Shawn C. Baker

As is my custom to close out October and hail in the winter, here's Opeth's  Dirge for November.  From their masterpiece (well, one ...

Like Clockwork, here's the greatest Halloween song ever recorded! 31 Days of Halloween: GDT's Frankenstein is n...

Howzabout one of my favorite tracks by The Cramps to kick off Monday? I'm off Thursday and Friday this week, and you can betcher arse I...

From their self-titled, 1988 debut full-length album. This always sets the Halloween mood for me.  31 Days of Halloween: 1) I...

  The second track released from the upcoming album Ethereal Horizons , out November 28th on Debemur Morti Records. Pre-order HERE . ...

From the upcoming self-titled album, due out November 14th on Royal Mountain Records. Pre-order HERE . Honestly, a lot of what these guys h...

Full disclosure - adding this song from the 77s' 1984 album All Fall Down was an eleventh-hour switcheroo. In truth, I don't recall...

Can you feel it? October is in full dying mode. The plants K and I worked so hard to keep alive all summer long through the heat are succumb...

It hit me today (writing this on Sunday) that Ritual Howls' Into the Water will be ten years old next year. That, in retrospect, made me...

  Started my Thursday morning off with John Harrison's Day of the Dead Soundtrack. There is no way this album isn't a massive infl...

It is rare to find music that you instantly bond with. That turns a Saturday night at 12:30 AM at age 49 into an event you cannot turn off. ...

  I'm traveling, so I'm not as up-to-date as I'd like. Flew into LAX yesterday and it's been wham-bam since, with no slowing...