We are rapidly approaching perhaps the most consequential election cycle in American history. The crossroads that our nation stands at has terrifying implications for humanity and the world will be watching with bated breath. We’ve gone further down the road towards fascism than most Americans would have thought possible, which speaks to our own naiveté. Continue reading “#144 – Paranoid Cocoon by Cotton Jones”
Category Archives: indie
#136 – The Stand Ins by Okkervil River
A personnel change in a band can go any number of ways. For some acts, the lightning-in-a-bottle aspect of their creative path is completely lost when a certain lineup is no longer together. Perhaps the new members aren’t as connected with the music, but something has been lost, maybe forever. And then there are otherContinue reading “#136 – The Stand Ins by Okkervil River”
#109 – Soft Times by Matt Duncan
While having dinner at a friend’s home this evening, he drew my attention to and sang the praises of the album that was playing, by his friend Matt Duncan. As you may or may not have noticed, when an album is dropped into my lap like that, I take the opportunity to not have toContinue reading “#109 – Soft Times by Matt Duncan”
#107 – Falling Asleep At The Wheel by Holly Humberstone
Amid months and months of truly awful news almost all of every day, there are moments of hope sprinkled around. The arrest of Steve Bannon provides a mild amount of hope that our legal justice system still exists and can be applied to rich white men. Who knows if it will lead to anything –Continue reading “#107 – Falling Asleep At The Wheel by Holly Humberstone”
#106 – Mermaid Avenue, Volume III by Billy Bragg & Wilco
Our Kevin Bacon game, so far: The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney produced – and is the husband of – Michelle Branch, who was featured on Santana’s “The Game of Love.” On a later album, Santana collaborated with Metallica, who backed up Lou Reed, who was in The Velvet Underground with John Cale, who wrote anContinue reading “#106 – Mermaid Avenue, Volume III by Billy Bragg & Wilco”
#105 – Lovers by Nels Cline
Our Kevin Bacon game, so far: The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney produced – and is the husband of – Michelle Branch, who was featured on Santana’s “The Game of Love.” On a later album, Santana collaborated with Metallica, who backed up Lou Reed, who was in The Velvet Underground with John Cale, who wrote anContinue reading “#105 – Lovers by Nels Cline”
#96 – Hopeless Romantic by Michelle Branch
I was reading the wiki for The Black Keys last night when I discovered that Patrick Carney had produced the most recent album by Michelle Branch, to whom he is also married. It made me think of doing a Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-style run with the blog. I’ll add to and include a one-sentenceContinue reading “#96 – Hopeless Romantic by Michelle Branch”
#95 – Let’s Rock by The Black Keys
Today is the 25th anniversary of the death of Jerry Garcia, so I spent much of my listening time today on Grateful Dead shows. I did, however, just pick a Jerry Garcia Band album on his birthday and don’t want to be repeating an artist at this point in the life of this blog. IContinue reading “#95 – Let’s Rock by The Black Keys”
#92 – II by Unknown Mortal Orchestra
I don’t mean to be giving free advertising to Spotify, but it has been such a great platform for discovering new artists. These guys were suggested when I played a Tame Impala song at work and became the perfect lunch hour soundtrack. These daily installments of new music have been a nice mini-retreat for aContinue reading “#92 – II by Unknown Mortal Orchestra”
#90 – The End Of Comedy by Drugdealer
I had to take a little break from writing about current events because I was getting so angry all the time, but after our fearful leader’s latest embarrassing exhibition of cognitive well-being, it’s hard to think about much else. Free discourse is one of the benchmarks of any so-called democracy and it is up toContinue reading “#90 – The End Of Comedy by Drugdealer”
New Album A Day 