Shawn C. Baker

  Wow. I hadn't heard The Beta Band in ages, let alone their big single "Dry the Rain." Then, sitting in my coffee shop writin...

  Four for fucking four. Wow. To quote Mr. Brown, "I can't believe I'm looking forward to a new Metallica album." You and ...

Wow. Three for three on this new Metallica album.  Going back to Hardwired, I've become a HUGE fan of this record, and I'm just kind...

  I'll say this: while I'm not favoring this track nearly as much as I did "Lux Aeterna," I can't help being fascinate...

  Maybe I'm just in a holiday mood, but I think I actually dig this new Metallica song. This would then be the first new song by the ban...

  I'm not a fan of the Black album. In fact, everything that came after that album makes me not want to be a fan of this band at all. Ho...

Kind of a slow news day, so to speak, so I landed on this via Brooklyn Vegan. Apparently, Metallica has been doing "Metallica Mondays...

Has it really been two weeks since I saw Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? That show and the Bad Seed's performance of Shoot Me Down inspir...

Had this pretty little ditty in my head when I woke up, probably because it's used in a fantastic film John and I watched last night. ...

Stumbled onto this earlier tonight and ended up getting fairly absorbed in it. Gonna have to break Justice out sometime soon. Been a min...

If CERN's P.A. is on the fritz, a new, GOOD record by these guys might herald the end of all things What the hell has gone wrong wi...

I never thought I'd be posting a Metallica song on this blog - certainly not one written after 1988. But I'll be damned if this i...

This is amazing!!! Mr. Brown just sent this to me, immdiately upon hearing it I knew I had to repost it for everyone's comedy enjoymen...

... and Metallica, rise against and RHCP to balance out the good with some blah. But hey, it's their fest, right? Congrats to FIDLAR -...