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Broadway Week
This week we explored our favorite modern-day musicals, including everything from modern musicals like Shrek and The Addams Family to classics like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Hello Dolly to Broadway mainstays like Wicked and Phantom of the Opera. We discussed...
Reputation
Devote Taylor Swift fans typically know what to expect from their favorite artist. From her two-year album cycle to clues in the lyric book, to the types of songs we will see on the album, we know how she operates. However, her sixth studio album, titled Reputation,...
Best Alternative Albums of All Time
In honor of my show, The History of Alternative, I have decided to make a list of what I deem to be the best Alternative albums of all time. Here is the results: Honorable Mentions: The Blue Album (1994) - Weezer Surfer Rosa (1988) - The Pixies Turn on the Bright...
The History of Alternative Episode 7: Early 80s Punks
In today's episode we focused on some of the most influential punk rockers of the early 1980s: Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, and The Misfits. These bands were some of the most impactful on the youth of the early 1980s. Their music typically focused on politics,...
The History of Alternative Episode 6: The beginning of Alternative
Today's episode focused on many of the groups that started the Alternative music genre in the late 1970s: Gang of Four, Wire, Television, Talking Heads, Buzzcocks, and Elvis Costello & The Attractions. These groups would be major influences on the next 30 years of...
Fictional Attachments S2E5: Sam Shakusky
This week on Fictional Attachments was focused on the character Sam from Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom! Sam, a very serious, sophisticated, and a bit quirky, young man runs away from his strict camp to be with the cynical and also quirky love of his life. The music...
Fictional Attachments S2E4: Winter Anderson
This week's Fictional Attachment episode is on Winter Anderson from American Horror Story: Cult (the latest edition of AHS). This is not only the best season yet, in my opinion, but also has the most interesting characters with their own unpredictable agendas. No one...
My take on today’s music
As a general rule, the music scene today is one big cash-driven system with no respect for true ability or meaningful music. Turn on any major radio station or look at the billboard top 100 and you will hear the pop garbage I am referring to. Today’s music trades...
The History of Alternative Episode 5: Early Punk Rockers
This week's episode focuses on the mid to late 70s punk rock movement in the US and the UK. The albums played were Ramones, the debut punk album by the Ramones, Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, the debut punk album by the Sex Pistols, and The Clash, the...
The Compilation 11/1/17 – Back to the Basics
This episode gets back to the traditional format of The Compilation and features discussion on the setup of the radio booth.