Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
9 Mar 2026 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Somewhere in the middle of day long Lollapalooza ’93 extravaganza, buzzworthy indie rockers Dinosaur Jr. will play the main stage. Though heavily hyped in advance by some of my trendier acquaintances, there’s almost always a gaping void in rev...
27 Feb 2026 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
As Billy Idol’s latest album lands with a relative whimper, my peers and I are beside ourselves salivating over the ’93 edition of Lollapalooza, and are unlikely to have paid Cyberpunk much attention anyway. Although if considering the matter a...
22 Feb 2026 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Former Siouxsie Sioux associate and would be Banshee Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk is released in June of ’93 to what are easily the most horrific reviews of his career. The album’s lasting legacy, however, will surely have nothing to do with...
18 Feb 2026 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Although never the biggest Living Colour fan, I nonetheless think they are skilled musicians. It’s just that their songwriting is generally not all that memorable. When rating a band, we tend to lump these two sentiments together, but they’re...
6 Feb 2026 5 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey
As the most veteran but least popular — at least here in the States — group on the original Lollapalooza tour, this made them far more enigmatic and mysterious than anyone else on the bill. The year is 1991 and the only thing I know about them, real...
2 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Trent in leather coat which is probably quite hot in the Sahara Like Ice-T, Trent Reznor has always displayed a preternatural gift for networking. Before he’s even formed the eventual band that made him famous, for example, his previous outfit, of...
26 Jan 2026 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Considering that we have lived apart for most of her existence, and much of it in completely different states, even, there’s an awful lot I feel like I’ve missed out on over the years with Emma. Visitation time is awesome, but it only c...
21 Jan 2026 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
In this era of supreme silliness, as the mid 80s eventually bleed into the 90s, it’s fascinating how someone like Ice-T can come across as dangerous merely because he’s serious as hell. A person didn’t necessarily need to lace his rhymes with endles...
13 Jan 2026 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Henry Rollins is an especially compelling case study for me. Growing up in the D.C. area, although once filling in as an emergency vocalist for Teen Idles (his longtime buddy Ian MacKaye’s first band), Rollins initially made his mark fronting State...
12 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Those of us who became teenagers during some of the worst years in music history, we maybe had a tendency to over-gush about the great big alternative uprising of the early 1990s. But who could blame us? Well before 1990 hit, even the best veteran...
