Top 10 Who Super Bowl Moments
Charles Aaron on Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and Ringo's son, playing the biggest stage in the world.
By Charles Aaron 02.08.10 11:24 AM
British classic-rock coots the Who played a much-discussed halftime set at the 44th Super Bowl Sunday night, and we've got the Top 10 highlights:
10. Zak Starkey's bull's-eye logo cymbals! You go, Zildjian!
9. Stage set provoked nostalgia for late-'70s computer memory game Simon among key fortysomething CBS demographic.
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Thirty Seconds to Mars, 'This Is War' (RCA)
Waging battle against fan fatigue, Jared Leto calls upon the ghosts of rock's past and present.
By Charles Aaron 11.30.09 6:39 PM
There's a stunning scene from the storied teen-TV tour de force My So-Called Life in which earnest waif-heroine Angela Chase (Claire Danes), dyslexic rocker-rebel Jordan Catalano (Jared Leto), plus their attendant cliques, lock into a protracted, wordless group stare-down. As the edits flick from one expectant face to the next and the music yearningly
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Reigning Sound, 'Love and Curses' (In the Red)
A rocker's manual of maturity, sideburns intact.
By Charles Aaron 10.21.09 1:19 PM
Garage-punk mensch Greg Cartwright has been refining the Reigning Sound's frayed, soulful bleat since the band's 2001 debut (after his rowdier crew, the Oblivians, screeched their last). And here he's at his most tenderly heartworn yet.
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5 Reasons Against a Ramones Biopic
SPIN's Charles Aaron responds to news that a feature film about the influential New York punks is in the works.
By Charles Aaron 10.01.09 5:32 PM
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Jay-Z's 'Blueprint 3': A Track by Track Review
SPIN's Charles Aaron examines all 14 cuts on the leaked album and asks, "But will it rock a Labor Day barbeque?"
By Charles Aaron 09.04.09 10:28 AM
Once again, the enormous and increasingly joyless shadow of Jay-Hova has been cast over the vast, still-Auto-Tuned expanse of hip-hop.
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Slaughterhouse, 'Slaughterhouse' (E1)
Serving lyrical revenge hot, cold, and otherwise.
By Charles Aaron 09.01.09 2:00 PM
Even if the industry wasn’t totally FUBARed, this feistily gifted MC foursome -- Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Royce Da 5’9”, and Crooked I -- would be a hard sell. Each comes with a mixed bag of previous releases and a history of nagging fallouts and feuds.
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