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7390s Indie Rock: The Rock Legend Who Almost Was: Brainiac's Tim Taylor.
Brainiac is a curious band with a curious name and a curious history. Unfortunately for the band and their fans, the curiosity that blossomed into a band with incredible potential never became anything more...
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7690s Indie Rock Bands and Albums: The coolest band? Pavement.
This is the first installment in the '90s Indie Rock series. The point of these Hubs are to discuss several of the most meaningful, original, successful, and important bands of a scene that I loved dearly as it happened and shaped my musical...
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7820th Century Classical Music: Analysis of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) composed Adagio for Strings during a very successful period of his work from 1936 to 1938.[1] It was originally the second movement of a string quartet before Barber rearranged it...
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7390s Indie Rock Albums and Bands: The Flaming Lips' Parking Lot Experiment
The year 1996 found popular music search for a replacement for the dying alternative scene which it had about used up after cashing in on the immense popularity of the popular musical movement that has come to...
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7190s Indie Rock Bands and Albums: Tortoise and the Post-Rock Sound
If you aren't familiar with Tortoise, the first question you probably have after reading this hub is "What on earth is post-rock?" Let me start by stating that the answer to that question depends on who you are asking. This writer, for example,...
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7590s Indie Rock Bands and Albums: The Best Band You've Never Heard? Slint.
Slint, a relatively unknown band from Louisville, Kentucky, has survived as a cult favorite even though they only released a pair of albums and a single containing less than twenty songs over twenty years ago. The thought that such a thing could...
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7190s Indie Rock Bands: The Star who Up and Disappeared? Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum.
Neutral Milk Hotel. Now that's a mouthful. How could a band with that name, well, make a name for themselves? The story of Neutral Milk Hotel is, perhaps, as strange and as memorable as their name. The moniker originally began when Jeff Mangum,...
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