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Photo by me. I’ve seen Bob Mould dozens of times (and we were once blogroll buddies waaaay back in the early aughts) and I love all his sol...

  I had planned on doing a Quick Spins today over at Third Coast Review, but since next Friday is Bandcamp Friday I decided to hold off unti...

Every once in a while I feel like I should be more in it, y’know. For decades my life was pretty non-stop, keeping me kinda in the “center”...

I was cleaning some things up on ye olde site, testing the links in the left nav (if you're on desktop) and clicked through to the music...

Every couple of months another news outlet or two discovers the growing archive of online concert recordings made in Chicago by longtime tap...

A scene from today's lunchtime excursion. The latest episode of Invincible has a song that straddles the line between darkly driving an...

We saw Hundreds Of Beavers —a movie I have already gushed over in this space —on the big screen last night for the first time! The Davis The...

Artemis II crew photo by NASA/Josh Valcarcel Sure, the news has picked up on it today, but NASA launching a rocket to orbit the moon for th...

Photo by Sebastian Buzzalino I stumbled across Daniel Romano 's prodigious output over the pandemic and he had me hooked from the start....

As the mists of time slowly drew apart as cable television burned its way into our hearts in the late '70s and early '80s, there wer...

Photo of Robyn by me. It's been 8 long years since we last got a full-length Robyn album. That changed today with the release of Sexist...

Phot by me, from a long-ago Gorillaz tour. I’ve been a fan of Gorillaz since the days of digging through the bins at Virgin or Tower in 200...

I do not envy folks that have had to cover the Lollapalooza lineup announcement over the last couple of years. I attended and/or covered the...

Since the pandemic and my withdrawal from much of the social activities I participated in, I have at times started to feel like a forgotten ...

It's Bandcamp Friday which means I reviewed 6 brand new or recent albums for you to check out (and give the artists 100% of your money ...

I recently upgraded my copy of Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains from DVD to the new 4K version (and boy oh boy it's a beaut o...

I finally listened to the conceptual mash-up album from dk darkly that merges selections from the Daft Punk and Justice catalogs together t...

With Wuthering Heights entering many conversations recently, driven by its latest cinematic adaption, I would like to take the opportunity ...

The crowd at Double Door for The Sounds in 2009. I see Double Door is pivoting their plans and looking to recreate the venue in a smaller s...

Photo via the official INXS Facebook page One of my bigger regrets is skipping the INXS show at Rosemont Horizon I had a ticket to in the v...