Back in 2014 when Ryan Adam’s self titled album came out I gushed about it not sounding like anything in two decades. After listening to The War of Drug’s Lost in the Dream again recently, I would like to amend that statement to read “it sounds like nothing else recorded in two decades, except this…
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…
Have you ever dated someone that was part of your group of friends for years then one day for whatever reason you two ended up together? If anyone asked you about them in the past you would say “yeah, they’re cool” and maybe even acknowledge that they’re attractive but you just thought of them as friends….
Happy Halloween from Empty Bottle Evenings! I hope that you enjoy your day carving pumpkins, dressing as a slutty cat or a flesh-eating Ben Carson, and trying but failing to pass out free candy because parents today are sadly afraid that every neighbor is either a pedophile or a serial killer and won’t let…
Many people are not yet aware that Ryan Adams can write his own songs since his fame has exploded recently only after covering Taylor Swift’s 1989, and most of those fans are probably not aware of anything but instagram, quinoa, and a combination of the two. But Adams has wrote literally hundreds of songs, and…
When Ryan Adams covered Oasis’s “Wonderwall” for his album Love is Hell, he made the song his own in a way that made Noel Gallagher admit that Adams was “the only person that ever got that song right”. It’s so hauntingly beautiful that no frat bro could ever attempt his version at 2am and that…
Earlier this week I mentioned how the Rocky Votolato song “Let Go” from the Kindred Spirit split EP with Chuck Ragan sounded like an old Ryan Adams song. The slow pace, the presence of drums, the seemingly elongated southern delivery reminded me much more of the songs from Heartbreaker & Gold than anything Rocky had released….
Disclaimer: This is not typically an album that I would recommend. I have to admit that it is a triumph of social media marketing that I’ve listened to this album at all. I first heard of Natalie Prass through a Vox article of all places. This then influenced me to research more (google) and…
Lately I’ve been listening to so many new albums that I was starting to get a little burnt out. I decided to just put all my old music on shuffle and listen to some songs that I actually know the words to so when I’m singing in my car I only feel 50% like an…
Holy crap, another year gone and I can’t believe it. Wait a minute. I can totally believe it. God, that took forever. If there wasn’t enough music to distract me I would have jumped in the ocean twice. Once because I was done living and the second time because it was the kind of year…
