Shawn C. Baker

From Simon Waskow's incredible score for Tilman Singer's  Luz . I love this film, and a lot of that love comes from the score (not t...

  I had no idea this existed until just now. Love it (even if I'm not interested in reading the series; I'd rather just re-read the ...

  Live on Conan O'Brien in 1995, shortly after MacGowan was sacked from The Pogues for 'alcohol-related' issues. I have no exper...

Before The Pogues, MacGowan fronted a band with Shanne Bradley called The Nipple Erectors (subsequently shortened to The Nips). I first disc...

  Thanks to Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot's Sound Opinions podcast, I realized last night that I had completely missed the fact that Chica...

From Rodney Crowell's 2021 album Triage . Mr. Brown and I have been doing record swaps for the last year or so; I lend him six, and he f...

  I've been on a bit of a Smiths kick lately, and it was cool to see David Fincher's new film  The Killer  pretty much use their gre...

  One of the best covers I know and perfect for this rainy lead-up to Halloween. 31 Days of Halloween: 1) When Evil Lurks/VHS 85/Ada...

  From the live album RockinnReelininAucklandNewZealandXXX (Live). A stellar example of how awesome and bizarre The Cramps were.  31...

  Wow. Taking another page from a recent post by Heaven Is An Incubator, I dove into Sexores, a  Quito, Ecuador two-piece that skews toward...

  From their 1983 live album, Smell of Female , here are the immortal Cramps with a song I think a lot of Horror fans can relate to. I'd...

  From the forthcoming album God is a Woman , out November 30th. You can pre-order the album from Rein's Bandcamp HERE . I first discov...

Traditionally, my love of Joy Division becomes particularly strong in Autumn. Or at least that's how it was before I moved to L.A. Well...