Category: music

+ 1990s, grunge, music, stone temple pilots

The Lasting Legacy of Stone Temple Pilot’s “Purple” in My Life

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What is it about Stone Temple Pilots’ 1994 sophomore album Purple that keeps bringing me back? I didn’t really follow STP after Purple; in fact, I rarely even go back to their debut album Core, a record I listened to extensively when it came out. Yet, over the past year, I’ve been returning to Purple, again and again. Last fall, I drove back to my childhood home, a ten … Read More The Lasting Legacy of Stone Temple Pilot’s “Purple” in My Life

+ he is legend, metal, music, rock, southern

Grimy and Dirty, Why I Love He Is Legend

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Heavy and dirty. That’s how I describe North Carolina’s He Is Legend, a band I’ve been listening to for, sheesh, around seventeen years at this point. Whenever I hear them, I either think about a hot, dirt driven festival tent with the heat from all of the attendees packed underneath the tarp causing condensation on the ceiling and that sweaty mess dripping, periodically down … Read More Grimy and Dirty, Why I Love He Is Legend

+ dan hoerner, emo, jeremy enigk, music, nate mendel, sunny day real estate, william goldsmith

Some of My Favorite Sunny Day Real Estate Songs

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Back in the 1990s, I remember watching MTV’s 120 Minutes and discovering a myriad of bands that would influence my own musical output and tastes for decades to come. Sunny Day Real Estate was one of those bands. I remember sitting in the living room when the video for “Seven” came on, a loose, sloppy yet proficient, melodic song that ebbs and flows from the soft … Read More Some of My Favorite Sunny Day Real Estate Songs

+ black panther, christianity, Mansoor Adayfi, music, xenophobe, zao

Politics in “Christian” Songs: Part V

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Today, I’m going to finish talking about Zao by looking at their song “Xenophobe,” but before I do that, I want to take a moment and detail what I’ve learned over the course of working on these posts. I’ve started delving more into the topic, finding songs and bands that I totally missed during the late 1990s and early 2000s. I’m also starting to … Read More Politics in “Christian” Songs: Part V

+ christianity, lillian e smith, metalcore, music, the well intentioned virus, zao

Politics in “Christian” Songs IV

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Like all of the bands I’ve written about in this series, Zao came out of the “Christian” music scene of the 1990s and 2000s, a scene spearheaded in many ways by Tooth and Nail Records and Solidstate (the harder branch of Tooth and Nail). However, the bands I’ve discussed have dropped that “Christian” label, pointing out the problematic nature with such a label, specifically … Read More Politics in “Christian” Songs IV

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