Glam-Racket

My record collection is waiting for your admiration. Admittedly, there’s a part in every music collector’s ego that secretly wants a fellow ...

I think this topic has been addressed on this blog before, but I recently examined my musical past and determined the top ten albums that ut...

Resolution 1: Watch more boxing I suppose I can fill you in on the personal shit now. Things are good and I’m glad 2005 is over. Moving. Sta...

I ignored pretty much all of 2005. After the 'W' got elected for a second term, I disconnected. I'm only now getting around to...

I’ve been holding on to this thing over a month now and I can’t really keep it to myself anymore. I’m talking about the upcoming Cat Power ...

Let’s get this straight: I’m more of a fan of Dylan ’s “rock” period than his early “folk” period. I can appreciate his folk material and th...

“Year Of Meteors,” Suzanne Vega ’s first album since “Days Of Open Hand” is not as good as Beth Orton ’s “Carbon Glaciers” and…ok, I’ll stop...

Boy howdy! When I was in high school, I had a tremendous crush on Kate Bush . Seriously. I imagined that it was me instead of Houdini she wa...

As the title of this post suggests, I would much rather be writing about the new “comeback” Captain Beefheart album. But then again, one co...

I can give you examples of how/why labels like SST , Homestead , Touch & Go , and maybe a few other indie patron saints, were so essenti...

A.C. Newman ’s “The Slow Wonder” was one of the Baker’s Dozen from last year and it looks like he’ll make it again this year with his Candia...

It was there. The proverbial pink elephant: would we witness another, much documented Chan Marshall meltdown on stage? It was a conversatio...

The Minutemen once said “industry, industry we're tools for the industry/ your clothes in their laundry bleached of identity” and it go...

The Stooges- The Stooges The Stooges- Fun House A long time ago, I ran across The Stooges ’ Fun House used and knew it would be worth the m...

Oh happy day. The mailman brings a collection of new releases and among them is a collection that I’ve been obsessing about since it was iss...

As if signing to Atlantic Records wasn’t bad enough, rock stalwarts Death Cab For Cutie greenlighted a full-length documentary that remind...

Holy shit, it’s been a while since I’ve posted, so a catch up is in order. What prompted me was the influx of comments this blog received, a...

A story about what I remember about “Pornography.” Myself, another guy named Todd, and a dude who changed his name to Che Guevera (swear to ...

As promised: the gory details. It’s everything, I suppose, a twentieth year class reunion is supposed to be. There are those memories you ch...