I’m so glad the PR guy didn’t respond to my request for an advance review download of Sun Araw’s latest album, Ancient Romans . He repre...

Alfred Hitchcock may be one of the best-known directors in the world, but this film – one he often referred to as his favorite of his own f...

My wife’s father died about a month ago. This is obviously something we all have to go through. It isn’t unique to any person, but the ...

Last night we had the pleasure of hosting an in-store performance with one of my favorite local bands Snake Rattle Rattle Snake.  In celeb...

I love to listen to Sam Cooke’s Live at The Harlem Square Club so loudly that my ears are ringing by the end of it. When it’s playing...

The consensus seems to be that the Meat Puppets’ second album, Meat Puppets II , is their best. Nirvana covered a few songs from it for thei...

Twist and Shout has a long love affair with  Keb'   Mo'.  His first album came out in 1994 when we were still at our first locatio...

For a few years (at least the 16 I’ve spent dabbling in various film-stuffs) I’ve adopted the moniker of Constant Watcher for the obviou...

I know you’re not supposed to judge a record by its cover, but the second I saw Matt Valentine’s What I Became I knew it was somethin...

One of the best things about record collecting is the whole discovery aspect, the way you can venture off in any direction into music ...

More than other San Francisco group of the 1960’s Country Joe and The Fish extolled the virtues of LSD. They openly sang about taking i...

ADAM:    Despite my plans to see a whole mess of bands at this year's UMS, I only managed to make it down Saturday night and didn...