Cover artwork for Saturday Night Wrist. Image via Maverick/Warner. "Out of these inefficient tinkerings will come the future." -Kevin Kelly [Note: To the ten or so people who read this blog on the reg, I'm focusing on albums when I write about music from now on. No more individual songs. Nine Inch Nails' "Every Day … Continue reading Saturday Night Wrist
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Hole in the Earth
Cover artwork for the "Hole in the Earth" single. Image via Maverick. "Difficulty is what wakes up the genius." -Nassim Taleb "Hole in the Earth" was the lead single from the Deftones' fifth album, Saturday Night Wrist. Released in September of 2006, it charted nicely enough, peaking at numbers eighteen and nineteen on the Billboard … Continue reading Hole in the Earth
On the Deftones
Deftones, from left to right: Abe Cunningham, Fred Sablan, Chino Moreno, Frank Delgado, and Stephen Carpenter. Image from LiveNation. I was probably twelve years old and discovering music on my own when I found the Deftones in 1999. They were featured on the Matrix soundtrack, which I was listening to on CD. The track was … Continue reading On the Deftones