Shawn C. Baker

  Discovered this randomly yesterday. Badass - to hear Layne do Ozzy's introductory, "All right now!" just puts a Horror-movie...

  One of those records that changed my life. Happy Birthday, Dirt. Love You!!!

  From the forthcoming album, I Want Blood , out October 18th. You can pre-order a copy HERE . Jerry Cantrell kind of blows me away these d...

  Why not? The oddest and to some, a throwaway track from Alice in Chains' 1992 acoustic EP Sap . I love this one, and have long marvele...

I don't think I ever noticed how much this track from 2002's Deliverance resembles Alice in Chains. It's the guitar, 100%. Ha...

  Thirty years ago today. I'm floored. I really wanted to pick up the new vinyl release to commemorate the anniversary, however, I cann...

  I have Alice in Chains on my mind. Mr. Brown often clues me in on the Pitchfork Sunday Review, where every Sunday a writer looks back on a...

  Alice in Chains' "Nutshell" has always been a devasting song to me anyway, but hearing Lanegan sing it a few days after lear...

One of my favorite current bands covering one of my all-time favorite band's best songs. Magic. After this and that Flaming Lips cover o...

Music: Wow. This just blew me right the F&*K away. This year's Underneath is already on the shortlist to be on my top ten albums...

Two albums after this song made its way into the world on Black Gives Way to Blue it gets a video, and I'm reminded how much this b...

My favorite song of the year, thus far. And the entire album is, after an intense day of listening to almost nothing but, clocking in at #...

New Alice in Chains went up earlier this week. I haven't listened to it yet, not suer that I'm going to until I can hear it in the c...

How weird that the first time I dig out 2013's The Devil Put Dinosaurs here in a couple years and then write about it , is the same da...

It is my opinion that Alice in Chains never had a bad album until The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here. Now, I like pretty much all the songs on t...

New album God Put Dinosaurs Here out May 28th!

Whoah. Thanks to mxdwn for this tip off.

As I come to the end of Mark Yarm's wonderful book Everybody Loves Our Town I find myself drawn once again back to my favorite band fr...

I'm posting this without even listening to it as I'm at work and the computer I'm on does not have speakers. After Black ...

Morning? Afternoon? The only reason I know its not night is the sun is out, otherwise who knows. Hard to get the old brain working ri...