Mainly Rock

I’ve just changed the Domain of the blog. The old oberkampfblog.info should still work, but the official URL now is mainlyrock.com

Here’s two albums already positioned to find themselves on the Best Of lists of next year:
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth (release date January 3rd)
The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (release date January 30th)
The Strokes’ album has been so widely leaked to the Internet, that you [...]

It is rather unusual for me to see a band in concert twice, before finally buying their album, but here is such a case. I first saw The Subways as the opening act for Weezer at the Olympia in Paris in June this year. (We didn’t have the Foo Fighters together with Weezer here in [...]

When/if this guy gets caught, it won’t be pretty, but in the meantime you can enjoy the ride…

I still don’t know if I will make a Best Of 2005 list or even decide on my album of the year, but thought it would be a good start to make up the list of nominees. Basically it’s all of the albums in my iTunes library, dated 2005. Some albums that I really only [...]

Before talking about the actual record, I feel like I have to make some sort of introduction:
I’m a total Wilco fan, I own all of their records and of the side projects, some of them even twice (CD and Vinyl), I have the Wilco books and I own the Wilco DVD, which is one of [...]