Picture yourself in a bar. Make that a lounge – a lounge with a sultry jazz singer on a stage. It’s dimly lit, with cigarette smoke filling the air with a hazy cloud. It’s probably raining outside. It’s the 1950s; everything is in black and white, obviously. It’s noir as fuck. That’s where this album […]
Author: Ben Wasman
Ben’s Favorites: Rumours
Just over four decades later, and “Dreams” is back on the Billboard charts. And it’s all thanks to a viral 38 second clip of an all-female all-African American dance troupe doing a routine that happens to perfectly sync up to the song in the background. But, if you ask me, “Dreams” and literally every other […]
Album Review: Boarding House Reach by Jack White
I was about 11 or 12 when I first played the song “Seven Nation Army” with my summer rock-band camp. I beat the shit out of that bass drum. That’s probably the most well-known drum beat that anybody can play – if you can tap your right foot 8 times in a row, you can […]