Rob Sheffield
Rob Sheffield
Rob Sheffieldis an American music journalist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth2 February 1966
CountryUnited States of America
uplifting liars rocks
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.
hair tails four
Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
flower night urban-legends
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
ideas musical ratios
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
song morning mp3
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
thank-you rocks three
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
stars rocks burning
Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.
song hurt heart
Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.
teacher teenager madly-in-love
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
kindness people brain
...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.
voice language whole
I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
nouns knows
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
song memories alive
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.
lonely kids way
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.