Borepatch

( See what I did there? )   It's a little out of place to tag something Modern Monday when it was recorded over half a century ago, bu...

The kids are all right. Yes. they're young (hey, they're kids, right?). Yes, they have weird hair - just like you (and I) did when...

This is a touching tribute to the actors we lost last year.  Eddie Vetter brings a great performance of the song from Tom Petty (we lost him...

Chris Lynch posted the most awesome picture to ever grace Al Gore's most excellent Information Superhighway: Well played, Tesla.  ...

Via #2 Son comes this plausibly appropriate-for-the-Zombie-Apocalypse music.  It seems it's what the young folk are listening to. ...

Old is new. "Alt" something sound FTW.

It's what the Young Folk are listening to.  And it's not bad at all. #1 Son played it in the car, and it was good enough that I ...

It's what the young folk are listening to.  At least if you're #2 Son. A bit angsty, perhaps, but maybe comes as close as anythi...

All their other stuff is ****, but this transcends so much. Damn, I wish that this song didn't mean what it means. I have striven ...

Stratovarius is a long-running metal band that the kids liked a couple years back.  I find the classical music themes and techniques make it...

Silverthorn, Kamelot's new album is out featuring their new lead singer.  Perhaps surprisingly, the new singer (Tommy Karevik) sounds a ...

#1 Son tells me that this is what the Young Folks are listening to these days.

#1 Son quite likes the performer known as "Owl City", having run across his "Fireflys" single a few years back.  I think...

When talking to young folk who were once inspired by Obama in 2008, this might help. What was left when that fire was gone I thought...

The boys have been playing this lately.  If you have to bring back Rock Opera (with hair and everything!), then this is doing it up right. ...

There's a new album out from Muse .

But it's what the Young Folk are listening to these days ... Laser dots are A Bad Thing.  Just sayin'.

Bluesun emails to point out that some modern bands - in this case Muse, but Kamelot and Stradavarius spring to mind as well* - have taken c...

Some stories are timeless, and are refreshed each generation as new art forms emerge to renew a story springing deep from the soul.  Goethe...

#1 Son informs me that I need to be branching out in the music I post here, to include "modern" stuff (as he calls it).  He offers...