“Life Can Be So Fair, Let It Go On And on…”

It started on some random Saturday night in December of 2004 watching Austin City Limits. Some band I’d never heard of called Spoon was on the stage playing songs I’d never heard. The band looked cool; swagger for miles and they seemed to know how to use the stage to their advantage. But as cool […]

Spoon : Lucifer On The Sofa

I think it’s fair to say that Spoon have been one of the most reliable American rock bands in the last 20 years. While they released two great post-punk albums in the late 90s, their career in my mind truly began in 2001 with Girls Can Tell. From that point the Texas rock band started […]

The Minor Tough : A Few Thoughts On Spoon

Featured Photo by Oliver Halfin With Spoon recently dropping a best of collection, that got me thinking about the rock band from Austin. In the last 20 years there have been just a handful of bands that I’ve obsessed over. Wilco, the Flaming Lips, Tangerine Dream, Steely Dan, and Spoon. There have been others that […]

Spoon : Everything Hits at Once//The Best of Spoon

It’s hard to believe Spoon have been around long enough to warrant releasing a ‘best of’ collection, but here we are. It’s 2019 and Spoon have just released a 13-track collection of tracks that cover from 2001s Girls Can Tell clear up to 2017s Hot Thoughts. Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon is […]

Spoon : Hot Thoughts

It’s been over 20 years since their debut album Telephono was released in 1996, and they have done nothing but look forward ever since. I have no problem saying that Spoon have released some of my generations best rock records, and they’ve done it continually on their own terms. Through a major label fumble that […]

Hot Thoughts In My Mind

So Spoon is dropping a new album called Hot Thoughts in March. Whenever there’s a new Spoon album I always get a little geared up, know what I mean? There’s just something about this Austin band that exudes cool and slickness. Now normally that would keep me away from a band, cause who needs all […]

Before Construction

trans·fer·ence -the action of transferring something or the process of being transferred. -the redirection to a substitute, usually a therapist, of emotions that were originally felt in childhood (in a phase of analysis called transference neurosis ). For me, Spoon is a band that delivers every time they put out a record. They just […]

Favorite Albums of 2014

It’s been a long time coming(nearly a year by my count) since we’ve done a favorite album of the year list. Upon looking back on the year I’m pretty astounded by how many great records came out. When I first started thinking about it, I was struggling to remember more than a handful of albums. […]

Spoon :: They Want My Soul

As soon as the opening riff of “Rent I Pay” opens the new album from Spoon you know you’re in for a hell of a ride. With it’s Stones-y swagger and Britt Daniels’ vocals ripping through the speakers like razor blades it’s a pronouncement that Daniels and Eno have found that magic once again. Not […]

New Releases To Squeal About: Spoon and Bear In Heaven

I just got done yapping about all the music that’s come out so far in 2014 that I dig, and that 2014 hasn’t really been as spectacular as 2013 or 2012 for that matter new music-wise. Well I may have to eat those words. If I do, I’d prefer steak fries, coleslaw, and a diet […]