New Tom Waits: Boots on the Ground (with Massive Attack) Video: Massive Attack / Tom Waits – “Boots on the Ground” Single out now. 12-inch due July 31. If you were expecting Tom Waits to mellow out with age, you’re in for a surpri…

New Tom Waits: Boots on the Ground (with Massive Attack)

Fake It & You Make It: Music in the 21st Century A recent story in Futurism should make us all take a deep breath. Or maybe not. A “philosophy YouTuber and writer Jonas Čeika,” Victor Tangermann writes, performed an experiment in which…

Fake It & You Make It: Music in the 21st Century. By Stephen Macaulay.

Threefer Thursday: Jack White, SNL Five-Timers Club As of two Saturdays ago, Jack White has been the musical guest on Saturday Night Live (SNL) 6 times. That’s not including the 50th anniversary music special he performed on in early 2025. His 5th t…

Threefer Thursday: Jack White, SNL Five-Timers Club. By Mike V.

Music, Money & Milk “Stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song”— Joni Mitchell, “Free Man in Paris” There are probably very few people in the developed world under the age of 50 who aren’t at the very l…

Music, Money & Milk. By Stephen Macaulay.

Threefer Thursday: Hit Me, Fred! Hit Me, Fred!: Recollections of a Sideman is the title of trombone player Fred Wesley’s autobiography. I picked up a copy a while back — on eBay, it’s out of print — and have been…

Threefer Thursday: Hit Me, Fred!. By Mike V.

Lost Classics: Minnie Riperton – Come To My Garden Minnie Riperton: Come To My Garden (9/23/1970) It’s hard imaging the world where Minnie Riperton grew up compared to the ethereal and otherworldly landscape that’s displayed on her 1970…

Lost Classics: Minnie Riperton – Come To My Garden. By Todd Totale.

New Paul McCartney: Days We Left Behind Video: Paul McCartney – “Days We Left Behind” From The Boys of Dungeon Lane, out May 29 om Capitol. Good ol’ Macca. He’s been a sentimental type since he was a teenager when he so…

New Paul McCartney: Days We Left Behind. By Derek Phillips.

Born in the U.S.A. Video: Bruce Springsteen – “War” and “Born in the U.S.A.” Live From Minneapolis, March 31, 2026. This is where we are. On March 31 Bruce Springsteen opened his “Land o…

Born in the U.S.A.. By Stephen Macaulay.

My Vinyl Solution: Second Round Well alright it’s been a little over three months now since I decided to listen to all of my records. I’ve been doing it in roughly alphabetical order. And by my count as of today I&#82…

My Vinyl Solution: Second Round

Threefer Thursday: New Robyn Hitchcock + Covers Video: Robyn Hitchcock – “I Am This Thing” From The Confuser, out July 24 on Tiny Ghost. Surrealist singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock has a new album coming out! The Confuser is set for…

Threefer Thursday: New Robyn Hitchcock + Covers. By Mike V.

What’s That $ound? The Southern District of New York has handled a number of high-profile cases. There was Bernie Madoff, who had a Ponzi scheme that is considered the largest financial fraud in history: on the order…

What’s That $ound?. By Stephen Macaulay.

Threefer Thursday: The Nude Party Covers Up The Nude Party is a seven piece indie rock band that formed in Boone, North Carolina when the band members were students at Appalachian State University. They released their debut record – Th…

Threefer Thursday: The Nude Party Covers Up. By Mike V.

New Spatulas: Flowers Video: The Spatulas – “Flowers” Video by Miranda Soileau-Pratt. From A Blue Dot, out May 15 on Post Present Medium. Two minutes and seven seconds of a perfect handful of sweetness…

New Spatulas: Flowers

New Sincere Engineer: Cooler Video: Sincere Engineer – “Cooler” Directed by Kodak Chris. Single out now on Hopeless. The last time we checked in with Deanna Belos she was considering leaving Chicago. By the l…

New Sincere Engineer: Cooler

Artifact(ual) Singles remind me of kisses Albums remind me of plans “If I Didn’t Love You” Difford and Tilbrook   One of the features in the automobile industry that probably has more attention paid to it w…

Artifact(ual). By Stephen Macaulay.

Threefer Thursday: Remember Live From Here? Do you remember the show “Live From Here”? You might not… It was short lived. Running from 2016 to 2020, it started in St. Paul, MN and moved to NYC in its last year. It was a replaceme…

Threefer Thursday: Remember Live From Here?. By Mike V.

