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The few bits of press I can recall proclaimed Mas Optica as “acoustic metal” – which sounded intriguing enough (even though acoustic guitars are really nothing unusual in metal). So, I had imagined that the album must be entirely acoustic guitars…yet heavy…with no distortion and no effects, right? Not exactly. What you do get is […]
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This is one of those ‘promo only’ CDs that I found in the bargain bins at a record store where I spent too much time during my teens & 20’s. I was just beginning to warm up to Sunny Day Real Estate; and I was very lukewarm toward frontman Enigk’s ‘Return of the Frog King’…so […]
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Sometimes it seems that there’s so much great music from Michigan artists, we can almost be forgiven for spawning Kid Rock. I like to think this state has some sort of magic in its soil: the incomparable Blind Willie McTell even spent some time here! Alongside the greatness of those ’90s Kalamazoo bands, there was […]
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In 1988, I was in high school – and I was also at that point in my youth when all i listened to was metal. Around that same time, I distinctly recall being the passenger in a friend’s car on a summer drive to nowhere – when we happened upon a hapless metalhead in a […]
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In a surprising turn of events, Culture Of None has been asked to “take down the blog” by Detroit rapper Shane Capone, who has been in almost constant rotation in our CD player since reviewing his album ‘Heated Speech’ last month. What seemed to ruffle his pimp feathers the most was that I’d expressed dismay […]
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I actually went to the Salvation Army store today in hopes of buying a button-down shirt I’d seen there last week… but the shirt was gone. There were, however, many surprises in the record bins. It looked like someone’s entire collection of late ’60s/early ’70s stuff had been donated. There was some Rod McKuen, some […]
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Surely most of us have experience with vending machine capsule toys. The machines are usually stacked in the entranceway of grocery stores & convenience shops. They’ve remained pretty much the same as I recall them 30 years ago: you put in a quarter, and hope that your randomly dispensed capsule contains one of the cooler […]
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