Author Archives: olneyce

The Hold Steady invite a lot of argument. Some people love them (witness a 9.4 – their highest rating of 2006 – from Pitchfork), some people hate them, and a lot of folks just don’t get what all the fighting … Continue reading →

Finally back from Kentucky and completely exhausted – it’s been almost a week of not getting enough sleep ending with an all-nighter, and having to catch a flight out of Lexington at 5:30 AM. Ick. So needless to say, I … Continue reading →

Busy times, but a real quick post for today. The four big questions about the new Killers record Sam’s Town: 1. Is it “one of the best albums of the last 20 years?” No, of course not. 2. Is it … Continue reading →

Heading down South again on another trip. This time to Lexington, Kentucky. In honor of all things good about the South (sweet tea and Waffle House, mainly), here’s a song by the Drive-By Truckers from their album The Dirty South. … Continue reading →

A blast from the past on this chilly Saturday, with a couple tracks from California punk icons Face to Face. Disconnected From their first album Don’t Turn Away. That record came out in 1992, which leads me to ask: can … Continue reading →

Douglas Adams might be my favorite writer, but he’s also been pretty important to me musically. It was he that turned me onto Dire Straits, and the way he talked about Bach in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency convinced me … Continue reading →

Tilly and the Wall, whose Wild Like Children was the first record released on Conor Oberst’s Team Love label, have a new record out for 2006. Bottom of Barrels took a while to percolate into my brain but is now … Continue reading →

Around the blogs: I Am Fuel, You Are Friends has an update about Brandi Carlile. I Guess I’m Floating has an update (and a new song) from We Will Build. Idolator raises a ruckus about wiki-plagiarism on My Old Kentucky … Continue reading →

Back in town. Anybody else read this article from the Times UK about Nirvana? Pretty weak sauce. Some quotes:“Stone Temple Pilots and Live — bands who, a decade ago, were clearly marked as the diluted, corporate answer to Nirvana but … Continue reading →

For those who don’t know, my job is to coach debate at Dartmouth. It’s not worth getting into all of that right now, but it does have some significance for the blog, since tomorrow we leave for the first tournament … Continue reading →