This is a sampler playlist of songs from my Best Albums of 2017 list. Enjoy, Explore, and Share Music!
Read MoreAustralia's 'Cable Ties' just released their self-titled debut album on Poison City Records and it is really good stuff. Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!
Read MoreA new mixed-tape style playlist featuring great music from Nine Inch Nails, Single Mothers, Love & Rockets, Hallelujah the Hills, Pere Ubu and many others. Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!
Read MoreCherry Red Records recently released a box-set of hard to find early UK punk rock classics called Action Time Vision.
If you love punk music or are interested in the history of punk and post-punk music, you will love this 111 song box-set (it is awesome).
Enjoy!
Read MoreHere is the music news that I cared most about for 12/20/2016
Today Pinegrove does something AWESOME, True Vision = 7-minute heroes, and why South Park is still super funny (I'm super cereal).
Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!
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This is my weekly Spotify Playlist.
This week it includes songs from Killing Joke, Suicide, Sad13, The Blind Shake, Deerhoof and many others.
Explore, Enjoy, and Share Music!
Read MoreA Show that captures the rise of hip-hop in 1977 NYC? Didn't I already write hundreds of pages about a show like that? Wasn't that last year?
I hate to admit it, but in many ways, the new Netflix series "The Get Down," got more about the rise of hip-hop right than did HBO's Vinyl.
Here are five things "The Get Down" got (really) right!
Read MoreThis is my Saturday YouTube playlist, I tried to focus mostly on fun songs today.
Lots of old fun friends like the Dead Milkmen and Mojo Nixon!
Enjoy, Explore, and Celebrate Music!
Read MoreWe lost another true music Giant today in Prince Nelson Rogers.
I have been a fan of his most of my life, to say I am sad would be an understatement. Here is my attempt to celebrate an artist who had a HUGE influence on my life.
RIP Prince Nelson Rogers, condolences to his family, friends, and the rest of his fans (like me).
Read MoreI love that Rolling Stone is encouraging people to explore more punk music. I even endorse many of the entries on their recent "10 Modern Punk Bands" list.
Here are links to many of those artists and several more that I recommend you check out too.
As always, Explore, Discover, and Enjoy!
Read MoreThis is my recap of Episode 9 of HBO's drama Vinyl. They called this episode "Rock and Roll Queen."
I am calling it 2 + 2 = "Record Man"
In this week's episode, Richie decides to come clean to some and becomes truly visible to others, Devon makes important choices, and The Nasty Bits get, well, Nasty.
Read MoreThis is my Episode 8 Recap of Vinyl (HBO). I call it Music Lessons for the "Record Man"
This week we learn about traditional chord progressions, Chuck Berry, Johnny Thunders, and Richard Hell. Meanwhile, Richie joins the cast of Goodfella's and Serpico while still fantasizing about Conway Twitty.
Enjoy!
Read MoreAfter 20 (22) entries, I am bringing my All-Time Albums series to a halt.
Find out why, and check out the first 20 posts in this series all-over again.
Read MoreEvery Wednesday I post an All-Time Album.
This week's All-Time Album is "The Clash" by The Clash
Enjoy!
Read MoreEvery Wednesday I post an All-Time Album.
This week's pick is DEVO's "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO"
Come on pinheads and spuds, enjoy!
Read MoreEvery Wednesday I tell the story of my relationship to an All-Time Album.
This week's album is "Dig Me Out" by Sleater Kinney.
Enjoy!
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