2012 YEAR-END REVIEW

This is a long post.

Rush Headed for Hall of Fame!

Rush, one of the greatest and most influential bands of all time, will finally be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this April. Despite having been eligible since 1999, it took a round of citizen voting for the HoF Foundation to admit Rush into the Hall. I can only imagine that in the future, the Foundation will look back on their failure to induct the band sooner and ask themselves, "what the fuck were we doing?" But no matter, Rush is finally in. Thus one of my biggest gripes with the music industry is reconciled.

Also to be inducted: Public Enemy, Donna Summer, Randy Newman (HELL YES RANDY), Albert King, and Heart. The induction ceremony will be April 18 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, and will be broadcast on HBO at some point in May.

This Fall

Well I've more or less failed to blog this fall. Which is really inexcusable because this fall has seen some really fantastic musical releases and events. I've been doing my best to document all of this on the radio show, which hopefully y'all have been enjoying, but for anyone who hasn't heard that, I want to put it here too. I've had a lot on my plate this term, but now I'm going to briefly talk about a lot of different things that are exciting and good, and also about some things that are less exciting. More in-depth discussion coming with the year-end post. Here we go.

Grammy Nominations

So the Grammy nominations were released this week.

Unsurprisingly, they made me want to vomit.

What follows is going to be a whiny liberal kid complaining about mainstream music, so if that's not your jam, head for the exits.