Joey DeGroot

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  • Morrissey's 10 Most Ridiculous Song Titles

    When Morrissey revealed the track listing for his new album World Peace is None of Your Business, pretty much everyone who reported it commented on how hilarious, caustic, and “Morrissey-esque” the song titles were. Songs like “Neal Cassady Drops Dead” and “Kick the Bride Down the Aisle” are just two in Morrissey’s long history of weird, hilarious song titles. Here are the 10 funniest and most ridiculous song titles from Morrissey’s solo career.

  • Concert Review: Mt. Doom in New Brunswick, NJ, 4/11/14

    New Brunswick, New Jersey is a city basically run by college students, and because of this, their basement music scene has become semi-legendary (there’s even a Wikipedia article about it). There are dozens of “venues” that are simply the basements of houses rented out by students at Rutgers, and they all have cool names like “The Candy Barrel” and “The Cooler Ranch”. The name of the house I went to last night was “Mt. Doom”, which I thought was particularly cool, since I’m a huge Lord of the Rings fan. Though the basement at Mt. Doom was dimly lit and heavily tagged with graffiti, it was a relatively neat and organized space for a punk show.

  • 7 Gateway Artists Into Hip-Hop: Beck, Flying Lotus, and more

    If you ask someone what kind of music they listen to, fifty percent of the time their answer will be “everything, except country and rap”. While I’ve written about country songs that would appeal to country-haters, hip-hop is much trickier and more misunderstood. If you’re thinking of getting into hip-hop, here are seven artists that would be excellent entry points.

  • Who Should Be Stephen Colbert's Bandleader?

    We can all stop speculating: today it was officially announced that Stephen Colbert will be taking over for David Letterman when he retires from The Late Show next year. Now we can begin speculating about something else: who will be Colbert’s bandleader? Based on all of the great musical guests he’s had on The Colbert Report, he’d probably make an excellent choice. Here are five musicians who would be interesting bandleaders on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

  • Seven Singers Who Should Be Replacing Kurt Cobain: PJ Harvey, Lemmy, and more

    At tonight's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, the surviving members of Nirvana will be performing with Joan Jett on lead vocals. Jett will probably do a fine job, but I doubt that she was their first choice to replace Kurt Cobain for the night. Here are seven singers who should have at least been considered to sing for Nirvana at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

  • Seven Songs That Sound Totally Different Live: Lou Reed, Springsteen, and more

    Unless you have the misfortune of seeing an artist lip-synch along to a backing track, the live version of a song is always going to sound at least a little bit different from the version you’re used to hearing. While most artists try their best to recreate the studio version, others view live performance as an opportunity to re-imagine (or correct) the song’s studio version. Here are seven songs that sound very different when performed in concert.

  • 5 Reasons Why It's Okay to Date Someone with a Different Taste in Music

    Let's say you've met a someone, and he or she has pretty much everything you're looking for in a relationship; they're cute, they're funny, they love Lord of the Rings, everything about this person is spot-on. But then you discover something unsettling about them: this person doesn't listen to the Stooges. In fact, this person has somehow never even heard of them. Maybe they're not as cool as you thought they were. How could you possibly date somebody who doesn't listen to punk? Fortunately, having a different taste in music isn't as much of a deal-breaker as you may think. Here are some reasons why you shouldn't worry about it so much.

  • Seven Classic Albums With Anti-Climactic Closers: Neil Young, Michael Jackson, and more

    A properly sequenced album should feel like a movie; the beginning grabs your attention, the action rises, and the finale explodes. Many album closers commit to this arc (“A Day in the Life” from Sgt. Pepper’s is an excellent example) but some albums leave us hanging at the end, even the great ones. Here are seven classic albums with anti-climactic endings.

  • 7 Achingly Beautiful Songs By Metal Bands: Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, and more

    Heavy metal is a lot of things to a lot of people: brutal, exhilarating, cathartic, but "beautiful" isn't really one of the first words to come to mind when describing a metal song. This doesn't mean that metal bands are incapable of writing beautiful songs, though. Here are seven incredibly beautiful songs written by metal bands.

  • 6 Pairs of Rival Artists That Would Make Great Music Together: Robert Smith & Morrissey, The Flaming Lips & Arcade Fire and more

    When Blur’s Damon Albarn revealed that he and Oasis’s Noel Gallagher had been talking about possibly recording together, we here at Music Times didn’t quite believe it was true. The two are notorious rivals, so working with one another seems like the last thing either one of them would want to do. This got me thinking about other artists who would never collaborate, but would probably make great work together if they did.

