Shawn C. Baker

I'm on the fence on this one. While I love Loathe's 2020, I Let It in, and It Took Everything , the album cuts its Nü Metal elements...

Not gonna lie, I'm missing the weird Veils I fell in love with on Total Depravity . These last few releases have been so... heavy. And y...

  From the forthcoming album Signal Fire , out June 12th on Relapse Records. Pre-order HERE . NCBD: Here's my NCBD pull for ...

Mr. Brown, our friend Hellman and I hit the Forever Deaf Fest this past Saturday, thus rounding out my Chicago stint. We bought tickets for ...

Writing this Tuesday at 11L12 AM CST. Starting my first morning on the Southside with Black Sabbath's Paranoid . This is a regular ritua...

I am LOVING this new sunn O))) record! Something about the big, thick sonic slabs that these guys' music on vinyl produces as it leaks l...

New music from Monolord. I've always been a bit on the fence with these guys. Nothing on them, I think they came into my awareness at ...

  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...