I have to admit it has been a long while since I was excited about a new release from the Walkmen, but these early streams have me marking m...

Did you fill up on turkey and catch up with Grandma? Wait, wrong holiday. As for Record Store Day 2012, last Saturday, I felt a little li...

Let me start by saying if you haven't seen 'Let's Get Lost,' the 1988 documentary on the life and times of the late jazz tr...

As last post proved, for a few wonderful years there, Bobsled Records was one of the most exciting indie labels out there. Besides the afor...

We all have our Waxwings... one of those bands we love and, inexplicably, don't understand how they never really made it. I was enamoure...

When thinking of the Grass Roots, the thought that comes to mind is, as a youngster, humming along to the horn parts of "Temptation Ey...

This little bit of jangle really has my ear right now. "Capricornia" from Allo Darlin' is out as the first single from the ban...

This final post on 'C81' features the big boys of the compilation. They need no introduction, and the trio already had quite a bit o...

I could have gone a few directions here... his work as a producer or as a solo artist... but I'm sticking to Mitch Easter's early wo...

Sorry this is a day late, but I got caught up in some holiday activities with the family. Early next week I'll do one more post on '...

I was a little bit too young to get the legendary cassette when it came out, but I have wanted 'C81' for as long as I can remember. ...

I have gone on the record here that I don't like fIREHOSE's Columbia output quite as much as the trio's work for SST, but it...