in between. Those will be the same kinds of artists I look into going forward too. At any rate, links to all the posts of this sort that I’ve written so far are linked to down below. As I write more posts going forward, I’ll add them to this post with semi-regularity to keep this library current.
Finally, you’ll see a bunch of different titles below, as well as a discontinued series or two. Going forward, I’ve decided to continue this under the “Crash Course” series, so the numbers will count up from there (and I dropped the hyphen in “Crash-Course”). That’s all, lots to read below - and listen to. Each post includes a short-ish history of the relevant band/artist, as well as links to a bunch of their music. God bless, Youtube, right?
At the time I’m posting this little (for now) index, I’ve written a total of 57 posts for this site. 20 of those were devoted to the One Hit No More Project (and here’s the library for that one, which will grow just like this one), which leaves 37 posts about…other things. I changed both topics and formats between those posts, covering just one band/artist here, and building a post a round a playlist with multiple artists there. Call it a long process of finding my feet – which I think I have going into 2020 (also, I make regular claims to have found my feet, but they keep going missing all the same).
In order to lend both this library and posts I intend to write in the future some thematic coherence, I’ve decided to limit this index to posts in which I focused on one band/artist. (And, in accordance with future plans, I will create a separate index for those playlist posts.) About those posts…
While I cover a decent variety of bands/artists, the majority of them come from “indie ______” genres – e.g., “indie rock,” “indie hip hop,” and “indie pop,” with various sub-genres in between. Those will be the same kinds of artists I look into going forward too. At any rate, links to all the posts of this sort that I’ve written so far are linked to down below. As I write more posts going forward, I’ll add them to this post with semi-regularity to keep this library current.
Finally, you’ll see a bunch of different titles below, as well as a discontinued series or two. Going forward, I’ve decided to continue this under the “Crash Course” series, so the numbers will count up from there (and I dropped the hyphen in “Crash-Course”). That’s all, lots to read below - and listen to. Each post includes a short-ish history of the relevant band/artist, as well as links to a bunch of their music. God bless, Youtube, right?
Here’s the current library – with genre/tone identifiers for each of them. I’ll update this post as I write more posts.
New to Me, No. 1: The Mellow Gold of Weyes Blood’s Titanic Rising
(Indie pop, 70s-era throwback, slow tempo; Natalie Mering’s voice is the centerpiece)
New To Me, No. 2: Orange Goblin, Regular Blokes with Bills, Just Like You
(Classic metal, leaning toward the Black Sabbath branch of that family tree)
The Who, Half-Assing, and the Perils of Full-Assing
(I’m going to assume you know The Who; also, includes one of my many meltdowns)
Number 0001: The Only Youth Group I’d Ever Join
(The band is Australia’s Youth Group; call it indie-rock from The O.C. era)
Number 0002: Yo La Tengo, A Subtly Addicting Band (+ 5 Others)
Number 0002: Yo La Tengo, A Subtly Addicting Band (+ 5 Others)
(Notes on one of the great indie rock bands, and the last of the old-model multi-artist posts)
Number 0003: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, A Thing for B-Sides
(Art-flecked punk from the 2000s.)
Number 0004: Celebrating PDX Pop Now!
(Multi-artist post, plus a little history of Portland, OR’s free annual music festival)
Number 0005: Gaytheist & PDX Pop Now! 2019
(Gaytheist straddles punk and metal, the rest of the artists fit the genre profile mentioned above)
Number 0006: X, Punk Rock for the Heartland
(Punk legends from late 70s/early 80s Los Angeles; another multi-artist post)
Number 0007: Wild Flag…Ooh, and Who’s That Behind Them?
