Category: Listen
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My younger brother Chris introduced me to Crooked Fingers’ first album over twenty years ago, describing it as the “dude from Archers of Loaf (Eric Bachmann) making great songs about drunks and vagabonds and down n’ outs.” Chris and I were deeply into our own vagabond-ulation phase at the time. Seduced by Charles Bukowski’s poetic…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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?…
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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…
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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…