Albums Of The Week: Jason Isbell | Southeastern 10th Anniversary Edition
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Jason Isbell’s songs are filled with ghosts. They're haunted by spirits both welcome and unwelcome, by the personal and historical legacies that make us who...
Albums Of The Week: Green Day | Dookie 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Green Day’s third studio album Dookie was released in February 1994, and has since sold over 15 million copies worldwide, including 10 million in the...
Albums Of The Week: Stepmother | Planet Brutalicon
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Spearheaded by legendary underground guitarist Graham Clise (Witch, Annihilation Time, Lecherous Gaze, Rot TV), Oz outliers Stepmother have just released their debut album Planet Brutalicon.
Channelling...
Albums Of The Week: Dictator Ship | Electric Jihad
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Dictator Ship are back! In 2020, the band released their excellent debut Your Favorites, winning praise from fans and media alike. Now the Swedish foursome...
Albums Of The Week: Cherry Glazerr | I Don’t Want You Anymore
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It’s been four years since Cherry Glazerr released their resplendent third album Stuffed and Ready, but Clementine Creevy has been in no rush. “I’ve spent...
Albums Of The Week: Blonde Redhead | Sit Down For Dinner
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In spring 2020, Kazu Makino encountered a passage from Joan Didion’s 2005 memoir of grief, The Year of Magical Thinking, which reflects on the au¢thorʼs...
Albums Of The Week: Animal Collective | Isn’t It Now?
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “After nearly a quarter-century as one of its generation’s most daring and defining bands, Animal Collective remain committed to the beginner’s mind.
The band’s structure has...
Albums Of The Week: Various Artists | The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project: The...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Nearly 10 years in the making, The Task Has Overwhelmed Us is the long-awaited fourth volume in The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project series. Conceived...
Albums Of The Week: Grateful Dead | Wake Of The Flood 50th Anniversary Edition
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In 1973, following the recent passing of founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and the temporary exit of drummer Mickey Hart, Grateful Dead released Wake Of...
Albums Of The Week: ’68 | Yes, and...
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The raucous duo Josh Scogin demurely undersells as “rock ’n’ roll with a kick in the pants” is named ’68, after the Camaro the Atlanta...
Albums Of The Week: Wilco | Cousin
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “I’m cousin to the world,” Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy confesses. “I don’t feel like I’m a blood relation, but maybe I’m a cousin by marriage.”
Produced by...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Most Ontario Record Ever?
For $9, I couldn't resist. My record collection is kind of thin where The Yardbirds are concerned. I have a nice mono pressing of Roger The Engineer and I...
Classic Album Review: Jeff Foxworthy | Double Wide, Single Minded: The Best of Jeff...
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If you buy this,...
Classic Album Review: Vendetta Red | Between The Never & The Now
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
These days, punk bands...
Classic Album Review: Balzac | Beyond The Darkness
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
In the finest Japanese...