Just like a lot of us, 2021 was a down year for me. Health issues, hand surgery that kept me from taking advantage of spring gardening, a mountain bike crash later in the summer that sidelined me for 6 weeks, and the continuing shit-show of covid was plenty enough to make the last 12 months …
Tag: rock
2018: My Year of Musical Self-Care
"Tell them they can take that bullshit elsewhere, Self care, I'm treating me right." —Mac Miller As I write this on Christmas Eve, the Dow Jones just closed over 600 points down, hundreds of thousands of government workers are out of a job and going without pay, and the folks in California who lost everything …
The Genre Bending of Rare Noise Records
The handful releases from Rare Noise records I've received in the last couple years has presented a problem for organizing my music collection: as I sort albums into loosely defined genres I can't figure out where in the hell to put them. Most of Rare Noise's output that I've heard contains a mix of so …
CD Review: The Flaming Lips’ The Terror
For me the Flaming Lips are hit or miss: I love Transmissions from the Satellite Heart; my enjoyment of The Soft Bulletin didn't last past the first couple listens; over ten years on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is still one of my favorite pop albums; since then I haven't really been able to get …
Outside-Inside-Out 