Shawn C. Baker

  Helmet's Monochrome is an album that I've recently spent some time reassessing. When this came out in 2007, I had just moved to L...

  From the forthcoming album The Night the Zombies Came Out , dropping October 26th. Pre-order HERE . Post-reunion Pixies has been a mixed b...

My favorite track from a fantastic summer album Mr. Brown recently recommended to me, Rodney Crowell's The Chicago Sessions , produce...

Man, I was pretty skeptical when I heard High On Fire were having their first albu m, The Art of Self Defense remastered for a re-release....

  Really digging this new album from Colter Wall that dropped yesterday. Major props to Jonathan Grimm for turning me onto this guy. You ca...

  Jonathan Grimm drove down a few days ago and we had a fantastic extended weekend drinking beer, watching movies and bullshitting. Grimm is...

Hailing from France, Mascara is a band I know very little about. I picked this up after hearing the guys at Cinematic Void talk about the la...

New music from world-renowned drummer Antonio Sanchez. This is the first single off his upcoming Shift (Bad Hombre, Vol. 2) album, and ...

Now that I'm home and can partake properly, let's start things off in October with some Type O! This is the first time I'm exper...

  We lost a treasure when Charles Bradley died, five years ago today. I cracked out Changes a few weeks ago - it'd been a minute, and I...

  Yesterday marked the 22nd anniversary of Type O Negative's World Coming Down . I can still remember driving to Threshold Music in Tinl...

A lot of Cramps creeping into the rotation of late. Here's one from their 2003 Fiends of Dope Island . Watch: I've de...

  It was not until just last week that I realized Melvins had collaborated with Lustmord on an album. THIS is mind-blowing stuff. ...

  I'll never forget the first time I heard Metal Church. My second concert ever was at the World Music Theatre in Tinley Park, Il. 1991,...

After a recent text conversation with Mr. Brown, I fell down a Melvins rabbit hole yesterday. I hadn't heard 2010's The Bride Scre...