Shawn C. Baker

  From Calexico's fourth studio album, Feast of Wire . This one is a masterpiece. Well, most of Calexico's records are, but as I lis...

  Helmet on KEXP! Thank you to Mr. Brown for sending this my way. Fantastic seeing Hamilton and his current band slice through a nice, tight...

You know you're getting up there when your favorite, most influential post-High School albums start turning 30. How is Teenager of the Y...

 From Calexico's EXCELLENT Seasonal Shift record, which Mr. Brown gifted me several years ago, and which has become a seasonal favorite....

2019's Hidden History of the Human Race put Blood Incantation on a lot of people's radar, mine included. I dug the record, but prob...

Since there was never any exact day of death released, March 1st denotes the beginning of the month when one of the most talented artists ...

  Here's one K found recently and I am completely enamored with. If you're like me and feel compelled to make "Best of the Year...

  From 2023's post-script collection of covers Snake Oil, here's Frank Black and the Catholics doing Bruce Springsteen's "...

From Rodney Crowell's 2021 album Triage . Mr. Brown and I have been doing record swaps for the last year or so; I lend him six, and he f...

If you know me, you will be surprised to see me posting an Eric Clapton track here. Outside of "Layla", I am NOT a fan. But a few ...

Early last week, my good friend and former Schlitz Family Robinson bandmate Sonny V. sent Mr. Brown and I this track from Australia's...

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

From Alice Donut's 1994 Live at CBGB's album Dry Humping the Cash Cow . Fantastic double-disc capture of Donut in their prime. Mr....

  From the new album Re-Industrialized . My good friend and cohost on The Horror Vision Butcher mentioned the new Fear Factory was getting ...