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.
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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.
Saturday Spins: Dan Auerbach
An mix of rock, Americana, & 70’s style soul/psychedelic rock, from start to finish Dan Auerbach’s Waiting on a Song is truly a masterpiece.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Searching for Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman, best know by his stage name “Little Richard,” passed away yesterday at the age of 87.
Saturday Spins: Tom Petty Extravaganza
We all have those “someone is wrong on the internet, and I must destroy them” moments. Some more than others. Recently, myself and a few authors and friends of this website discussed the genius...
Saturday Spins: The Traveling Wilburys
For the uninitiated, the Traveling Wilburys were formed in 1988 by George Harrison (The Beatles), Jeff Lynne (ELO) Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty.
Saturday Spins: Gram Parsons
This week my toddler shook my phone and out popped the father of “Cosmic American Music,” or as the folks over at No Depression call it, “Alt-Country.”
