Steve Gunn-Time Off

Steve Gunn’s Time Off is like a mixed drink, maybe a scotch and soda, on the front porch after a long day at work. Crisp fall air, alcohol warming the belly, and a stupid smirk on your face as the stoned-out acoustic grooves wash over you. I say stoned-out, but I’m not sure if Steve […]

Whirr’s Around

So I get out of work and go sweat about five years off of my life at the gym. I came home to see a package arrived from Graveface Records. It was my Whirr Around 180 gram vinyl! Nice way to smooth over another fantastic day at work. I opened the package and not only […]

Drift Away

So I’m in a ramblin’ kind of mood this evening. The kids are at their perspective pals abodes, my wife is at work earning some dough, and White Hills’ Stolen Stars Left For No One is spinning at the moment. I gotta say, that was the best $13 I’ve spent in a long time(well, the […]

Saturday’s view from the porch…

Man, it’s a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. Groceries are bought, the house is cleaned, and the lawn mowed. Sitting on the porch with some ice water trying to bring my body temperature down to normal. I mean it’s beautiful and all, but it’s also pretty damn hot in the sun. There’s sweat where there shouldn’t be […]

Horror That’s Not Horrible: James Wan and his Ghosts

It’s not often I get excited about horror films anymore. More often than not they’re pretty much crap. I’ve talked about my lifelong love/hate relationship with the horror film genre. It started as a kid and has followed me up into adulthood. Though now, I’m much more pickier than when I was 12, 13 years […]

My Favorite Albums of 2013: Six Months In

We are officially halfway through the year. A little past that point, actually. Since we spoke last time Easter, Memorial Day, and the Fourth of July have passed. We’re only a month away from the final episodes of Breaking Bad, there was that whole Game Of Thrones thing, and the wonderful James “Tony Soprano” Gandolfini […]

Daniel Wohl-Corps Exquis

Do you ever have those really strange dreams where you wake up from them and you still hear noise ringing in your ear from it? Like, you can’t quite recall what just went down in your subconscious but you know something big did. You can recall colors, places familiar but where you’ve never stepped foot […]

Smith Westerns-Soft Will

When you compare Smith Western’s self-titled debut from 2009 with their brand new long player Soft Will the progression is pretty staggering. Going from a Nuggets-like lo fi overblown sound with songs such as “Dreams”, “Boys Are Fine”, and the Gary Glitter-meets-The Troggs “Girl In Love” to something like Soft Will’s “Idol”, a crisp, clean, […]

Eleanor Friedberger-Personal Record

Eleanor Friedberger’s first words to us on her new long player Personal Record are “I don’t want to bother you”, and I believe her. She seems like the type of gal that would rather keep her business to herself. She seems like more the listening type than the talking type. Yet, when she gets going […]

a long, strange trip…

Only two more days of my great week away from the land of clock punching and spinal implants. I have to say that this was exactly what I needed. My goal was to completely forget about that place I call “work” and just de-compress for a week with my kids. No big trips…no time schedules […]