Shawn C. Baker

SO RAW...SO NASTY...SO HIDEOUS by FEEL THE KNIFE I've never heard Feel the Knife until just now, but after trying to make it through T...

  From the upcoming album  Feed the Fire , out August 2nd on Artoffact Records.  I'd never heard Nox Novacula before, but I'm diggin...

  Cold Cave is pretty hit-or-miss with me. I adore 2011's Cherish the Light Years but haven't really clicked as hard with any of th...

One of the records Mr. Brown lent me in our recent record swap is The Flesh Eaters 2018 album I Used to Be Pretty . Holy cow, is this a bu...

  I've been on a bit of a Smiths kick lately, and it was cool to see David Fincher's new film  The Killer  pretty much use their gre...

Budos Band live on KEXP - talk about a great way to kick off the weekend!!!  Watch: Last night, I headed out to my local Regal to ...

  I'd never heard of British electronic artist Sampha until Mr. Brown messaged me about him a few days ago. Upon checking out his new al...

  I'm fairly certain I posted this track here at some point in the distant recesses of the past. This is the track that made me a fan of...

I've always dug Chino Moreno's other band, †††, but for whatever reason, their music has never hit me the same way the Deftones does...

Rein was the first act we caught at Cold Waves 2022 last weekend. Amazing set - to get up on stage and perform without the solidarity of ...

  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,...

  Here Julee Cruise's haunting vocals and Angelo Badalamenti's equally compelling music provided the soundtrack to one of my favorit...

 From the Split Single Sing Each Other's Songs for You , on which King Dude does a very sedate but ultimately charming version Rockin...

 Talk about bad news to wake up to. Julee Cruise's voice and visage has been a part of my inner world ever since the night Twin Peaks ...

  From 1987's Sign O' The Times , probably my second favorite album by Prince, who died six years ago today. Something about this a...

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

  This song is an absolute classic. It's not going to profoundly affect any of our lives, but damn if it isn't a near-perfect pop-ro...