Sonic Youth: One of my longtime crushes. Their last two albums have not only been good, but some of the best music of their storied career. The latter of the two, 2004’s Sonic Nurse, continues where Murray Street left off, expanding and riffing on familiar themes and motifs recognizable to any veteran fan. The tracks […]

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Part III of the Soundtrack Enthusiast Series. For the most part I have enjoyed the majority of Cameron Crowe’s films…not so fast Elizabethtown. Having said that, Elizabethtown’s soundtrack — as the norm with all Crowe’s films — was good, especially the “road-trip” sequence toward the end. Below are some tracks post-Say Anything. Read part two: […]

The Rambling Canuck highlights some of his favorite underrated artists The Big Takeover Twenty-Five Years On: A Silver Anniversary Interview Sunny (Brooklyn) waxes poetic on New Orleans’ musical legends Between Thought & Expression tells us a bigass iPod is on the way Big Rock Candy Mountain continues it’s excellent Christmas tunes feature Exile On Hicks […]

“The Who is a bloody wild animal and it has to be fed chunks of raw meat and Southern Comfort. It can’t feed on anything less.” –Pete Townshend, New York Times, June 13th, 1974. The Who: bombastic, excessive, crude, vulgar, drunk, unfashionably fucking awesome. Through a vicodin haze (er, neck injury) I recently sat down […]

Long weekends are a slice of heaven. Long weekends coupled with Thanksgiving leftovers are one step closer. While going through some old records post-feast I happened upon Kathleen Edwards’ 2003 debut Failer. Failer is one of those albums that sounds like an old friend you haven’t seen in awhile, yet things pick up right where […]

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