Shawn C. Baker

  Big Sleep news. Matt Pike is out, replaced by Bubba Dupree of Void. Also, Dale Crover from Melvins on drums? This new track is interesting...

Well, thought I forgot about the whole "Seven Days of The Reverend Horton Heat," eh? That's because I 100% DID forget.  The ...

I think I first discovered Mascara via The Cinematic Void podcast, where, if I remember correctly, Nick Vance - whose band Double Life I ado...

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...