And we’ve made it to the third installment of my June Quick Takes. Here we have the releases that aren’t necessarily the biggest name artists that I wanted to make … Continue Reading June Quick Takes, Part 3: My Picks
And we’re back! I’ve finally decided to break my hiatus, and to get back into things I figured I’d do something similar to the Quarantine Quick Takes I did for … Continue Reading June Quick Takes, Part 1: Big Names
It’s that time again! Another month has come and gone. As always, I can’t get to everything, so there’s quite a bit of good music that I don’t get to … Continue Reading Good Albums I Didn’t Review in May 2020
THE 1975 – NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM Dirty Hit, 2020 Alternative/Pop rock After delays and much hype from the band themselves, The 1975 have finally delivered their fourth album … Continue Reading THE 1975 – NOTES ON A CONDITIONAL FORM album review
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT – REUNIONS Southeastern, 2020 Americana/Alternative country Today we’re looking at the new album from Jason Isbell. And it’s good, because it’s by Jason Isbell. … Continue Reading JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT – REUNIONS album review
WHITE DENIM – WORLD AS A WAITING ROOM Radio Milk Records, 2020 Psychedelic rock/Garage rock The COVID-19 outbreak has pretty much turned our world upside down. One area of the … Continue Reading WHITE DENIM – WORLD AS A WAITING ROOM album review
THE WRECKS – INFINITELY ORDINARY Big Noise Music Group, 2020 Alternative/Indie pop/Power pop This album showed up in a list of new releases for the week and I instantly recognized … Continue Reading THE WRECKS – INFINITELY ORDINARY album review
TRIVIUM – WHAT THE DEAD MEN SAY Roadrunner, 2020 Heavy metal/Metalcore This past week, metal was only a few albums away from being literally half of the new releases I … Continue Reading TRIVIUM – WHAT THE DEAD MEN SAY album review
THE STROKES – THE NEW ABNORMAL Cult/RCA, 2020 Indie rock/Post-punk/New wave I know, this is out of order in terms of release date. But I needed a little extra time … Continue Reading THE STROKES – THE NEW ABNORMAL album review
FIONA APPLE – FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS Epic, 2020 Art pop/Singer-songwriter When Fiona Apple drops a new album, the world stops and listens. I almost didn’t want to review this … Continue Reading FIONA APPLE – FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS album review
Alright, this should be the last one before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming. Who am I kidding? This thing has never been regularly scheduled. But you know … Continue Reading Quarantine Quick Takes, Part 3: My Picks
As is typical for me, the majority of what I end up listening to falls into the category of heavy music. So far this year, the ratios seem to be … Continue Reading Quarantine Quick Takes, Part 2: Heavy Stuff
BRANDY CLARK – YOUR LIFE IS A RECORD Warner, 2020 Country Given that we just observed International Women’s Day this past weekend, I figured I would feature one of the … Continue Reading BRANDY CLARK – YOUR LIFE IS A RECORD album review
TYCHO – SIMULCAST Mom+Pop/Ninja Tune Electronic/Downtempo/Ambient Okay, you’re getting a bonus review this week because I can’t compress my thoughts on this one down to a single paragraph for the … Continue Reading TYCHO – SIMULCAST album review
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – F8 Better Noise Music, 2020 Alternative Metal/Groove Metal/Hard Rock Normally, I don’t review metal albums so close together, but sometimes the universe throws something your … Continue Reading FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – F8 album review
JOHN REUBEN – self titled self released, 2020 Hip-hop In the very first lines of his 2017 comeback album Reubonic, John Reuben says “They say the best art comes from … Continue Reading JOHN REUBEN – self titled album review