(Indie-punk super-group built from Helium and Sleater-Kinney; another multi-artist post…JFC)
Number 0008: Weezer, A Franchise
(The self-styled “kings of medium rock,” aka, your basic 90s/early 00s indie rock)
Number 0009: Husker Du, Literally
(Started as punk rock, wound down into what they once called alternative rock)
Number 0010: Daryl Hall & John Oates, Not Hall & Oates, A Little Respect
(Famous for their early 80s blues rock sound, but started folk and had a 70s rock phase)
Number 0011: UltraVoxyCars, From the 70s into the 80s
(the study of an era, ft. Roxy Music, The Cars, UltraVox, and Squeeze; yes, I am a mess)
Number 0012: T.Rex, The Dinosaur That Boogied
(Glam-rock, pioneers of the form, and bringers of T-Rextacy)
Number 0013: Ezra Furman, You’ve Already Missed Too Much
(Indie-rock, leaning punk, but he’s both genre- and gender-fluid)
Number 0014: Parquet Courts, Regular Dudes, Killing It Every Day
(Art punk probably fits them best)
Number 0015: Battle of the Bands, Dad Rock Edition
(A project where I researched Styx, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Boston and Journey to decide which 70s-hangover rock band held up the best; 5 posts in one)
Number 0016: Ween, Triumph, Breakdown, and a Tenuous Aftermath
(Drugged-up indie rock with a wide variety of textures)
Number 0003: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, A Thing for B-Sides
(Art-flecked punk from the 2000s.)
Number 0004: Celebrating PDX Pop Now!
(Multi-artist post, plus a little history of Portland, OR’s free annual music festival)
Number 0005: Gaytheist & PDX Pop Now! 2019
(Gaytheist straddles punk and metal, the rest of the artists fit the genre profile mentioned above)
Number 0006: X, Punk Rock for the Heartland
(Punk legends from late 70s/early 80s Los Angeles; another multi-artist post)
Number 0007: Wild Flag…Ooh, and Who’s That Behind Them?
(Indie-punk super-group built from Helium and Sleater-Kinney; another multi-artist post…JFC)
Number 0008: Weezer, A Franchise
(The self-styled “kings of medium rock,” aka, your basic 90s/early 00s indie rock)
Number 0009: Husker Du, Literally
(Started as punk rock, wound down into what they once called alternative rock)
Number 0010: Daryl Hall & John Oates, Not Hall & Oates, A Little Respect
(Famous for their early 80s blues rock sound, but started folk and had a 70s rock phase)
Number 0011: UltraVoxyCars, From the 70s into the 80s
(the study of an era, ft. Roxy Music, The Cars, UltraVox, and Squeeze; yes, I am a mess)
Number 0012: T.Rex, The Dinosaur That Boogied
(Glam-rock, pioneers of the form, and bringers of T-Rextacy)
Number 0013: Ezra Furman, You’ve Already Missed Too Much
(Indie-rock, leaning punk, but he’s both genre- and gender-fluid)
Number 0014: Parquet Courts, Regular Dudes, Killing It Every Day
(Art punk probably fits them best)
Number 0015: Battle of the Bands, Dad Rock Edition
(A project where I researched Styx, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Boston and Journey to decide which 70s-hangover rock band held up the best; 5 posts in one)
Number 0016: Ween, Triumph, Breakdown, and a Tenuous Aftermath
(Drugged-up indie rock with a wide variety of textures)
(Like it says. The titles get more literal from here. Somewhat.)
(A tribute (sort of) to the Canadian legends)
(Finally trying to understand Elvis Presley's career and appreciating the King's good things)
(Notes on Portland, OR's internet-shy punk masters)
(One of the painful cases of a charismatic lead singer leaving behind the band she came up with)
(A man from the San Fernando Valley meets a man from Austin, TX and they make soul-funk)
(The long struggling road of a man who's trying to make a solo career in 2020's R&B)
(The pride of Hicksville, Long Island, a 70s throwback with several ambitions and fun tensions!)
(The hardest-working, funnest indie-pop-rock trio of the COVID era)
(The genderqueer rock artist aiming to be an icon for all...by beating everyone)
(A short history of one of Portland, Oregon's indie-rock mainstays of the 2010s)
(One of the dimming legends of the Philly Soul scene, a groundbreaking artist ahead of his time)
(The elder brothers of NYC's legendary Native Tongue crew, real hip hop innovators)
(A soloist in every sense of the word, soul music singer-songwriter extraordinaire)
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