Shawn C. Baker

  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...

It only recently came to my attention over the weekend that Watain released a killer Live album last year, Die in Fire: Live in Hell Stockho...

A second single from the forthcoming album Wild God, out August 30th. Pre-order HERE .  This track is fantastic, but there's still som...

When I posted that Ships in the Night track last week, I fell down a rabbit hole that led me to the band Saigon Blue Rain. Instant infatua...

  Somehow, I totally missed that The Besnard Lakes released a three-song EP last year. The Besnard Lakes Are the Prayers For the Death of Fa...

Well, I totally fucked up Marty and Drexel's Live Music Week, so here's some new music from former 16 Horsepower's David Eug...

  "Mutha fucka must'a thought it was live music week. It ain't live music week, is it Marty?"  "Yeah, man. It's l...

  Another new track from the upcoming album Disharmonium - Nahab , out August 25th on Debemur Morti; pre-order HERE . This track reminds me ...

  Besides just being an awesome track, if you're watching FX's The Bear, you're probably picking up what I'm putting down. F...

  The first single from Baroness's upcoming album Stone , out September 15th. Pre-order HERE . Love this track - listen to Gina SHRED - ...

A lot of new music coming up lately, although some of it is only new to me. Case in point: that recent viewing of Guy Ritchie's Ro...

I don't think I ever noticed how much this track from 2002's Deliverance resembles Alice in Chains. It's the guitar, 100%. Ha...

  Seeing Zeal and Ardor tonight with some friends at the Echoplex!!!   NCBD: Still going to be another week before I return t...

  Continuing Peter Steele week, here's "(We Were) Electrocute," from 2003's Life Is Killing Me . I've always wondered ...