fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
The story, as my parents once told it to me, was that the year before Caitlin and I started dating was the worst of my life. That is, uh, pretty harsh, as parental assessments go. And while I’d probably disagree, I can see their point. In that purportedly worst year, I graduated college and did a [...]
A few days ago, Max Collins---or, as he might put it, the Eve 6 guy---posted a Twitter thread claiming that the band fun. was "hands down the worst band" of the last decade. And, sure, whatever, he doesn't like Nate Ruess's voice and he's seemingly jealous of Jack Antonoff's success as a producer. If you [...]
The fast approaching end of 2019 means not only the end of the year but also of the decade. Ten years ago, in a similar situation, I was new to blogging and felt obligated to make clear that my decade-spanning retrospective was no more than one man's personal opinion. In 2019, there's no need for [...]
Music is important. This much we can all agree upon. But lyrics? That tends to be a matter of great debate. Staff writer Brennan is here to argue that lyrics can and should be valuable to all appreciators of music, not just teenage girls and hippies obsessed with Bob Dylan. To that end, and at [...]
2009 was a solid (if unspectacular) year for music, marked by two masterful (if not transcendent) albums and a whole slew of decent-to-good records. For some reason unbeknownst to me, nearly every band that released an album in 2009 released some variety of pop-album, even bands that had never before ventured into those sugary waters [...]
Songs & Stories 