By CoS Staff on July 6th, 2010
While you were gone…
By Michael Roffman on July 4th, 2010
Mmm… freedom.
By Chris Coplan on May 18th, 2010
You shouldn’t wait to hear this bad boy.
By Michael Roffman on May 15th, 2010
The whole set’s worth it just for “I’ll Be You” alone.
By Philip Cosores on March 3rd, 2010
“What’s the point of being a writer or an artist anyway? Herman Melville wrote fuckin’ Moby Dick, he was so poor and forgot by the time he died that in his obituary they called him Henry Melville. You know, like why bother? They’re just going to forget our fuckin’ names anyway.” -Joel
By Chris Coplan on February 26th, 2010
It’s about time someone knocked John Williams off his high horse.
By Lloyd Poast on April 11th, 2009
The Replacements are gold; it’s just too bad they don’t have the records hanging on their walls to prove it. Along with The Pixies and Hüsker Dü, they were one of the great underground bands of the eighties, yet never found that elusive mainstream success. They were the proverbial imitated, but never duplicated band that [...]
By Jay Ziegler on April 10th, 2009
Here at CoS, one band that constantly pops up in our favorites is no other than the Minneapolis, Minnesota quartet that was The Replacements. Led by virtuoso singer/songwriter Paul Westerberg, there’s no denying the group’s legacy and the influence it contributed to the alternative rock genre that breeds new bands to this day (my own [...]
By David Buchanan on March 9th, 2009
It has apparently now been fifty years since actor Tab Hunter (Damn Yankees, The Sea Chase) released his #1 single “Young Love” for a company called Dot Records. Around that time, Warner Bros. was peeved because all the hype surround this song and not Hunter’s recent film under the Warner flag. As a response, Warner [...]
By Jay Ziegler on December 11th, 2008
Ever search through your record collection and see some records that make you stop and think to yourself, “Why wasn’t this record bigger than it should have been?” Exactly. Every once in a while we’ll come across a record and it seems everything is perfect: the tunes, the solos, the lyrics and the works. However [...]