Category: Listen


  • Bones Record Review: Holo Boy by This Is Lorelei

    Quick disclaimer: My record reviews are not genuine “reviews” in the sense that I don’t have an arbitrary scoring system and I don’t even try to come across as objective. Or even cohesive. I only write about things that I’m stoked on here, so you can expect that all my reviews will be just me…

  • 10 Great Albums of 2025

    10 Great Albums of 2025

    It’s the end of the year and all the music rags are putting out their “Best Albums of 2025” lists, and I want to participate like I’m a cool music rag too and not just some dork on his computer awkwardly struggling to be hip by saying “music rag.”   This is not a definitive list…

  • Bones Record Review: The Yips by Petey USA

    Quick disclaimer: You can consider this a review of the Petey USA album The Yips or The Yips (A Case Of), as the latter is The Yips plus some extra tracks. It really doesn’t matter which one is the subject of my review, though, since my reviews always end up being self-indulgent rambles about myself…

  • Bones Record Review: “AVTT/PTTN” by The Avett Brothers and Mike Patton

    When I first read that the beloved folk/Americana luminaries, the Avett Brothers, were working on a collaboration with Mike Patton, I wondered who is this other folk/Americana musician who shares a name with the maniac genius frontman of legendary bands Faith No More and Mr. Bungle among numerous other projects over the past 3 decades?…

  • Bones Record Review: “When I Woke” by Rusted Root

    I remember seeing the video for Rusted Root’s “Send Me On My Way” on MTV back in the early/mid 90s, around the time the album “When I Woke” was released. I would have been a freshman or sophomore in college, and I recall it being a very dichotomous initial experience. First, I was mildly repelled…

  • Bones Record Review:  “Getting Killed” by Geese

    For those who don’t want to go through my long-winded ramble of Geese’s new album “Getting Killed” below and just want to get a quick nugget from my great taste in tunes, here’s your tldr:  This album is goddamn tremendous.  I’m enamored after just a few listens and I’m certain this is going to be…