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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Deconstructing the Arctic Monkeys
Description: I love trying to figure out why things are the way they are…it’s a need to understand, you know?...
Take a guy like Jack White, for example…if you go deep into his background, you have a much better understanding of why he is the way he is and why his music sounds the way it does…
Another example is the Beastie Boys…how did they grow to what they became…if you look at Green Day’s upbringing, you get them even more…
Same goes for Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder—the...