Shawn C. Baker

From John Cale's 1974 masterpiece Fear . Cale's delivery in this song is haunting - it's both sarcastic and filled with a tired ...

When I say new, I should specify I am way behind on this one - looks like it dropped two weeks ago! Funny, as I just listened to Sound &...

I heard this at some point last weekend, and it struck me that I've never posted it here. I have loved this song as far back as I can r...

From 1987's The Lion and the Cobra . Outstanding song from an outstanding album. Makes 1987 feel so close I can almost touch it. ...

A few weeks ago, Mr. Brown asked me if I'd ever heard the Chicago band Ganser. I had not. I added a few records in Apple Music but didn...

  While looking around online for a vinyl copy of Mars Red Sky's 2011 eponymous masterpiece, I stumbled on yet another absolutely outsta...

  Greg Puciato has become one of the most interesting artists working in music today. Setting aside Dillinger Escape Plan as the legends sin...

  Man, this track takes me places. Some of those places are imaginary, and some are memory-laden ephemera from the early 2000s. Despite bein...

  Really digging this new EP from Spotlights. Order from Ipecac Records HERE .   NCBD: As of Monday, I'm fina...

  From 1973's Master of Reality , a perfect record. I leaned heavily into this one last weekend while in Chicago, so when I walked into ...

  PJ Harvey is one of my favorite artists. Has been since the 90s. Weirdly enough, I don't listen to her that often. In thinking about t...

  Heaven is an Incubator recently posted about the upcoming From Without EP that drops in January (pre-order HERE ). I'd never heard...

  New Order dropped an EP last Friday. Here's the first 'single.' Awesome tune, not at all where my head is at right now, but I ...

WHERE THE DARK SPEAKS by RUPERT LALLY I think calling Rupert Lally's Where the Dark Speaks a 'Stephen King' tribute is both ac...

Woke up with this one in my head yesterday morning. Originally appearing on 1973's Aladdin Sane , the version I'm specifically ref...