Collections & Concerts One of the things record collectors know is that while a single album in its jacket doesn’t seem particularly substantive from a dimensional point of view—12.375 x 12.375-inch height and width; 1/8…

Collections & Concerts. By Stephen Macaulay.

New Tracey Nelson: Dolly’s Coat Video: Tracey Nelson – “Dolly’s Coat” Single out now on K/Perennial. Tracey Nelson is the name of the band. According to a blurb, it’s Austin Noll’s mother&#8217…

New Tracey Nelson: Dolly’s Coat

Threefer Thursday: Some Choice Live Wilco Jams As you surely know by now, Wilco has announced a summer “An Evening with Wilco” tour – no opener, just two sets of Wilco jams each night. Like a Grateful Dead concert. Is that exciting, or wh…

Threefer Thursday: Some Choice Live Wilco Jams. By Mike V.

Die Spitz: Throw Yourself to the Sword Video: Die Spitz – “Throw Yourself to the Sword” Directed by Emily Sanchez. From Something to Consume, out now on Third Man. What am I hearing? Sugar? Mastodon? Foo Fighters? Porc…

Die Spitz: Throw Yourself to the Sword. By Chris Vreeland.

Lost Classics: Buddy Guy – Sweet Tea Buddy Guy: Sweet Tea (Silvertone, 5/15/2001) Buddy Guy was sixty-four years old when he entered the Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, Mississippi to record his eleventh studio album. Guy had released a …

Lost Classics: Buddy Guy – Sweet Tea. By Todd Totale.

There’s No Business Like Show Business Spy Magazine was launched in October 1986 and ran until the late 1990s but its first five years, under editors Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter, were its best. Spy, which had as its descriptor “Sma…

There’s No Business Like Show Business. By Stephen Macaulay.

Lost Classics: The Wedding Present – Bizarro The Wedding Present: Bizarro (RCA, 10/23/1989) By Autumn of 1989, Leeds’ The Wedding Present had accumulated enough material from leader David Gedge to schedule studio time once again with pr…

Lost Classics: The Wedding Present – Bizarro. By Todd Totale.

No Kidding Waffle House Legend Award winner, 2020, Kid Rock has had quite a career that has been on the downward slide since about 2011. In 1998 his Devil Without a Cause album sold 14 million units. His next…

No Kidding. By Stephen Macaulay.

New Joe Pernice: Deep Into The Dawn (ft. Aimee Mann) Video: Joe Pernice – “Deep Into The Dawn” (ft. Aimee Mann) From The Black and the Blue, out April 3 on New West. This is super pretty. And Aimee Mann’s harmonies are gorgeou…

New Joe Pernice: Deep Into The Dawn (ft. Aimee Mann)

Threefer Thursday: It’s Erykah Badu’s Birthday! Erykah Badu was discovered and signed when she was opening for a young D’Angelo in 1994. She is a critical artist in the development of what is known as neo-soul or progressive soul, which draws it…

Threefer Thursday: It’s Erykah Badu’s Birthday!. By Mike V.

New Kim Gordon: Dirty Tech Video: Kim Gordon – “Dirty Tech” Directed by Moni Haworth. From Play Me, out March 13 on Matador. First of all, God bless Kim Gordon. Always and forever. She’s been a pillar of co…

New Kim Gordon: Dirty Tech. By Derek Phillips.

New Killer Mike: Spying Eyes (Smiling Faces) Video: Killer Mike ft Lena Byrd Miles – “Spying Eyes (Smiling Faces)” From The Gray House – Original Soundtrack From The Amazon Series, out now. Killer Mike – the killer of mics –…

New Killer Mike: Spying Eyes (Smiling Faces). By Mike V.

Meet the Pendletones Ethan DuVeaux. The Hi-Tones. Solid Jackson. Theola Kilgore. The Sensationals. Marc Cavell and The Classmates. Eddie Lemarie. The Pendletones. These are among the acts that released records in the e…

Meet the Pendletones. By Stephen Macaulay.

My Vinyl Solution: Listening to Records Twenty years ago I gave away all my records to a pal. I actually kept about fifty, mostly stuff that was sentimental to me in some way. Oh, and I kept all my 45s. But I got rid of my LPs. Why? A co…

My Vinyl Solution: Listening to Records