Chasing the Essential

"You can take the kid from Connecticut, but you can't take the cut from the kid." - Matt Pond PA

The Leftovers Lose Your Head

The Buzzcocks Something's Gone Wrong Again

Shazam, The Periscope

Reno Bo Here Right  Now

Sorrows Out Of My Head

20/20 The End Of The Summer

Dropkick Snowflakes

Christopher Peifer Bonjour! Hello!

Wire Train I Forget It All (When I See You)

otter petter Turn Out the Lights

Danny McDonald Northern Gaze (2018)

The Regrettes Barely On My Mind

Matt Pond PA Connecticut

Too Much Joy Connecticut

Superchunk Connecticut

Rayland Baxter Casanova

Fireking A Sentimental Education

The Mighty Lemon Drops Out of Hand

Low Stars Just Around The Corner

Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill A Thousand Times

"I've waited hours for this. I've made myself so sick. I wish I'd stayed asleep today" - The Cure

The Replacements Hold My Life

The Del Fuegos Sound Of Our Town

10,000 Maniacs Can't Ignore The Train

The Waterboys The Whole Of The Moon

The Golden Palominos Omaha

The Cure Close To Me

'Til Tuesday Love In A Vacuum

Tears For Fears Mothers Talk

Hoodoo Gurus Bittersweet

R.E.M. Kohoutek

The Alarm Father To Son

Simple Minds Sanctify Yourself

Divinyls Pleasure & Pain

The Cult She Sells Sanctuary

The Pogues Dirty Old Town

The Smiths I Want The One I Can't Have

The Dukes Of Stratosphear Vanishing Girl

Guadalcanal Diary Why Do the Heathen Rage?

Beat Farmers Bigger Stones

Agitpop On the Hudson

Talking Heads Road To Nowhere

"I see the monkeys riding on their bikes, racing through the impossible night" - Patti Smith

Patti Smith Glitter In Their Eyes

Spoon Rent I Pay

U2 Picture Of You (X+W)

The Damnwells Without a Heart

Steven Wright-Mark The Times They Are A-Changin'

otter petter Tiny Words

Colman Gota Crack The Code

The Mayflies USA Calling The Bad Ones Home

Figures On a Beach No Stars

20/20 Laurel Canyon

Bottlecap Mountain Freedom! '24

Maritime Satellite Love

Cage The Elephant Cigarette Daydreams

Spygenius Eucalyptus & Cigarettes

The Smithereens Cigarette

New York Dolls Dancing On the Lip of a Volcano

Captain Storm If I Could 

The Star Spangles Which One Of The Two Of Us Is Gonna Burn This House Down?

Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians She Doesn't Exist

Fountains Of Wayne These Days

Part two of my favorite stuff from 2024!

Chuck Prophet Wake The Dead

Erik Voeks The Symmetry

Real Estate Water Underground

The Damnwells Shepherd of 12th Avenue

Broken Baby The Perfect Song

Ed Ryan MAKE IT HAPPEN

Greg Williams The Things That Make Me Happy

Green Day One Eyed Bastard [Explicit]

Jesse Malin & Low Cut Connie When You're Young

Elephant Stone Lost In A Dream

Mark Ward Zip It Up

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets Raincoat in the River

The Armoires Ridley & Me After the Apocalypse

The Avett Brothers Love Of A Girl

The Linda Lindas Lose Yourself

The Maureens Warning Sign

The Vaccines Lunar Eclipse

Vegas With Randolph A Pretty Good Run

X The Way It Is

Mansfield The Nature of a Troubled Mind

Here is the first batch of my favorites from 2024!

otter petter Cobwebs

The Vapors Eyes On the Prize

Dennis Shocket and Cliff Hillis The Girls Are Back In Town

The Tisburys The Anniversaries

Jim Trainor Better Than You Do

John Larson And The Silver Fields Guilty By Association

Librarians With Hickeys Everything Will Be All Rightis the first batch to

Liquid Mike Drinking and Driving

Modern English Long In The Tooth

Nada Surf In Front of Me Now

Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Eyelids

Pernice Brothers Hey, Guitar

pete donnelly Exploding Lightbulb

Redd Kross Candy Coloured Catastrophe

Tamar Berk Good Impression

The Chesterfield Kings Fly The Astral Plane

The Jack Rubies Corrupted (FCC Warning)

Valley Lodge Hanging Around

The Call A Beautiful Lie

Rick Kingo feat Cherry Fez In Our Solitude

"Have yourself a Merry little Christmas now" - Hugh Martin

Reno Bo Christmas Time Is Coming

Ron Sexsmith Maybe This Christmas

The Dandy Warhols Little Drummer Boy

Goo Goo Dolls Let It Snow

The Raveonettes The Christmas Song

Rufus Wainwright Spotlight On Christmas

The Bradburys I Love It When It Snows!

