Monthly Archives: June 2023

How about a little pirate metal for your listening pleasure? If you’re familiar with the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse, these guys sound like Dethklok playing sea shanties (shantys?). If a song called Fuck You With An Anchor doesn’t pique your interest, you might just not be that into metal, I suppose. Or pirates.

I took my 5-year-old daughter to the LA Natural History Museum today to see some real dinosaur bones, which was a super fun way to spend a couple hours. She ran around with her tablet taking pictures of everything she thought was cool, or of anything she wanted to show to her mom or littleContinue reading “#1141 – the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety by toe”

This album was recommended to me by the Spotify algorithm, in all its glory, which has rarely if ever let me down. It knows me so well. How could I resist the debut album of an artist who is such a DIY guy that he makes all of his instruments himself, including woodwind and brass.Continue reading “#1140 – self-titled by Dan Reeder”

Amid a text chain discussion of the merits of the album Obscured By Clouds, I noticed that I had never listened to More. I’m not going to pretend that this era of Pink Floyd is my favorite, but there are plenty of bright spots throughout these precursors to their worldwide stardom. For the record, IContinue reading “#1139 – More by Pink Floyd”

I overheard an Instagram video yesterday that featured California Dreamin’ and realized that I’ve never listened to an album by these guys. In fact, despite my awareness of the group pretty much since I have been aware of music, I really only knew two or three songs from their catalog. So interesting how a songContinue reading “#1138 – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears by The Mamas & The Papas”

The pride of Wichita, Kansas, The Embarassment was one of the first bands to release music through Sub Pop. This album is their first proper full-length offering, released in 1990 about 7 years after breaking up (reunited in the late 80s).

It’s been a while since I’ve done this, but today I went back to a classic NAAD selection technique: learning about an artist because of their death. I read about the passing of Big Pokey, a legend in the Houston hip hop scene, last week, along with many tributes from some heavy hitters. Whenever thisContinue reading “#1136 – The Hardest Pit In The Litter by Big Pokey”

I was just listening to an older song by these guys and wondered what has become of them. They were pretty huge for a while there and had some of the coolest music videos around. I’d never listened to this album, which was their last release and is now coming up on 10 years sinceContinue reading “#1135 – Hungry Ghosts by OK Go”

While I was working at a Juneteenth festival on Monday, my wife and daughters went to see The Little Mermaid, which was the kids’ first movie theater experience. Their reviews have been so positive that I started looking up other stuff that Halle Bailey has done, which led me to this album, her third releaseContinue reading “#1134 – Ungodly Hour by Chloe x Halle”

Not sure how I have overlooked this album until today. Obviously, I’ll have to do some digging to find out about other collaborations that Björk had done.