GAINFULLY EMPLOYEDGAINFULLY EMPLOYEDThe freelance-writing life of one Aaron Burgess, resident of Round Rock, TX, USA, and contributor to SPIN, Revolver, Harp, Decibel, Guitar One, The Onion A.V. Club and other outlets. Articles
Interview with Coalesce's Sean Ingram
2007-03-02 20:58:00 While they're not calling it a permanent reunion, Missouri noise-core gods Coalesce are indeed making new music together — and if you know me, you realize how insanely amped I am about this. Anyway,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Interview , Sean , Gram
"Functional Illiterates" of the World, Unite
2007-02-09 14:17:00 Well, well: Seems My review of the new Fall Out Boy record for the Onion AV Club has caused quite a stir. I promised my editor I'd stop scrapping with folks in the comments section, which is proving... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Fun , World , The World , Lite , Liter
Jan. 31, 1973
2007-01-31 23:18:00 Instead of reminding me that I'm 34 today, visit Sasha Frere Jones' page to let him know that he, too, shares a birthday with John Lydon and Philip Glass. Tags: Birthdays, Jan. 31 [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The View from Blood Mountain
2007-01-31 19:06:00 Self-promotion: See my Mastodon feature in this week's Riverfront Times.Tags: Interviews, Mastodon, The Riverfront Times [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: The View , View , Blood , The V , Mountain
"We Don't Fight Fair"
2007-01-26 14:32:00 The first seven minutes of Fall Out Boy's new album, Infinity on High, are so gloriously ballsy, brilliant, self-confident and moving that simple aesthetic criticism falls short; it feels more apt to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Fight , Fair
Near-Death by "Yellow Submarine"
2007-01-08 03:19:00 Just started reading longtime Fab Four recording engineer Geoff Emerick's new memoir, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles porn-movie style, fast-forwarding through... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Death , Yellow , Submarine , Yell , Mari
Best Songs of 2006: 2007 Edition
2007-01-07 01:38:00 Melvins: "A History of Drunks" — While (the) Melvins could've gone on making inconsistent, halfway-listenable studio in-jokes forever and still been ensured an inch-thick stack of positive press... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Songs , Edition
Lt. Calley to the Voice's My Lai
2007-01-06 20:15:00 Hoo-boy, it's finally here: Idolator's Jackin' Pop 2006 Critics Poll, the year-end list created in response to the Village Voice's aged Pazz & Jop fixture. While the first few dozen results aren't... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: VOIC
Desperate Things I Have Done
2007-01-06 16:16:00 From: Nutritional Tree To: first2letters@... Cc: Subject: Your freelance classified Hi, I came across your freelance job classified on online-writing-jobs.com. I wanted to let you know about a free... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Things , Rate , Done , Desperate
Best Songs of 2006: Part 6
2007-01-02 04:47:00 Head Automatica: "Lying Through Your Teeth" — Back-story needed, but not to impress, because I always thought Glassjaw were crap: Anyway, several years back — 2002, I think — some colleagues and I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Songs , Part
Best Songs of 2006: Part 5
2007-01-01 19:44:00 Update: Scott informs me that this song actually came out in 2005 — which, as that's the year their tour manager or something picked up my lunch tab, I should've known. Unfortunately, no one but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Songs , Part
Resolution: Turn Dining Back to Eating
2007-01-01 18:59:00 New Year's Day Menu, from the forthcoming I Like Food, Food Tastes Good: In the Kitchen with Your Favorite Bands (Hyperion), by Kara Zuaro: Cheesy Sleazy (Silkworm) Bill's Pico de Gallo... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Back , Dining , Turn , Eating , Solution
Best Songs of 2006: Part 4
2006-12-31 18:51:00 Mastodon: "Bladecatcher" — By no means the best song on their best album and major-label debut — the utterly defiant, bewildering, colossal and epic Blood Mountain — this song rules because it not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Songs , Part
Best Songs of 2006: Part 3
2006-12-31 17:57:00 The Aggrolites: "Mr. Misery" — Further flushing my metal cred down the crapper, I present Past Year's Favorite Song No. 3, a late-'60s Jamaican-ska throwback cut by a bunch of Latinos and white boys... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Songs , Part , Part 3
"A" Was for Anarchy
2006-12-29 17:20:00 Besides his role in the other MacKaye brother's proto-emo band Ignition, Chris Thomson has been the mouthpiece for three of the greatest punk groups of the past 20 years (Circus Lupus, The Monorchid,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Anarchy , Narc
"It sounds like my thoughts, my moods, my hatred, your hell."
2006-12-29 02:49:00 I'm quoted in Jessica Hopper's Chicago Tribune piece on one-man black-metal band Xasthur. My favorite of the artist's comments re: his craft (besides the one above): "My goal was to have black metal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Sounds , My Thoughts , Thoughts , Hell , Moods
Best Songs of 2006: Part 2
2006-12-27 19:47:00 New Found Glory: "Hold My Hand" — Nothing to intellectualize about this one, so stop giggling. On a purely subjective level, this song is a favorite in the house, an instant winner with our little... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Songs , Part
Best Songs of 2006: Part 1
2006-12-22 16:55:00 While the majority of year-end lists I've submitted from here to wherever largely comprise metal (or variations thereof), anyone who thinks that's all I listened to in 2006 is in for quite the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Songs , Part
Ma, Digital
2006-12-17 06:36:00 My nostalgia for the previous decade is alive and well on YouTube. Exhibit A: this 34-minute-long video documenting the recording of US Maple's Acre Thrills. (Embedding disabled; have to link.) Or,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Digital
Double-Dipping the Don
More articles from this author:2006-08-09 18:58:00 One interview, two Don Caballero features. Good thing I kept the tape running. The Stranger The Riverfront Times Tags: Interviews, Don Caballero, The Stranger, The Riverfront Times [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] More About: Double , Ping , The D 1, 2, 3 |
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