Shawn C. Baker

Aaaannnddd... the dream is over. Back to work today. I'd never heard of Demdike Stare before last Thursday night. We were sitting ar...

After a conversation with a friend, I'm really re-assessing this year's return of the band Daughters. Here's some live footage...

Wow. Just wow. I saw this dropped last night, stopped everything I was doing, put in headphones and closed my eyes, went off to Grimes Wor...

The video for Ghost's Dance Macabre dropped almost a month ago and, for the first time, I didn't immediately post it here. Truth i...

Man, feels like I just checked on the new Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats album a week or two ago and there was no pre-order up, then yesterd...

With all my elation at Windhand's Eternal Return dropping last Friday, I forgot High on Fire's new album Electric Messiah also hit...

I'm still debating on whether or not I'm going to listen to this one before the album comes out, but that's no reason not to s...

Jesus. I'm going to go broke with all the new music on the horizon. Good problem to have, eh? The new album is called Wasteland and th...

Holy cow, there's a new Cocksure album out! Listen to the way that synth comes in at 1:19 - old school never sounded so good! NCBD a...

Translating to "The Child of the Forest," I immediately feel a kinship here due to my old band The Forest Children's name. Thi...

Ghostland Observatory released a new album today. This is a band I very much dig, but who fell off my radar quite a few years ago. Good to...

I don't know what's more disturbing, the fact that it's actually been five years since the last album from The Ocean (they rel...

Windhand dropped the second single off the upcoming Eternal Return, out 10/5 on Relapse. You can pre-order this HERE . I for one cannot wa...

My favorite song of the year, thus far. And the entire album is, after an intense day of listening to almost nothing but, clocking in at #...

Fuck. Yes. They're not reinventing the wheel, and I don't care. Pre-order HERE from Napalm Records for an October 5th release. ...

This absolutely made my day! I've had a feeling for a while that a follow-up to one of my favorite records of the last ten years, Grie...

In just two days of sporadic listening, and after an initial and unfair dismissal upon its release earlier this year, The Body's I Hav...

New Nothing! The album drops on August 24th and you can pre-order it from Relapse Records HERE   and on their bandcamp . Playlist from ...

I just realized Tennis System has a new E.P. out the other day, and not long after Keller messaged me to ask if I was down to see them at ...

Well, it's 12:27 AM. I've officially called out from work tomorrow. Mental Health day. AND the new Deafheaven just dropped! and thei...