One of my regular reads is Uncle E's Musical Nightmares (and it should be yours too!). One thought provoking post earlier this week on t...

This song is taken from a promo U.S. 12" of the "Motorcrash" single, circa 1988. On the surface, pretty unspectacular. DJ cov...

We are about to be hit with a flurry of intriguing new releases. Here a few that have caught my ear because the labels have been kind enough...

If you haven't heard the Danish pop outfit Northern Portrait, the 10" EP 'Pretty Decent Swimmers,' out this week via Matiné...

Former Haircut 100 frontman Nick Heyward had two minor successes in the '90s... one on each side of the pond. Here in America, it was ...

Mrs. LTL! will be home soon. Time to shelve the Scritti Politti, but let's squeeze in one more. I'm going straight to one of the gr...

The song that got me into Another Sunny Day was "Anorak City," a Sarah Records single from '88 that appeared on a C86 compilat...

Yes, I'm a wild man. Green didn't have the perfect way to make my girl go crazy. She hates Scritti Politti... and not just the ...

Even though he is one of my all-time favorites (top 10, for sure) and my excitement is off the charts, I wasn't going to comment on the ...

On celluloid, the Psychedelic Furs will always be remembered for the theme to "Pretty in Pink," a vastly inferior rerecording of a...

These are sad but all-too-familiar days here in Rain City. A couple of days ago we learned a Seattle institution, Easy Street Records, woul...

Well, that didn't take long. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm filled with anxiety when I release my year-end lists because...