You may recall earlier this year Marshall Crenshaw used a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for an EP subscription series, and his fans c...

Well, that didn't take long. Close Lobsters released a new 7" single on Saturday. I wish I could tell you to hurry over to Rough Tr...

I suppose we all have hundreds of songs that would fit on a post such as this, but these are three examples of taking the Beatle influence t...

It's usually pretty entertaining to listen to the recordings assembled at the beginning of artists' careers to shop around to labels...

Here is the last single recorded for 2 Tone, and it's one of the least ska sounding songs the label ever produced. "Window Shopping...

As you probably know, 10 days ago Shout Factory! released a good-looking five-CD box set on the English Beat called 'The Complete Beat....

Where's Bjork when you need her? I heard a new song straight outta Iceland I really like, but I can't find much information on the b...

If there was one thing the excellent deluxe editions of the Pavement catalog proved, it was that the band's B-sides weren't throwawa...

I have gone on the record many times that my favorite album out of Scotland is 'High Land, Hard Rain,' but Aztec Camera certainly h...

It's not just another Monday. After a few weeks on hiatus, The Vinyl Villain is due back today, and I think this feeling that somethin...

If blogs could be infested, my recent post on the Wake would have been filled with the sound of chirping crickets. I haven't had fewer ...

My recent obsession with all things Dexys has brought me to this post on the TKO Horns. As you may know, the brass section got its start as ...