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  • Autogramm – Music That Humans Can Play LP

    Autogramm – Music That Humans Can Play LP

    Autogramm Music That Humans Can Play LP (Stomp/WEA) That Autogramm has so meticulously presented themselves as being perched on New Wave’s pinnacle of power and influence now – about forty years after that form peaked – cannot possibly have been by accident. From front to back and top to bottom, Music That Humans Can Play…

  • The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (20th Anniversary 5LP Super Deluxe Edition Box Set)

    The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (20th Anniversary 5LP Super Deluxe Edition Box Set)

    The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (20th Anniversary 5LP Super Deluxe Edition Box Set) (Warner Records) While The Flaming Lips had already established themselves in the pop and rock communities by the time Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was released in 2002, the album holds the distinction of being the one that really…

  • The Flaming Lips – The Hypnotist EP

    The Flaming Lips – The Hypnotist EP

    The Flaming Lips The Hypnotist 12” EP (Warner Records) 2023 marks the twentieth anniversary of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and, to celebrate, Warner Brothers has embarked on an impressive campaign to re-examine the album (stay tuned for more on that later) but, without question, one of the most unusual parts of that endeavor is…

  • Jane’s Addiction – “Stop!”/”Three Days” and “Been Caught Stealing” 12” singles

    Jane’s Addiction – “Stop!”/”Three Days” and “Been Caught Stealing” 12” singles

    Now thirty years and several significant cultural movements later, it’s difficult to get a sense of how much excitement and promise there was surrounding Jane’s Addiction at the height of the band’s fame. Simply said, the band represented a way to transition from the staid, well-established values and forms evident in classic rock to the…

  • Neil Young – Young Shakespeare LP

    Neil Young – Young Shakespeare LP

    Neil Young Young Shakespeare LP (Reprise Records/Warner Brothers) One of the more interesting things that has happened since the CoVid pandemic basically put the entire North American live music schedule up on blocks for a while has been the outflow of live releases which have appeared – a cultural moment at which Neil Young has…

  • Neil Young – Way Down In The Rust Bucket (4LP)

    Neil Young – Way Down In The Rust Bucket (4LP)

    In the fifty-two years which have made up his career to date, Neil Young has been a lot of things – an activist, a fortune teller, an elder statesman, a folkie, a rock star, a filmmaker and other titles too – but he has never seemed to be lighthearted. The singer has been interested in…

  • Neil Young – Way Down In The Rust Bucket [Deluxe box set]

    Neil Young – Way Down In The Rust Bucket [Deluxe box set]

    It’s hard to express how satisfying the experience of witnessing a “whole show” can be, in reference to said show being on a recorded medium. Really, how many pieces are necessary? Well, in the case of the Deluxe Edition 4LP/2CD/1DVD box set which chronicles the show that Neil Young performed with Crazy Horse in Santa…

  • Deftones – Koi No Yokan

    KNY may be Deftones most melodic album to date. However, they maintain enough crunch so as not to sound like they’ve gone soft.

  • Metallica/Lamb Of God/Volbeat @ Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON, Oct 27, 2009

    Metallica may not be for everyone. You may love them or you may hate them. Some that attended the concert may have been there to accompany a family member or friend and others may have gone in large groups. Whatever the case may be, it was a damn good show. No matter what age, ethnicity…