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Next Week In Music | September 14-20 • The Slightly Shorter List: 50 Titles You Want to Hear (Part 2)
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (1510+ words) Tinnitist Can you have too much of a good thing? We will find out next week, when an avalanche of 600-plus new titles arrives to bury us all. I whittled the massive list down to 50 essentials â and before you…...
Next Week In Music | September 14-20 • 23 New Books (Part 1)
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (1490+ words) Tinnitist Funâs over, kids: No more lazily flipping through beach reads, graphic novels and picture-packed coffee-table tomes. Itâs time to get serious and tackle the massive pile of fall music books on the way. Dig in now or…...
Next Week In Music | September 14-20 • 23 New Books (Part 2)
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (99+ words) Tinnitist Another Button To Press! Yay! Apparently I need one of these consent things now. But it's only a formality. Don't sweat it. Nothing is going to happen. Just click it. Or don't. Your call. No cookies to display. Functional…...
Classic Album Review: The Harlots | Connoisseur Of Ruin
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (233+ words) Tinnitist This came out in 2006 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing): I don’t know what they know about ruin. But I do know that Winnipeg’s Harlots…...
Classic Album Review: John Hiatt | The Tiki Bar is Open
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (156+ words) Tinnitist Another Button To Press! Yay! Apparently I need one of these consent things now. But it's only a formality. Don't sweat it. Nothing is going to happen. Just click it. Or don't. Your call. No cookies to display. Functional…...
Steve Schmolaris’s EP Review: Create Them | EP1
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (125+ words) When you're around the dead, is one ever truly alone? And there’s never anyone around. Usually. Typically. Nearly always you’re alone. Of course, when you’re around the dead, is one ever truly alone? Their memories seep out of the ground…...
Classic Album Review: Various Artists | Rock Star
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (68+ words) Tinnitist This came out in 2001 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing): There are as many kinds of rock stars as there are rock styles — and this…...
Next Week In Music | September 7-13 • 17 New Books (Part 1)
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1041+ words) Tinnitist Do I ever read / listen to books that arenât about music? Well, sure. For instance: I just finished the audiobook of Danny McBrideâs entertaining new short-story collection Thrilling Tales Of Modern Men, read by him and most…...
The Grindhouse | Bat Leather, HighWay, Baby On A Rampage & More New Loudness
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1287+ words) Tinnitist The bad news: September has arrived. The good news: So has a long weekend. The better news: You’ve got some seriously weighty tracks to anchor your three-day soundtrack. Raise your first and yell: Bat Leather | Technical Aggression THE EDITED…...
Classic Album Review: Bob Dylan | Modern Times
1+ week, 6+ day ago (570+ words) Tinnitist This came out in 2006 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing): “You think I’m over the hill? You think I’m past my prime? Let me see…...