Album Of The Week: Selwyn Birchwood | Living In A Burning House

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Living In A Burning House is groundbreaking young blues visionary Selwyn Birchwood’s third album. The rising guitar and lap steel player calls his original music...

Album Of The Week: Lucero | When You Found Me

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Lucero’s When You Found Me reunites the acclaimed rock/alt-country quintet with Grammy winner Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Drive-by Truckers), who produced their 2018...

Album Of The Week: Weezer | OK Human

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "So 2020 was going to be the year of Van Weezer — the big riffs rock album Weezer made as an homage to the metal...

Now Hear This: Fullminator | Omniplasm

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Fullminator are a crossover thrash-metal band from the future (and also San Juan, Puerto Rico) that take all the excitement of party music and elevate...

Now Hear This: French Cassettes | Rolodex

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “French Cassettes are a harmony-driven power-pop foursome from San Francisco. The quartet’s new LP Rolodex is filled with hooks and rooted in pop, layered with...

How Hear This: Fang | American Nightmare

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "More than 20 years after it was recorded, the long-lost 1998 album American Nightmare by punk legends Fang has finally been released digitally for the...

Now Hear This: Fana Hues | Hues

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "When singer-songwriter Fana Hues was a child, illness took away her voice for almost five years. “I had scarlet fever, tonsillitis, and strep throat at...

Now Hear This: Ed The Dog | Untitled.crashed.crashed.crashed

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "After the breakup of his previous band Fish Tank, quitting his day job as an admin assistant, and the subsequent quarter life crisis, Ed Wetenhall...

Now Hear This: Doug Carn | Jazz Is Dead 005

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Doug Carn’s newest project, his entry in the Jazz Is Dead album series helmed by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, takes his unique and...

Submission Accomplished | 9 Winners From The Digital Mailbag

Thanks to the inexplicable popularity of my Submit Music page, I always have a digital backlog of albums, EPs, singles and videos awaiting my perusal. Here are the latest...

Classic Album Review: Dolly Parton | Little Sparrow

This album came out a couple of decades ago. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Some unenlightened folks out there may still think of...

Classic Album Review: Dieselboy | The 6ixth Session

This album came out a couple of decades ago. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Damian Higgins grew up playing the drums, breakdancing and...

Classic Album Review: Godhead | 2000 Years of Human Error

This album came out a couple of decades ago. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   If you notice that Godhead’s post-industrial goth-metal grind bears...

Classic Album Review: Alice Cooper | Mascara & Monsters: The Best of

This album came out a couple of decades ago. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Not enough of an Alice Cooper fan to shell...

Classic Album Review: Charles Mingus | The Very Best of

This album came out a couple of decades ago. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Even the liner notes to this compilation acknowledge that...

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