Shawn C. Baker

The order is, for the most part, negotiable by day. However, Orville Peck's Pony is absolutely the best and my favorite record of 2019....

Jarvis Cocker released a new version of his 2007 track Cunts Are Still Running the World just in time to "celebrate" the electi...

Blood Red Shoes' 2019 album  Get Tragic  is one of those albums that just missed being on my Top Ten Favorite Albums of 2019 list. And...

From the album Pony , which is most definitely in my top ten favorite albums of 2019. Where's it rank? I'll be posting my list wit...

It gives me infinite pleasure to have finished Season Three of Veronica Mars last night - the episode ends with this song - and wake up t...

New Grimes track! I reluctantly listened to this - while I'm chomping at the bit for the album and can't help but listen to every ...

Five days ago: in the car, a cover of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill comes on KROQ and mildly annoys me. I erroneously dismiss it a...

First album in something like five years drops on Warp Records, January 31st. Before that, however, and advance 12" titled Vortrack d...

I've been swimming in David Bowie's final album again; it's perfect for my headspace at the moment, which I can only describe ...

We now have a release date for the long-awaited next Grimes album. Miss Anthropocene will be out February 21st, and you can pre-order it ...

Holy cow. A good friend sent me a link to this 2017 album Songs of Love and Death by Me and That Man . Dark, fuzzy, gothic country, this ...

Yes, I post this song every year. I will continue to do so for the rest of my time on Earth. Nothing sets the Autumnal mood for me like th...

What better way to build up to Halloween than some Goblin, from the 2013 Tour E.P. ** 31 Days of Horror: 10/01: House of 1000 Cor...

The description of this album is one of the more intriguing musical ideas I've seen expressed by any band in recent memory. This is ki...

Praise be to the might Bloody Disgusting for plastering this one on their front page, right where it belongs! Not sure what to even say. ...

The Art of Sleeping Alone by Oh Baby Recently picked this up from Burning Witches Records , which is distributed via Mondo/Death Waltz. Su...

I finally made it around to really listening to the new Jenny Hval album, The Practice of Love . Wow. The opening track, Lions , put me th...