Time to play catch up - spring is gone, summer's here. I’ve been listening to and living with a lot of new releases over the last few...

I've been feeling like Mr. Teflon for the last month or so. I’ve been listening to my weekly batches of new releases and none of them are...

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

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....

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...

This list’s pretty self-explanatory, just a couple of quick things to mention. I included films that are pretty much all live performance...

I took a slightly different approach to this roundup. I tried to put myself in other's shoes and rank these records in order of...

Time to get caught up on the last couple weeks of new releases before the new batch arrives tomorrow. These are the records that stuck on...

Lou is in an elite category of musical heroes for me. Like the Stones, Miles, the Beatles, a few others, I lost all ability to be...

Some new discoveries, some old favorites. Here are the albums that got stuck on my personal playlist in May. No particular order, I just...

I’m kind of inventing my own category for this post. It was triggered by spinning a couple of albums on this list recently. These are...

I totally loved these guys when they first arrived in the late 70s. Their first few albums were like a breath of fresh air in the time of...

If you need any convincing that women are having an impressive commercial impact on the music industry these days all you have to do is...

New releases are in full swing now, racing along in pre-pandemic numbers. Bands are touring again, so they want their records out. Some...

Those of you who read these posts or know me personally are aware that I have a decent-sized vinyl record collection that I cherish. I’ve...

Mick Jagger once famously sang “I need a shot of salvation, baby / once in a while.” Apparently, that’s true even for a heathen like me,...

Bowie’s catalog is a tough one to assess over the long haul. He continued to make excellent albums up until his death in 2016, but from...

New releases are finally starting to roll out in earnest in 2022 and a few have been stuck in my personal rotation since they arrived....