I love vinyl, but I don't really consider myself a record collector. Some of us obsess about a wrinkle in the corner of a cover (and how...

In case you're new to this blog, Curtain Call is an occasional series where I present one of my favorite live albums for, well, a curtai...

In order to to salvage what little cool cred I may have, it would be easy to pass off the Primitives as little more than a guilty pleasure, ...

With Chin Chin, of course. The female Swiss trio knew the Shop Assistants quite well. They toured parts of Europe together back in the day a...

Are you free, Mr. Lucas? Wait, wrong shop assistants. These Shop Assistants weren't on the floor very long, but their small stock of son...

If my USB turntable continues to work, I'll stick with the early '80s power pop for a couple of more days. I have a soft spot for th...

Whenever I listen to early Joe Jackson, Rockpile, or 'My Aim Is True'-era Elvis Costello, I almost always think about following it u...

Ah, I just opened my email, and my day has been made. Thank you, dB's. This song, "That Time Is Gone," will be on the impendin...

Among the multitude of 12" singles in the collection, "The Look of Love" would, surely, at least make the discussion of my fa...

Today, the Hives released this video from 'Lex Hives,' the band's first album since 2007. That's an awfully long time to com...

I had been dreaming of Close Lobsters' April 27 reunion in Glasgow ever since I mentioned it in January. Of course, I knew I couldn...

I was bitten by the Komeda bug in 1996 when the Swedish outfit released 'The Genius of Komeda,' its first album in English. Along...