Johnny Cash – Unearthed: Disc 2: Trouble In Mind

As promised, we’re going to go into the second disc’s worth of “outtakes and alternative versions” from Johnny Cash’s “American Recordings” era, called Unearthed:
When speaking on Cash’s second American album, Unchained, I remarked that Johnny Cash with a band, with his voice still as strong as ever, was a uniquely powerful sound for the aging [...]

King Crimson – Red

Today’s been a hectic day for me, as I am in the process of moving back to Austin after a relatively unsuccessful “break” here in my hometown. It’ll be nice to get back to business, but the whole packing and loading trucks thing has caused undue delay in today’s album writing. I will say, at [...]

The Beatles – The Beatles

Well since we’re nearing the end of the year and all these silly album writeups, it’s about time we finished the latter half of The Beatles’ discography with one of their most famous albums, which is self-titled but for reasons that should be fairly understandable, is also called “The White Album”:
Ok that’s really confusing since [...]

David Bowie – Aladdin Sane

I really wanted to represent David Bowie somewhere on this weblog at some point, because the guy is just so damn cool. Unfortunately, I’m a bit of a newcomer to his sound, and I don’t actually have (though I have heard) his Ziggy Stardust album. I do, however, have his so-called “sequel” album to that, [...]

Weird Al Yankovic – The Food Album

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! On this fine day, Americans from all over the world gather together to celebrate the magic of food. Though we traditionally like to carve up turkey and make stuffing (finally, a food named after the verb that goes along with it), and craaaaaanberry sauce, thanks to The Food Network and the American [...]

Puscifer – V Is For Vagina

The other day, an unexpected message came in over the wire. I was invited by a friend to attend a Puscifer show in Dallas, as Neil Hamburger was opening and this friend knew I’d want to see Neil again. So, whereas many of my friends would have loved to go to this event, I got [...]

Bloc Party – Silent Alarm

Ok, so I’ve been putting off this album for way too long, it’s time I just man up and write about Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm album:
Here’s the thing about Bloc Party: I’m conflicted. On the one hand, this band was suggested to me by someone I’m quite fond of, based on our similar tastes otherwise [...]

Johnny Cash – Unearthed: Disc 1: Who’s Gonna Cry?

We last left Johnny Cash on 2 notes, in one, we have the aging legend, at the end of his life, putting out an amazing album that drew from so many sources that one hesitates to even call it “Country”, and in another, we have Cash, just over the age of 40, recording an album [...]

Albert Collins – Cold Snap

It’s been a very bluesy winter so far, I’ve noticed, but that doesn’t matter. Today I am going to talk about the last of the Albert Collins albums I have thus far heard:
I notice sometimes, while listening to the Blues, just how much it parallels comedy. I mean, some of it is comedy, like a [...]

Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary

This writeup is more or less dedicated to my brother, who is an enthusiastic fan of this band, and who had a birthday today. He also loaned me this album so I could listen to it, which I was planning on doing anyway, so there’s also that.
Ah, Sunny Day Real Estate, at last we meet. [...]