Saturday Spins: Bright Eyes
I texted my good friend and told him it sounded like early Bright Eyes, but with better production and sound engineering.
Category: Music
Heavenly! Charles Avison
After first hearing this thoroughly lovely piece, I was surprised to learn that it was written by Charles Avison, an English composer I’d never heard of.
Sunday Spins: The Texas Gentlemen
Do you like Little Feat? The Band? Early Sir Elton John? Then you will for sure like this little band from Texas
Review: BT’s “The Lost Art of Longing”
25 years in, BT has never had an album that felt like a consolidation of strengths…just a new tentacle. This is the consolidation album.
Saturday Spins: The Weird
What does a disgraced Vice President, break dancing, and an international farting contest have in common?! They are all on records on my shelves
Downvote: Spotify’s Assault on Artists
For those of you that are unfamiliar, Spotify operates on the most unsustainable economic model in probably the known universe
Saturday Spins: Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways
With this release Bob Dylan became the first artist to chart in the Top 40 in seven consecutive decades
Saturday Spins: Pantera
A lot of thrash metal just rock the f*&$ out, but a band like Pantera contains a bit more refined artistry than one would expect
Saturday Spins: Ryan Bingham
There are till people that listen to mainstream country music when Ryan Bingham exists, and that is a problem that I am trying to personally remedy.
Sunday Spins: Black Pumas
I am pretty excited to discuss this week’s spin, though. I first heard about and heard Black Pumas while watching Austin City Limits
Remembering The Ice Age
Vanilla Ice was trending…Wait, no, that was 30 years ago. Dang. Has it been that long since I first checked out the hook while his dj revolved it?
Forest Music: A Review of Other Other by Seabuckthorn
Angels, I am told, sing in clear, pure tones. Man, on the other hand, sings in roughened, time-weathered voices.
Saturday Spins: Warren Zevon
Have you ever put on an album and it absolutely blew your mind? That is a basically what happened to me when I first heard this week’s Saturday Spin. Last week, I discussed Ryan...
Saturday Spins: Ryan Adams
Let’s talk a little bit about Ryan Adams’s Gold and why it is a landmark record.
Saturday Spins: Operation Ivy
Operation Ivy was only a band for 2 years, 1987-1989, and as I have often said before, burned bright, but flared out quickly.
Saturday Spins: James Gang and Joe Walsh
Before he was the yin to Don Felder’s yang in The Eagles, Joe Walsh was a member of an extremely underrated trio, James Gang.
The Time Mike Took Me To The Gathering Of The Juggalos
Vice President Michael Pence has musical tastes for which the adjective eclectic is an understatement, and led us down some strange, old town roads.
Saturday Spins: The Clash
I am going to, and this will be somewhat controversial, proclaim that Combat Rock is second only to London Calling in the definitive ranking of albums by the Clash.
On Pound-Foolish Creativity
There’s a lot of penny-wise, pound-foolish creativity in the world–I’m here to tell you making real investments in your creativity can make all the difference.
Saturday Spins: Jason Isbell
Put this song on…I was a puddle after hearing it. Since I am a narcissist like Jason Isbell we are gonna make this about me.
