Shawn C. Baker

Budos Band live on KEXP - talk about a great way to kick off the weekend!!!  Watch: Last night, I headed out to my local Regal to ...

  Deeply moved to hear that Blackie Onassis from Chicago's Urge Overkill passed away yesterday at the age of 57. Ten years older than me...

Easily now my favorite of the records I received from Relapse Records by way of randomly getting their 20th Anniversary's Golden Ticket ...

 Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' score for the upcoming film La Panthère Des Neiges (The Velvet Queen) . You can pre-order the score from ...

  As we come upon the end of the year and I prepare to commit my ten favorite albums to print, I realized that I completely forgot Arab Stra...

  I totally missed the fact that Denmark's Møl released a new album earlier this year. I'm still fairly new to this band - my fellow...

  I don't even remember how I discovered Black Prism this past week, but I woke up ridiculously early this morning and while scrolling t...

  New Mastodon before year's end and it's a double-fucking-album! In general, double albums don't work out so well, but Mastodon...

How long do we have to wait until this new Zeal and Ardor album drops? The correct answer is too f*&king long!  READ: Thi...

  This song will never get old. One of the first Zeppelin songs I heard, back in high school when I discovered them, and still a favorite. ...

After discovering Death Valley Girls late last year via (I think) the Henry Rollins radio show on LA NPR WKRC and having a brief moment wit...

  Oh man, how did I miss this last July? Would have come in handy. NCBD: Here's what I'll be picking up today for New C...