When it comes to Will Oldham I showed up pretty late to the party. In fact this is the first time I’ve listened to any of his records in depth, but holy shit is this a great album. I’ve had it in pretty heavy rotation for the past month and it just gets better with…
Cam: Wow “Blackstar” is a pretty weird album. Bake: More weird than the fact that Stevie Ray Vaughn played guitar on “Modern Love”? Actually, he played on a half dozen songs from Let’s Dance including the title track. I’ve heard these songs a hundred times and never knew it was him. I like them even…
When I found out that there was live music less than 10 minutes from my house I was ecstatic, which says a lot since I think the last time I was ecstatic was probably when I was able to find rare action figures at Toys R Us. I don’t know if Toys R Us is…
After finishing an exhausting list of albums from 2015, I’m sick of last year. Nothing good came out. Music is dead. Everything that I listened to was a dreaful waste of time, Alright, I’m not being entirely truthful. But after listening to a slew of new material I’m not interested in seeing what 2016 has…
Here we go. My favorite 25 Albums of 2015. In case you missed Part I where I ponder Kendrick Lamar and go through my honorable mentions, click HERE. 25) Justin Townes Earle | Absent Fathers – JTE’s bluesy country musings on being ditched by his dad, romantic heartbreak, and trying to sort out your shit…
Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar. He is all that matters in music in 2015. Apparently. In the 3 years since Lamar’s previous album, his following had been growing and growing. Not just in the hip-hop community but among people normally more interested in indie, alternative, punk, or even weirder, not interested in music at…
It’s ony 5 days away from the joy and wonder of Christmas. You may be excited to see friends and family, to score some presents, and maybe to eat some roast beast, whatever the fuck that is Dr. Seuss. Or you may be sick of the commercialism, your in laws, and red and green everything. Sometimes…
Bake: I’m drunk and bored so let’s get this bitch going. I like this album. I truly do. I like Good News more than most and I think the Lonesome Crowded West is ridiculously overrated. But this album I think I like this as much as your average bear, no more no less. But you…
Fig. 1 I have to admit I’ve never been much of a soul man (hehe) but I think I might be becoming one. I’m not sure if it’s just because I’m getting older and can no longer connect with the youth of today or up until now I’ve just been too much of an stubborn…
At this time of year I’m mostly catching up on anything I missed in the past 12 months, reviewing albums for a big list that I will be putting together shortly which no one will read. But that’s okay, I’ve been compiling “Best Of” lists back when I was posting them in my AOL Instant…
