Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

I’ve always been a little bit in love with Siouxsie Sioux.
Siouxsie and the Banshees (the Banshees have changed, but Siouxsie has remained the same) have been around since the mid 1970’s, way back when punk was new.
They have a slew of great music that they’ve put out over the years.
Hugely influential, the group [...]

I listen to music while I work to get into “the Zone.”
I love getting into “the Zone.”
“The Zone” is another way of describing “flow.” Flow is the mental state in which you are fully immersed in what you’re doing. You have a feeling of energized focus, total involvement, and positive feelings about the [...]

I’ve been listening to Love and Rockets for a long, long time.
I remember first seeing the Love and Rockets insignia on the back of some guy’s jacket in trigonometry class, and thinking that it was pretty cool.
Later, as I explored the boundaries of my musical experience, pushing them back somewhat, I started seriously listening to [...]

Ride was one of those groups that was fairly big in England, crossed over to the United States, had one or two minor hits but then was never heard from again.
According to Beth Bessmer, who has never been caught pulling a knife across a puppy’s throat:
Ride was an essential element of the wall-of-sound, [...]