Garden State was a movie that grew on me. The first time I watched it, I remember shrugging and thinking, “Yeah, so what?” The media, and even my friends, had hyped it up to be this great, life-changing film, but I didn’t really see what…
I became a fan of Howie Day’s after buying his sophomore release Stop All The World. After falling in love with that CD, I decided to go back and take a listen to some of Day’s earlier work.
I bought A Rush Of Blood To The Head sometime last Spring. I listened to the CD once, got bored halfway through, and stuck it back on my shelf, where it sat untouched for months. Finally, as with Strange & Beautiful, I needed some background music…
Chances are you heard the song Collide at least twenty times last summer. Howie Day’s single seemed to be on every radio station and music video channel, and was even heard in the background of TV shows and commercials.
I never paid much attention to Fiona Apple in the past. I remembered hearing her single, Criminal, on the radio, and writing her off as another one of the many female singer-songwriters of the time. It wasn’t until my friend, Danny, recommended her third album…
The name intrigued me. Was it the title of a band? Or a strange nickname? Aqualung’s CD was sitting in the Breakout Artists section at my local Target, but I decided to give the album a second look just because of the strange name. I…