This is an incredibly good ’87-’96 tribute: Pixies, Posies, Replacements, Nirvana, Weezer, Matthew Sweet, the theme to “That 70s Show,” and (my favorite Seattle band of the era) Flake, all in a single song. What’s more, the official music video, below, is packed with dozens of smile-inducing visual homages to ’90s slacker film and TV. …
Critic’s Roundtable, Part 2 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Tom is, as usual, generous, judicious and fair in his evaluation, and that’s why he always would have made a better rock critic than some of us of stronger, more strident opinions. But there are …