Posterity Post: I wrote thousands of articles while on staff at SPIN and blogged none of them.

Last year we went deep on 1994 (remember my interview with Coolio?), starting with the music of the time. Now, I was 12 years old that year, so you’ll have to grant me some lenience when it comes to my posts on songs by Counting Crows and Toad the Wet Sprocket. Actually, I’ll die before I apologize for loving August and Everything After. Adam Duritz may be a ham today, but he saw straight into my soul then. I also wrote about Rage Against the Machine, Supergrass, Nick Cave, Portishead, Bush, Beastie Boys, Weezer, and Beck. Continue reading →

L.A. Rising: Rage Against the Machine, Lauryn Hill, Immortal Technique, Rise Against and, um, Muse

September 1, 2011August 29, 2011

I’ll admit, I was skeptical. The last time I saw Rage Against the Machine, I was in high school. Seemed like the kinda thing best left to more innocent times, but I was wrong. RATM thrilled, and the other agit-prop curious artists they wrangled for their day-long fest at the L.A. Coliseum were solid . Erik Voake shot. SPIN.

Thousands Pack Oakland Arena for RATM … in 1999

September 1, 2011October 5, 2012

In honor of my recent SPIN review of Rage Against the Machine’s return to live domination, I’ve resurrected my first concert review ever — of RATM at the Oakland Arena in 1999, published in, wait for it, my high school paper, The Spartan Spectrum. Apparently, “they thoroughly rocked the crowd.”

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