Rock and Roll Book Club
Back in 2014 Pat Buzzard, one of my oldest friends, told me about a new podcast he and some buddies were working on. For about a year he and Mark Dantzer, Chuck Johnson, and Ryan Smith had been reading rock bios and getting together for a monthly "book club" night....
My Favorite Rock Album of 2018
The Smashing Pumpkins latest album, Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (phew), quickly became my favorite rock album of 2018. For a longtime fan of any band, the announcement of a new album 30 years after the band's formation comes with as...
My Favorite Pop Album of 2018
I can’t remember the first time I heard Still Corners, but I’m guessing it was long before I knew who they were. I believe it was through a Pandora channel for a similar band, maybe Beach House or Daughter, but the track the first struck me was “The Trip” from their...
My Favorite Instrumental Album of 2018
I have friends (you know who you are) that pay a lot of attention to new music that comes out every month, week, or even day. For a time I felt like I was a slacker for not being able to keep up. I would find myself defaulting back to records that I’ve loved for...
Pearl Season
For as long as I can remember there has been a single album that acts as my annual soundtrack to the three month stretch from mid-August through mid-November. It comes on as the summer heat slowly dissipates during the late summer evenings of the northeastern United...
Everything Was in Its Right Place
I traveled back to the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia for the second of two arena shows in less than five days. This time it was for Radiohead's 2018 summer tour. Since OK Computer (1997) I've been a moderate fan, loosely following the band over the next decade....