Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
Reviews of albums, shows, songs and the like.
It’s been a long time coming(nearly a year by my count) since we’ve done a favorite album of the year list. Upon looking back on the year I’m pretty astounded by how many great records came out. When I first started thinking about it, I was struggling to remember more than a handful of albums. […]
Read More Favorite Albums of 2014In honor of Kraftwerk’s snubbing by those Rock and Roll Hall of Lamers, I thought I’d say a few words about my favorite album by some of my favorite Krautrockers, Computer World. I love it. It’s great. Okay, I’ll say a few more words. The first record I ever bought of Kraftwerk’s was Trans Europe […]
Read More “It’s More Fun To Compute”: Kraftwerk’s Computer OdysseyYou know, there are so many other things to be upset about rather than the new inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Taliban slaughtering nearly 140 students in Pakistan; the militarization of our local police forces in the US and subsequent pointless murders committed by these thugs in blue; the ever […]
Read More Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2015 Inductees : A Short RantI’ve been listening to Herbie Hancock for nearly ten years now. I started out with his seminal funk/fusion masterpiece Headhunters. I’d just gotten out of an 8 hour Hazmat training session in South Bend and my mind was fried. I stopped at a Borders book store before heading home to grab a coffee and just […]
Read More Herbie Hancock and the Warner YearsI know, I know. This should be my favorite albums of 2014, not albums I’m looking forward to in 2015. As much as I love the favorite lists, and as satisfying as it is once I’m done with making my own and sharing it with the world, I have to admit it’s quite a daunting […]
Read More Music For The New Year: Albums To Look Forward To In 2015Can you believe we’re almost through with 2014? It’s nearly gone, my friends. And like all of you know, that means music, movie, book, etc obsessives like myself will be pouring over their favorite things of 2014 and compiling massive lists for the masses to completely ignore because they will already be bombarded with plenty […]
Read More My Favorites…2014…Coming SoonWay back in March of this year, amongst one of the coldest and harshest Midwestern winters in recent memory I happened across this guy named Jakob Skott. He’s the co-founder and drummer of the Danish psych band Causa Sui. Not only that, but he’s the co-founder of El Paraiso Records, the record company that puts […]
Read More Jakob Skott :: Taurus RisingThere are more Christmas albums floating around out there than you can shake a candy cane-colored stick at, so why be enthralled with yet one more? Well, Imagene Peise and her Atlas Eets Christmas definitely stands out among the sea of green and red and mistletoe-kissed rehashes. With its Middle-Eastern lean and slightly dusty-sounding ambiance […]
Read More Imagene Peise :: Atlas Eets ChristmasIt’s hard to describe the overwhelming joy that emanates from the speakers as opening track “New Topia” -off of This Will Destroy You’s newest album Another Language– plays. It’s both extraterrestrial and of this earth at the same time. Pure light extracted from the beginning of existence. This Will Destroy You have toiled in this […]
Read More This Will Destroy You :: Another LanguageYou know the old saying, “If you look long enough, you’re bound to find what you’re looking for”? Well that’s not really an old saying. In fact I just made it up right here. It’s that sayings debut. Take it. Let it loose out into the world and tell everyone you saw it here first. […]
Read More Oneohtrix Point Never : Songs Darkly Lit