Next Year in Music | 24 (And More) Titles You Want to Hear In...
Prognostications. Promises. And plain old wishful thinking. That's what you get from a lot of lookahead lists. Not this one, hoss. I'm keeping it 100 by only including albums...
Next Week in Music | Jan. 1-7 • The Long List: 110+ Releases On...
Here we go again: A new year of new tunes begins with this list of the 110-plus albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and...
Next Week in Music | Jan. 1-7 • New Books
DLR gets the MVP treatment, one-hit wonders get a second look, Sub Pop get eyed and more titles to open the New Year. Read all about ’em:
DLR Book: How...
Next Week in Music | Jan. 1-7 • On TV
You aren't the only one having trouble getting back up to speed after the holidays. Aside from a few daytime performances, most of the TV chatters are ringing in...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Baby, Can You Drive My Car?
One thing which complicates my own band practices is our bass player doesn't drive. In fairness, it doesn't really complicate things for me — the guitarist drives him. Still,...
Thunder Pie | At the Close of This Trembling Year
The year is winding down. Goodbye to all that. Raise a glass to yesterday. Raise another to tomorrow. We have persevered. We have survived. We have struggled and grown...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top Albums: The Long List
Another year, another bajillion albums, EPs, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, bootlegs and vinyl reissues. Here's every new release that found its way into my ears and onto...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top 123 Albums (Part 1: A-C)
The older I get, the harder it gets to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm becoming more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top 123 Albums (Part 2: D-F)
The older I get, the harder it gets to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm becoming more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top 123 Albums (Part 3: G-L)
The older I get, the harder it gets to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm becoming more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top 123 Albums (Part 4: M-P)
The older I get, the harder it gets to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm becoming more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top 123 Albums (Part 5: Q-S)
The older I get, the harder it gets to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm becoming more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top 123 Albums (Part 6: T-Z)
The older I get, the harder it gets to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm becoming more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
Rewinding 2023 | Area Resident’s Top Albums
I bought roughly two new albums per month this year. I say roughly because a few of them are doubles, triples or box sets. And while most of the...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top Interviews
I spent about 30 years interviewing musicians the old-fashioned way: Talking on the telephone, transcribing the tape (and then, eventually, the digital recording) and turning it all into a...
