Category Archives: Music You Should Know

THE BLACK KEYS - PEACHES! Peaches! is The Black Keys pulling their amps back into the garage and dusting off the records that made them want to start a band in the first place. Their fourteenth album ...

PETER GABRIEL - LIVE AT WOMAD 1982 In 1982, the first WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) festival took place to highlight music and art not typically celebrated in the mainstream. As part of the b...

THE COCKROACHES - "ROUGH AND TWISTED" The worst kept secret of Record Store Day was a slim white sleeve containing a single from The Cockroaches. Even without knowing the history of The Rolling Stones...

PETER GABRIEL - "TILL YOUR MIND IS SHINING" Peter Gabriel has always been an esoteric music maker; his ability to make the quirkiest songs hits is uncanny. It's like he lives in an alternate world and...

COURTNEY BARNETT - CREATURE OF HABIT Courtney Barnett has built her career on observational slice-of-life, and Creature of Habit continues that tradition with warmth and wit. The songs are unmistakabl...

THE CHARLATANS UK - SOME FRIENDLY (EXPANDED EDITION) Some Friendly is one of those albums that helped define an era, and usher in another British invasion in the '90s. This reissue of the Charlatans' ...

BRIGITTE CALLS ME BABY - IRREVERSIBLE A few years back I was at SxSW at a fairly empty venue when a band kicked off their first song sounding like a mix of Morrissey and Arctic Monkeys. At the time th...

THE BLACK CROWES - A POUND OF FEATHERS The guitar is screaming, the guitars are muted and fuzzy, high hat is sharp and tight for The Black Crowes return. A Pound of Feathers has that Southernrock swag...

MORRISSEY - MAKE-UP IS A LIE As someone who has purchased tickets to a Morrissey show that would inevitably get cancelled, I always approach news about the artist with hesitant optimism. So, I was han...

THE BAND - THE BEST OF THE BAND (REMASTERED VINYL REISSUE) The Band called it quits with a bang with a giant goodbye show (featuring Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young to name a few guests) on T...