Once again, I’m turning this in a few days past deadline. No matter! It’s still not too late to celebrate 2013, which in my musical…
Weird, right? The year’s already half over. I say this every July, but this year really and truly has been zipping by even faster than…
What can I say? My favorite albums contain my favorite songs. Go figure.
Here is this year’s obligatory list-making, by the numbers: 3 Bay Area acts 6 solo female artists 2 re-united ’90s bands A ton of vaguely…
Wow, I am late getting this up. Everybody knows “best of the year so far” posts are supposed to by up by July 1, no…
The album is dead. Long live the album. Increasingly, my listening habits tend to revolve around individual tracks, so I tried to adjust my year-end…
I’ve only had a year and some change to really immerse myself in the Bay Area music scene, and I’m still feeling my way around…
I don’t know about you, but for me, 2011 was not a year of discovery. Most of the songs that bubbled their way to the…
When my own band was trying to come up with a name, I started keeping a list of odd word combinations that I’d read somewhere or that had come up in conversation. Most of them were so ridiculous that I never even considered presenting them to my bandmates. I saved them only for my own amusement. And now I present them here for your amusement.
In a category usually dominated by schmaltzy duets, it’s a pleasure to see a stompin’, southern gothic, traditionalist shit-kicker like “Barton Hollow” nominated.