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Kurt Loder’s iTunes celebrity playlist is Snobworthy enough, with rootsy trax by Willie Dixon and Etta James and a song from L.A. sessioneer extraordinaire David Lindley’s side project El Rayo-X (pronounced, as Snobs know, “El Rye-O ECK-eez”), but he’s also got some refreshingly counter-Snob-tuitive stuff in there: “I Know There’s Something Going On,” the “In the Air Tonight”-like breakup song by Frida from Abba (produced, as it happens, by Phil Collins), and a live version of “Tonight,” a putrid Tina Turner-David Bowie duet from the nadir of Bowie’s “happy” Eighties period. Give the Lodester credit for following his heart and not doing a phony list conjured up just to impress fellow Snobs. April 18, 2006 More Rock Snobbery »
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Power trio. Stripped-down drummer-bassist-guitarist format that experienced a mid-to-late ’60s vogue (Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Blue Cheer, Mountain) thanks to new amplifier technology and a blues-purist revolt against psychedelic fussiness, both of which obviated the need for a rhythm guitarist. Which was all well and good until Rush came along and managed to make even power trios sound noodly and PROG-ish. Read more from the Rock Snob's Dictionary » 
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