Monthly Archives: January 2023

If I’m being honest, I only listened to this band because of their name. My curiosity was definitely rewarded, because I liked what I heard.

One of this blog’s proudest traditions is to listen to an album by an artist that I learned about because of the death of one of their members. This one is a little more surprising because of the era that they came up in (the late 70s/early 80s), which is a period that I amContinue reading “#955 – self-titled by The Specials”

How many bands can you name that hail from Saskatchewan? Now I know one for sure, an indie outfit that takes its name from a small town in Manitoba. This has really turned into a Canadian geography lesson.

A buddy of mine saw this band at LA’s Teragram Ballroom recently. It’s an awesome little Art Deco nightclub venue on the edge of Koreatown that I have always enjoyed – and actually went to last weekend for the first time in years. Anyway, his review of their show was pretty positive, so I hadContinue reading “#953 – The Healing by Ghost Light”

I saw these guys at Coachella last year, where they put on a great show. They have the energy and stage presence to command a really large audience and I’m sure they’ll be playing arenas in America before too long, as they already have been in Europe for some time.

I’ve been slowly picking over a bunch of different websites’ best albums of 2022 lists, which has both been a fun, ego-boosting exercise and a great resource. Despite the quite varied artist selection, I actually listened to a decent amount of the picks, at least on the Guardian top 50, which gives me a minorContinue reading “#951 – Nymph by Shygirl”

Anitta performed on a show that I’ve been working on – Amazon’s Thursday Night Football Concert – and was pretty entertaining. She is probably one of the fittest performers I’ve ever seen, and has a pro athlete cardio level. The performances on this show happen on a sound stage in Hollywood that has a festival-sizeContinue reading “#950 – Versions of Me by Anitta”

This Swedish act has been putting out great psychedelic rock for over 20 years now, and I’ve been really enjoying their whole catalog. I thought I had discovered something to introduce to one of my more friends with well-rounded musical tastes, but of course he was already familiar.

This band, also formerly known as just Suede, originally gained notoriety as one of the “big four” of early 90s Britpop, along with Oasis, Blur and Pulp. Those are some heavy hitters to be mentioned in the same sentence as, and it certainly seems like that was well-deserved. They also apparently took part in aContinue reading “#948 – Autofiction by The London Suede”

I thought I was somewhat well-versed in the music of the 90s, but time and again I have artists brought to my attention that further highlight just how narrow my frame of reference was at that time. Who knows how differently my musical experience could have been if I had delved into the indie sceneContinue reading “#947 – There’s Nothing Wrong With Love by Built to Spill”