90s Tapes (2024, Reissue) On Wednesdays, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a litt...

Granary / BMG (2025) If you were to give an award out for the most consistent rock and roller over the past 30 years or so, one could make a...

Snappy Little Numbers (2025) Zephr is back with Past Lives, a follow up to their debut LP from 2020.  It seems inconceivable to me that was ...

Dope Folks (2011, reissue) On Wednesdays, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a lit...

Rarebreed (2025, Reissue) On Wednesdays, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a litt...

Michigan Independents Network (2012) When I stumbled across Minutes' sophomore release, Roland, I was blown away by their scrappy take o...

90s Tapes (2024, Reissue) On Wednesdays, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a litt...

Hey Suburbia / Radiation (2025) If you know me, you know that I think Bum is one of the greatest bands of all time.  Their album, Wanna Smas...

Merge / Bigfish Sounds (2024) This 7" was one that I wasn't aware of until I just saw it on Superchunk's Disccogs page when I w...

Select (1992) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit abo...

Chocodog (2023) Back in 1994, a friend recommended Ween to me because he knew I was really getting into Beck and some of the other weirder s...

Def Jam (2024, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a litt...

Waterslide (2024) I am still trying to catch up on writing about 2024 albums and I'm trying to focus on the ones that ended up on my yea...

Snappy Little Numbers (2024)  As a casual fan of Curling (let's face it, it's challenging to be more than that in America with the l...

90s Tapes (2024) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit ...

Matador (2024) With all of the Pavement-mania the last few years as they were going on their reunion tour victory lap, it was difficult to a...

Tommy Boy (2024, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a li...

Self Release (2024) Back in 2017, Short Straw Fate released For The Heroes In My Record Rack, and album that I have just loved ever since.  ...

Wild Honey (2024) I bought a Peawees album back in 2008 when It's Alive Records released Walking The Walk.  That was the first time I ha...

90s Tapes (2024) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit ...

Snappy Little Numbers (2024) Five Years after a 12" EP, Bad Year are back.  As I mentioned last time I wrote about them, if you're ...

As 2024 unfolded, that now familiar thought that there is less new music that interests me was in my head a lot.  And it's true, from a ...

Self Released (2024) I wrote about Bad Idea's full length, Sonic Hellride, last year.  This year, they followed it up with a five song, ...

Silver Age (2024) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit...

No Threes (2024) I will never pretend I am the world's foremost authority on the Fastbacks' discography.  I was a latecomer to the p...

Top Drawer (2024, Reissue)  30 years after their first full length was released, Sicko is reissuing all of their albums on vinyl and CD. Th...

Tommy Boy (1991)  Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit...

Merge (2024) I love me a good split 7" and I also do enjoy it when bands have exclusive merch when they tour.  But when that exclusive ...

Top Drawer (2024, Reissue) 30 years after their first full length was released, Sicko is reissuing all of their albums on vinyl and CD.  The...

90s Tapes (2024) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit ...

Forge Again (2024) I've had this Fig Dish LP for a while and for some reason I have struggled trying to figure out what to write about i...

Jive (1991) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit about...

Bypolar / Double Dōs (2024) Four Lights is the new record from Four Lights and they've done that thing where the self titled record isn...

Top Drawer (2024, Reissue) 30 years after their first full length was released, Sicko is reissuing all of their albums on vinyl and CD. The...