Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal You can watch the video above or read on to learn the history of… EVANESCENCE – FALLEN (May 23, 2023) “I felt like he could see straight into my soul. That inspired the whole song.” That inspired the bands biggest hit, still to this day. Hey I’m Jade and …
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Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal FOO FIGHTERS – WASTING LIGHT (May 2, 2023) On September 6th, 2010. Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Taylor Hawkins, and Pat Smear, gathered at Dave Grohl’s garage to begin the Foo Fighters seventh album. Wasting Light. The garage was soundproofed, and a makeshift control room was constructed. They set up …
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Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal THE WHITE STRIPES – ELEPHANT (APRIL 25, 2023) In the early 1990’s, a teenage Jack Gilles and Meg White met while she was working at Memphis Smoke in Detroit, Michigan. By 1996, they were married, with Jack taking Meg’s last name. While Jack had been playing in bands around …
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Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal Origins: Meeting at Abington public school in Oxford. Jonny and Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Thom Yorke and Philip Selway, started a band, who’s Original name was On A Friday. After signing with Parlophone, they were urged to change their name. So they did, taking the name from a 1986 …
Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal Welcome to TURN IT UP TUESDAY! Read on or watch the video above about this weeks album pick. A year after forming, Pearl Jam released their debut album, 1991’s TEN. The name comes from NBA player Baron Oshay Blaylock. Or “Mookie Blaylock” which was the bands name, before they …
This Turn It Up Tuesday is Back in Black by AC/DC. I honestly don’t have any real connection to this album. It doesn’t remind me of a moment in time or of something that I love. Hell, the one real song by AC/DC that means something to me is “Thunderstruck” (hi, Deb). But I recently …
This Turn It Up Tuesday we’re honouring the upcoming premier of The Last of Us. Whether you, like me, love the game, or you’ve only ever heard about the show, will want to prime yourself for Sunday’s premier with Gustavo Santaolalla’s beautiful and brilliant score for the game. It’s a score that so elegantly incapsulates …
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This Turn It Up Tuesday we’re going with Dear Rouge’s 2017 album, Phases. If you’re Canadian you probably know Dear Rouge’s songs even if you don’t recognize their name. You think of, like someone said to me before I went to their show on Saturday night. “I really like that one song of theirs.” But …
Tis’ the season of Christmas music, which I to be perfectly honest, don’t like one bit. I try to avoid going into stores as much as possible, and if I do, it’s a quick trip. So needless to say, this week isn’t going to be a Christmas album….really. This Tuesday’s recommendation comes in the form …
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This Tuesday’s album comes from U2, in the form of 2004’s How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb. It’s an album that seems to me to be overlooked in the vast catalogue of U2’s work. It’s hard not to be when there’s Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Boy, The Unforgettable Fire…and so on…and on. But it’s this …
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