January new releases are the trickle before the flood every year. Labels and artists assume everyone has shot their financial wad during...

Jeff Beck, David Crosby, and now Tom Verlaine. All within a span of a few weeks to kick off 2023. Something of a bleak start to the new...

It was all in his hands. I don't need to do a recap or explanation of Jeff Beck's career as a legendary guitar innovator, an anti-rock...

Okay gang, this is my last look back at the year that was. I had a few different ideas about how to put the final pin in 2022 but,...

This best-of-2022 batch includes the stuff record companies dug out of their vaults and released, often for the first time; remasters...

These are the 2022 releases that couldn’t be moved. They stuck like glue to my personal playlist when they first dropped, and stayed...

I decided on one last post before I start the deep dive into my “Best of 2022” lists. First, I wanted to offer my appreciation for a...

November is the month for indulgence, right? If we do it correctly, we have too much food, football, and if it’s an even-numbered year,...

I don’t typically dabble in negative reviews – life’s too short and there’s too much great music out there to talk about - but I was...

I’ve been on a serious Leonard Cohen binge lately, revisiting favorites and catching up on the records I missed the first time around....

“Jesus' blood never failed me yet, never failed me yet, Jesus' blood never failed me yet, there's one thing I know, for he loves me so…"...

Anyone who knows me knows this is a big one, probably THE big one. I’ve been an obsessed fan and unashamed apologist for the Stones since...

• Ronnie’s Setlists – In addition to being the luckiest sideman in rock history, Ron Wood’s got a decent side hustle going as an artist....

This series takes a look at a year at a time and gives a quick shout-out to a half dozen records that, to me, didn’t crack the public...

The national holiday for vinyl collectors, part two. RSD is back on its pre-pandemic schedule – the big day in April and a slightly...

How many really great albums are out there? Too many to count, too many for any one person to hear. For every album that becomes a big...

Any personal collection of music in a physical format is a quirky microcosm, both of the collector’s tastes and of the music world as a...

August was a pretty fine month overall, both for new music and old faves. In real life, I landed a new freelance music writing gig that...

Yeah, I get it, who buys music anymore? I thought about calling this series a Listener’s Guide instead. But I grew up accumulating music...

• The Curious Case of Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab - I know from a couple previous drafts of this post that it’s damn hard not to go into...