Shawn C. Baker

Tom Waits and Massive Attack??? Holy Christos - this is... wow. Just wow.  No idea if this is harbinger to a full collaborative album. Most ...

I am LOVING this new sunn O))) record! Something about the big, thick sonic slabs that these guys' music on vinyl produces as it leaks l...

I was unfamiliar with Nova Twins until I saw Kirill Sokolov's They Will Kill You last Thursday and then again yesterday afternoon. This ...

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...