Shawn C. Baker

  Doves have a greatest hits coming out, and that's great. I'm not really a greatest hits guy (there are a few), but this... what th...

I was unfamiliar with Nova Twins until I saw Kirill Sokolov's They Will Kill You last Thursday and then again yesterday afternoon. This ...

Was in the mood for some old school, mid-career Slayer, and this is what I landed on. From their 1990 album Seasons in the Abyss , the last ...

I thought I'd post a song and a card for the next year of my life, or perhaps to sum up the half-century that's served as prelude ...

Calling it now - there's almost no way anyone will release an album I love more than the new and totally unexpected Gnarls Barkley recor...

Nocturnal Womb by Blackbraid New Blackbraid EP is out today! You can order a copy right here on their Bandcamp for Bandcamp Friday!  Blackb...

  This past Monday morning, it was raining when I woke up. It wasn't just raining - it was raining in that not-quite-winter, not-quite-s...

From their now ten-year-old album Gore . Been a while since I've listened to this one, and one listen put it right back into regular rot...

When I posted a new track from Myrkur back on January 28th , we did not yet know if more music would follow. Here then is the answer.  Sort ...

  New album Good God/Baad Man, out April 3rd. You can pre-order from Nuclear Blast Records HERE . Sounds good up real loud. Would you expect...

  I've really been 'feeling' CDs lately. I think January/February always inspires me to return to a state of mind that reaches t...

From John Cale's 1974 masterpiece Fear . Cale's delivery in this song is haunting - it's both sarcastic and filled with a tired ...

I hadn't thought of Swann Danger in quite some time, but I pulled out an old CD wallet the other day in the car, saw this and instantly ...