Saturday Spins: Jeff Tweedy’s Love is the King
Jeff Tweedy’s Love is the King spins, and we discuss hype stickers and why it is a never-ending war to remove and preserve them.
Author: Christopher Bradley
Saturday Spins: Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Session
What is unique about this album is that Cowboy Junkies played and sung around a single ambisonic microphone in the church.
Songs About John Henry
It’s been a slow news week so come with me on a journey into American folklore to a story we all kn–wait, what’s this coming in through my earpiece? The President of the United...
Ryan Adams Cleared by the FBI
While Adams still has the pall of being an asshole hanging over his head, none of those come with possible felonies attached.
Sunday Spins: Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett
Kurt Vile is one of America’s great underrated songwriters and Courtney Barnett has released a few really great records over the past half decade or so
Legendary Hip Hop Artist MF Doom Dead at 49
MF DOOM, the mysterious rapper known for impossibly intricate rhyme schemes and his signature mask, has died at the age of 49.
2020’s Best Albums
As a general rule, popular music, e.g. whatever Spotify, radio, and record companies drive people to listen to, will not be discussed here.
Christmas Spin: Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, and Run Rudolph Run
Ho Ho Ho! A special Christmas spin of a song popularized by the father of rock-n-roll and covered by many many others.
Saturday Spins: John Prine’s Common Sense
It’s unfortunate that we lost John Prine this year. He is up there on my singer-songwriter Mt. Rushmore with Dylan, Petty, et. al.
Saturday Spins: Leon Bridges Good Thing
Leon Bridges occupies a space or two because I dig his particular brand of soul. It’s not too poppy, and it isn’t too experimental to seem like it’s a parody.
On Marketing Bob Dylan
A lot of this can all be explained with one simple phrase, 1960s Bob Dylan is not the same Bob Dylan of today.
Saturday Spins: Son Volt’s Notes of Blue
You know when you’re dealing with the blues, you’re gonna have to eventually deal with the devil.
Thanksgiving Spin: The Last Waltz
Celebrating Thanksgiving with one of the world’s greatest vanity projects ever, The Band’s The Last Waltz
Saturday Spins: Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
This was my Dwight Yoakam gateway drug…I like guitars, Cadillacs, and depending on what one considers “hillbilly music,” I like that too.
Saturday Spins: Rage Against The Machine’s The Battle of Los Angeles
This week the randomizer was in a bit of a mood and spat out an excellent record from my youth: RATM’s The Battle of Los Angeles
Saturday Spins: Dawes North Hills
Have you ever had the opener actually being better than the main act? While Dawes was performing, we knew they were something special then.
Best Meal I Ever Had: Philadelphia’s The Victor Café
There are hundreds of really great places to eat in Philadelphia, and I am really glad to have experienced this one.
Saturday Spins: The Beatles Rubber Soul
I know I placed the “underrated” moniker on this album, but that is through the lens of a casual fan of the Beatles, not a fanatic.
Saturday Spins: Steve Earle’s Ghosts of West Virginia
Earle’s goal on this album was to cut through a lot of that and attempt to understand, not condescend to, the dualities that exists in one state in particular, West Virginia.
Saturday Spins: Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin III turned 50 years old on Monday. However, many of the songs contained herein are timeless classics.
