Shawn C. Baker

As the wait for the next Perturbator album announcement languishes on into June, I find myself drawing even more inspiration from his previo...

  I rewatched Ryan Kruger's Street Trash sequel this weekend, and it put ten Althone back on my radar. LOVE this track. You can support...

It occurred to me while watching Tony Hawk's " What's In My Bag " on the Amoeba music YouTube channel that it's been q...

  From their first album in 30 years, Near-Death Travel Services , out June 27th on Relapse Records. I pre-ordered my copy from the Relapse ...

  From Calexico's fourth studio album, Feast of Wire . This one is a masterpiece. Well, most of Calexico's records are, but as I lis...

Live from Birmingham, Alabama, courtesy of the Live from Birmingham YouTube channel . I have been meaning to head down to Birmingham since m...

  After falling pretty hard for Year of No Light's 2021 album Consolamentum , these guys have been off my radar for a while. Last week I...

I finally had a chance to sit down and watch my copy of last year's Criterion Collection Gummo . Still one of the ugliest yet also most ...

  Post-Metal - remember when that term was everywhere? Hydra Head Records (RIP) introduced me to a lot of great bands in the late '00s, ...

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...

  Helmet on KEXP! Thank you to Mr. Brown for sending this my way. Fantastic seeing Hamilton and his current band slice through a nice, tight...

P.M. Dawn's 1991 album  Of the Body, Of the Soul and the Cross: The Utopian Experience is now available on streamers!  I talked a lot a...