Tag Archives: Ben Lasman

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The big thing miss­ing from the major­ity of oughts rock was drama, plain and sim­ple. I don’t mean real-life drama, nec­es­sar­ily, like over­doses and feuds and breakups and unchar­ac­ter­is­ti­cally hor­ri­ble sopho­more albums—although I guess there wasn’t all that much of … Con­tinue read­ing →

Writ­ing the per­fect pop song, unlike writ­ing, say, the Great Amer­i­can novel, isn’t that much of an accom­plish­ment. Just lis­ten to a Nick Lowe album, or the first fifty or so NOW com­pi­la­tions: spot-on songcraft hap­pens all the time. And, … Con­tinue read­ing →