we close out the year in grand fashion, leading with the only sensible voices this year, and ending with some minimalist post-punk.  as the gods would have it.  in-between is a melange of inspiration, and an assurance that it’s all gonna be ok if we just sink our nails into the dashboard, close our eyes […]

2 solid hours to give you the last new goods and to clear out the closet a bit, and accommodate all the good stuff that got bumped last few months.  if Stephin Merritt can write 50 songs to chronicle his life in one album, I can do this. Car Seat Headrest — Beach Life-in-Death  /  Wavves — Christmas Time […]

no, really. Bob’s Burgers cast — I Don’t Need Music  /  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Open Water  /  King Krule — Dum Surfer  /  The Buttertones — Two-Headed Shark  /  Priests — JJ  /  The The — We Can’t Stop What’s Coming  /  OCS — Memory of a Cut Off Head  /  POW! — Back on the Grid  /  Male Gaze — Keep Yr Kools  /  Prettiest […]

I had my mind blown at the METZ show, so much of the hour was woefully incoherent.  let’s let the music do the talkin’, shall we??!!  new stuff from Total Control, Moaning, Pope and Lars Finberg, something from GBV’s album-of-the-month club, and hey The Liminanas got some French guy to remix their Anton Newcombe track.  […]

it’s not my fault.  Jason left his file unsaved on the drive, and I did a kindness just by storing it, but then I didn’t get a waveform, and I had to call Steph (who was kind enough today to extend her pad for the station’s holiday party, and worked her ass off at the […]

Chrissie Hynde said, “nobody’s perfect / not even a perfect stranger.” I like Chrissie Hynde.  this week, I decide to prove her point by cocking up the music upload process, and inadvertently leaving a stray song from a show several months ago, in the middle of the program.  and crediting it to a different band.  […]

one time at the old house, I grew so frustrated trying to install a doorknob on the hall closet, that I took the screwdriver and tore a sizable hole out of the door itself.  I’d be lying if I said it didn’t feel good.  the moral of the story is supposed to be “sometimes you […]

what a time, what a time…  in the waning days of the year, we marvel at our state of affairs w/ a rejuvenated Superchunk, a downhearted Escape-ism and a rabble-rousing L.A. Salami (while the Gizzard continue to simply see 2017 as one long street date).  Buddyhead help us remember when our biggest problem was prank-calling […]

we salute the Bay State right from the git-go, find sleepy stuff from Curls and ass-on-fire stuff from the Gotobeds, set the wayback machine for the early ‘80s, and — yes — find time for a couple quick jabs from Castle Face … just to get yer head straight.  Open Water has you on its […]

will the show ever be live again? until we find out, bask in the warm light of Parquet Courts’ Italian tourism, Baxter Dury’s pub snarl, Grooms’ Brooklyn cold wave, Gord Downie’s poetic half-life, and more. I ate a boatload of candy and confused the neighbors with my costume; what did YOU do? Wavves & Culture […]