Shawn C. Baker

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

'Nuff said.   NCBD: I've spent a bunch of time tightening up my Pull list for the coming months, and I'm happy to ...

I know it's summer now, as one of the rituals that eased in last year during my first full summer in Tennessee was Black Sabbath's...

  One of the best covers I know and perfect for this rainy lead-up to Halloween. 31 Days of Halloween: 1) When Evil Lurks/VHS 85/Ada...

  From 1973's Master of Reality , a perfect record. I leaned heavily into this one last weekend while in Chicago, so when I walked into ...

Just because it fucking rules!!! Watch: Andrei Tarkovsky has only ever barely been on my peripheral, but thanks to Criterion C...

  Quite possibly, my favorite Black Sabbath song. Although that is probably as difficult to stick by as a mother picking a favorite child. ...

For my fellow Sabbath Lads. Ozzy has never sounded so serene. Watch: The season opener of John Favre's The Mandalorian...

Last Friday, seminal LA punk rock group X released their first album with the all-original line-up in, well, I don't really know ...

Despite the holes in my memory that surround my viewing of Andy Muschietti's first chapter of IT,  I'm excited as hell for the seq...

If you read the notes available in the description panel for this on youtube (or just go HERE and read it in full), the ideology, methodo...

With Al Cisneros from Shrinebuilder/Sleep! I talked a bit previously about my friend John being in town. This is John of Jonathan Grimm ...

No music in my head this morning and I'm enjoying the quiet by sprinting through a couple chapters from this very enjoyable romp through...

3:20 AM Thursday, May 18, 2017: I wake up sweating as the last of this damnable sickness that has stopped up K and my lives for the last wee...

Coming back home to my native environment in the Midwest during August is a toss up, however it's one that's worked pretty much t...

I'm re-posting this from my favorite music blog, the brilliant Heaven is an Incubator . I had no knowledge previous to this of the ...

It's raining in LA and I'm celebrating with Black Sabbath Vol. 4

One of my favorite Black Sabbath songs. This all-star line-up consisting of Geezer Butler, Zakk Wylde, Charlie Benante and Corey Taylor...

The thing that initially caught my eye when I read about In Solitude on Brooklyn Vegan for the first time this afternoon ( here ) is th...

Some of my favorite things in the world are the Liner Notes in old Black Sabbath albums. There's something so... clinical and pragmati...