Paul Simon Getting Ready for Christmas Day

Sun Kings Santa’s Calling

Matt Nathanson I Believe in Father Christmas

The Killers Boots

Fountains Of Wayne Valley Winter Song

Lisa Mychols Joy Is In The Giving

The Weepies All That I Want

Thrift Store Halo I Still Love Christmas

Marcy Playground Keegan's Christmas

The Hangabouts Colors of Christmas

October Elsewhere Christmas Every Day

Old 97's Gotta Love Being a Kid (Merry Christmas)

David Woodard Peace Love Merry Xmas

Jesse Malin Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Pretenders Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

In memory of Andy Blakemore

Erik Voeks Let Go Now

Low Cut Connie Are You Gonna Run?

otter petter Winnebago

Searching for Sylvia The Realist

Father John Misty She Cleans Up

Rob Moss and Skin-Tight Skin Slow Down

Andy Bopp Simplified

Even As We Speak Forgiving

Trio Da Da Da (I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha)

Soul Asylum The Only Thing I'm Missing

The Galileo 7 Not Gonna Miss You

Searching For Sylvia SEMA (Sunday Evening Misery Attack)

Phil Angotti False Alarm

The Jellybricks We’ll Be Together

Combat Road Trip

Ramones Chop Suey [Alternate Version]

pete donnelly Compass

Rob Moss and Skin-Tight Skin/SHAKE SOME I Got Lots Of Problems

Marcy Playground Gone Crazy

Searching For Sylvia Play That Song (On The Radio)

20 of my favorite Essential Digs over the years!

The B-52's Nip It In The Bud

The Cure Grinding Halt

Hoodoo Gurus Like Wow-Wipeout

Kelly Osbourne Come Dig Me Out

Peter Schilling Major Tom (Coming Home) [Director's Cut]

The Producers I Love Lucy

Pursuit of Happiness I'm an Adult Now

Ruth Ruth Uninvited

Sniff 'n' the Tears Driver's Seat

Stan Ridgway Drive, She Said

Syd Straw Future 40's (String of Pearls)

The Rings Uh-Oh (Here I Go Again)

Wire Train Chamber of Hellos

Bangs Getting Out Of Hand

Blur There's No Other Way

The Fixx Stand Or Fall

Woodentops Get it On

Live Operation Spirit (The Tyranny Of Tradition)

Culture Club Church Of The Poison Mind

The Dentists Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)

"Scum-bags and superstars, tell me your names ... I'll make a bet, you're both the same" - Talking Heads

Icecream Hands Picture Disc From The Benelux

Erik Voeks My Dentist

Billy Bragg The Boy Done Good

The Glad Machine I Wanna Drive (2024 Charity Single)

Steven Wright-Mark Falling Up

Redd Kross The Shaman's Disappearing Robe

The Figgs There are Never Two Alike

Nick Piunti Blame in Vain

Luscious Jackson Naked Eye

Greg Williams The Things That Make Me Happy

David Woodard We're Not Coming Back

Joe Jackson Pretty Girls

Chuck Prophet, ¿Qiensave? First Came the Thunder

Too Much Joy Unbeautiful

Talking Heads Lifetime Piling Up

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets Raincoat in the River

THE TOMS BLACK & WHITE

Material Issue If Ever You Should Fall

The Decemberists Born To The Morning

XTC My Bird Performs

"Well, here's a song I wrote when I was about a hundred and forty-four" - The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Pete Donnelly Exploding Lightbulb

Erik Voeks The Symmetry

sparkle*jets u.k. Right Idea

Old 97's Falling Down

20/20 Back to California

Deer Tick Grey Matter

Tommy Keene Tuesday Morning

The Mighty Lemon Drops My Biggest Thrill

Joe Strummer & The Latino Rockabilly War Trash City

Hayley and the Crushers Alleyways

The Chesterfield Kings If I Had To Leave

The Gold Needles I Don't Know About That

Jack Green Too Many Fools

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Still Aging

Any Trouble Another Heartache

Fountains Of Wayne Richie And Ruben

Jesse Malin & Spoon The Way We Used to Roll

KURT BAKER Inner Demons

Ed Ryan FOLLOW YOU DOWN

Aimee Mann & Michael Penn Two of Us