Today's Served Three Ways is a special one for me. Radiohead have been my favorite band for over 15 years now. I've seen them numerous times including...
It's not for nothing that Sam Cooke became known as the King of Soul. He's widely considered one of the chief pioneers of soul music. Indeed, before h...
Although Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" has no relationship to the Marvel comic book superhero who bears the same name, the song's protagonist shares an e...
It's hard to believe it now, but The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" was originally the subject of a fair amount of hand-wringing by songwriters Brian Wi...
Nina Simone's catalog include two of the most powerful tracks ever recorded: "Feeling Good" and "Be My Husband." The latter of the two first appeared ...
It's hard to believe that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' debut album was released nearly 9 years ago (in April 2003). Although it's a remarkably solid debut fro...
The memorable three note guitar riff powering the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was intended as a throwaway placeholder to be replac...
I caught up with Micah, Andrea and Trevor from Ann Arbor, Michigan's Breathe Owl Breathe before their set at San Francisco's Bottom of the Hill. T...
Neil Young's On The Beach was originally released in 1974 as the follow up to the commercially and critically successful Harvest. It was raw and loose...
Elliott Smith wrote some of the prettiest pop songs ever written. Of course, writing a pretty pop song isn't the same thing as writing an upbeat pop s...
The Clash's "Guns of Brixton" is probably one of the greatest rock songs ever written. Anyways, it is certainly one of the best rock tracks ever fused...