  • Nine Artists Who Re-Recorded Their Own Songs: Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, and more

    Musicians love doing their own interpretations of songs written by other people, but sometimes they make the unusual choice of recording new versions of their own songs. Sometimes this is done to improve on the original, but other times they simply want to take one of their old songs and try it in a different style. Here are nine artists who did just that.

  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2014 Inductees: The Debates Behind the Scenes

    For something that doesn't really matter all that much, there are a whole lot of politics and outrage that go along with the inductees each year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Every year, someone's favorite band gets snubbed, and someone's least favorite band somehow gets in, and everyone's feelings get hurt. Here's how I imagined the conversations went between the voters this year when they were decided which artists to induct.

  • A Basement Show in Haledon, New Jersey: Where is My Spaceship, Glazer, Kal Marks, and Party Cops

    My friend Jeff's house in Haledon is absolutely filthy, and has been ever since I started hanging out there in 2011, but tonight there seemed to have been a few efforts made to clean up the place. For starters, there weren't any broken beer bottles anywhere, and the old laptop that was Office Space-d into a million pieces at the last show had been (mostly) swept up. Of course, Jeff still didn't have any mic stands or power strips for the bands to use, but at least you could safely walk around the space.

  • Seven Great Albums Recorded by One Person: Prince, Paul McCartney, and more

    Typically, when an artist puts out a “solo” album, they usually just sing and play one instrument (if that) while every other part is filled out by their band members or session musicians. While there’s nothing wrong with making an album that way, there are other artists who insist on controlling every aspect of their albums, even if it means playing each and every instrument on their own. Here are seven great albums that were created almost entirely by a single person.

  • Seven Hilarious Movie Cameos by Musicians: David Bowie, The Wu-Tang Clan, and more

    A well-placed cameo appearance in a film can be a lot of fun, but there’s nothing really surprising about seeing an actor appear as themselves, since you’ve already seen them in movies a hundred times. The most interesting cameos are by musicians, since they’re usually unexpected, and sometimes these cameos become highlights of the film. Here are seven films with hilarious cameo appearances from musicians.

  • Seven Awesome Artists Who Are Ruined by Their Fans: Bob Marley, Oasis, and more

    We all know at least one person who is so incredibly irritating that you refuse to listen to anything they say. If there's this one band they keep suggesting to you, you simply refuse to look into them, out of fear that you'll actually enjoy them and become irritating, too. Here are seven artists whose fans make me embarrassed to be a fan.

  • Seven Cool Emo Bands with Terrible Names

    When I was originally putting together bands for this article, the topic was simply "Great Bands with Terrible Names," but I soon realized that a great number of the bands I had chosen were emo bands. It must be an unfortunate side effect of playing music in a genre that itself has a terrible name. Here are seven excellent emo bands that should've thought a little longer about the names they chose.

  • 8 Classic Albums That Sound Awful: The Stooges, Bruce Springsteen, and more

    If you take a look at a list of the greatest albums of all time, you'll find albums by the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Radiohead; huge bands that recorded with expensive equipment and talented producers. Any true indie fan will tell you, though, that you don't need top notch production to create a top-notch album. Here are eight albums that are classics despite their less-than-stellar production.

  • 5 Best Canadian Albums of the 21st Century

    Since the turn of the century, Canada has produced a lot of excellent artists: Arcade Fire, Feist, Grimes, and a ton more. Narrowing down a list of just five great albums from our northern neighbors was tough, but I think you'll agree with these choices.

  • 8 Artists Who Would Make For Interesting Musicals: Springsteen, Bowie, and more

    Even though a musical based on his songs is probably the last thing he ever wanted, the music of Kurt Cobain is coming to Broadway, apparently. Nirvana's music is excellent, but if I were in charge of selecting a catalog of songs to adapt into a musical, Nirvana would be towards the bottom of my list. Here's who would be at the top:

  • Eight Bands That Moved Away from Punk: Beastie Boys, Green Day, and more

    The world would be a much poorer place if punk rock didn't exist. It's a great place for musicians to start out, but there's only so much someone can do within the genre before they or their audience gets bored with it, which is why so many bands that started in punk eventually moved on, such as...

  • 9 Excellent Songs with Wordless Hooks: Kanye West, The Smiths, and more

    As someone who writes songs in his spare time, I completely understand how difficult it is sometimes to come up with lyrics to a song that's otherwise totally finished. It can be very tempting to just fill up the melody with a bunch of nonsense and call it a day. Here are 10 songs where the songwriters did just that and got away with it.

  • A Brief History of The Flaming Lips' Weirdness

    The Flaming Lips' recording of a companion album to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon may seem like a strange idea, but should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the Oklahoma band's tendencies. This is just the latest in a long string of unusual activity for the band. Here's a brief history of the strangest things the Flaming Lips have done.
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