Monthly Archives: September 2022

You would think that I would be more excited about hitting milestones in this project, but I’m pretty much just shouting into the wind here. I think the best kind of celebration I can hope for is to get a bunch more good recommendations.

I have a TV producer friend who has been singing the praises of this group to me for years. They are a fantastic live band (I saw them at Bonnaroo a few years ago) and also have quite a prolific catalog, including the supremely entertaining Zonkey, which is a full album of really cool songContinue reading “#849 – Anchor Drops by Umphrey’s McGee”

This album provided some good, mellow Monday morning vibes on a Labor Day that is also the birthday of my younger daughter, Margot. A fun, celebratory day for all!

Most of our birthday weekend crew did not want to do two nights of concerts in a row, so we split into factions for last night. Most went to the Meow Wolf exhibit, but a couple of us went to see Phish at the legendary Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, a favorite venue among the Phans.

I am in Denver for the weekend with some friends to celebrate a 40th birthday. Last night we all saw Nine Inch Nails at Red Rocks, a glorious combination of a favorite artist and a bucket list venue. Add to that a crazy lightning storm that filled the sky behind the stage for most ofContinue reading “#846 – Heaven to a Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor”

I had never heard of these guys before I saw them a Coachella a while back. Their newest album at the time made it into my regular rotation for quite a while, but for whatever reason, they fell off my radar and I lost track of them. Of course, they continued to release music onContinue reading “#845 – Typhoons by Royal Blood”

The post-rock/ambient genre is becoming one of the most well-represented in this here blog-project. These guys have been a perennial favorite of mine for some time, ever since I saw them open for Nine Inch Nails at what was then known as the Staples Center back in 2013 or so.

Let us continue with yesterday’s theme of recommendations by a specific person with whom I have a decent amount of overlap in the Ven diagram of our musical listening habits.

A musician friend of mine recommended this and a few other artists to me that I would never have come across any other way. It’s so nice to have friends with such varied tastes, and who know that I’m always on the lookout for new albums. It makes this project a lot easier to keepContinue reading “#842 – self-titled by Wet Leg”

For most of my life, I had my back turned to anything that could be considered pop music. While there certainly is a decent amount of that genre that I could do without, there is also a lot that I now realize that I’ve been missing out on, especially in the realm of indie-pop fromContinue reading “#841 – Premonitions by Miya Folick”