Shawn C. Baker

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...

Caught this on Michael Stock's Part Time Punks on KXLU this past Thursday (there's a link via KXLU that archives the playlist for ...

Holy cow. A good friend sent me a link to this 2017 album Songs of Love and Death by Me and That Man . Dark, fuzzy, gothic country, this ...

... is going to serve as the episode that marked my fervor for this season. Without treading into spoiler territory, the scene with a cert...

I'm digging the Beachhouse/Smiths feel here. Foals is a band my interest has pinioned back and forth on. Their new album,  Everything ...

Whoah. Thanks to my good friend Missi, I finally read Stephan King's Pet Sematary about five or six years ago. It immediately became m...