Pretty Girls Make Graves The New Romance (Matador) I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; 2003 is the year that pop really returned. Not just in…
Pole Self-Titled (Mute) Well, this is the album that many have been waiting for. I know that I was originally excited when I heard that Stefan Betke was…
I mentioned the garden a long time ago, and despite a rather brutal heat spell a couple weeks back, it’s now growing and thriving more than it ever…
Many, many years ago, I found a CD in a markdown bin at a music store in the town that I was going to college in. It was…
It’s taken some time to come to terms with it, but it seems that I’ve always been a much better singer in my head that in real life….
I’ve been mulling over a post like this for some time now, but with the purchase of a new (used) bike about a month ago, it got me…
Quasi Field Studies (UP) Could Quasi be getting burned out on their own sarcastic wit? After hearing Field Studies, I highly doubt it. Although the instrumentation is both…
Although basic hints of frustration showed over the course of the past few years, it was during the last six to nine months that I realized writing music…
There are some things in my life that I’m oddly obsessive about, and one of them is writing down every book that I read; including the author, title,…
Back when I was in college, I wrote a music and entertainment column for the campus newspaper for three of the four years that I was there. At…
Pluramon Dreams Top Rock (Karaoke Kalk) Due to some strange glitch in the fabric of time and space (or the fact that I’ve never watched much television), I…
Red House Painters Songs For A Blue Guitar (Supreme) I’ve been a big fan of the Red House Painters ever since hearing their self-titled 1993 release. At the…
