Author Archives: Dominick Duhamel

As I watched the Red Hot Chili Peppers spray Ryan Seacrest with Silly String during the red carpet preshow, I couldn’t help but have hope for this year’s Grammy Awards. But now that the Grammys have come and gone, I once again find myself disappointed by what claims to be the biggest night in the […]

There are only five bands I need to see live in order to die happy: Radiohead, Wilco, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and the Bacon Brothers. The last one may seem out of place, but the minute I saw Kevin Bacon playing quasi-country music with his brother on VH1, I knew that there couldn’t be […]

The amount of recorded music that exists in the world is mind-boggling. Even with the limited scope of contemporary rock, pop, country and hip-hop, sorting through all of it would take a lifetime, three quarters of which would be wasted on awful material. With the increased accessibility of music thanks to new technology, the real […]

Few would guess by looking at Kevin Barnes’ healthy, boyish complexion that the past decade has been a time of immense change for him. As the man behind psych-pop group Of Montreal, Barnes’ humble beginning in Athens, Ga. is a thing of the past, primarily because of his music’s burgeoning popularity. The band will be […]

I spent New Year’s Eve in a small garage in Oceanside. Two of my good friends had set up a makeshift recording studio and, instead of partying until we could no longer remember each other’s names, we spent upward of an hour improvising and recording whatever we came up with. It was my dream New […]

Subtle Saturday, Jan. 20 The Troubadour As the Troubadour staff began to set up for Subtle’s headlining set, it was obvious that the audience didn’t quite know what to expect. The props that littered the central stage area ““ which included a set of fake teeth, a massive painting of sinister black claws stealing a […]

Walking into Amoeba Music, you’re going to have a hard time finding cassette tapes for sale. And you won’t see 8-track cartridges, those bulky and lesser-evolved forms of cassettes. The reason is obvious: Both these mediums of music have been replaced by one considered to be far superior in nearly every respect. I’m speaking, of […]