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The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 4: 10-06
10. Jacuzzi Boys - Glazin'(Hardly Art)I originally had this record placed a few slots lower, but after I realized how much I walk around singing Glazin's best hooks to myself like I quoted Simpsons references as a teenager, its position in the top te...
Posted: 1/3/2012 10:03 PM
The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 3: 15-11
15. The People's Temple - Sons Of Stone(HoZac)When I first picked up Sons Of Stone, it didn't really register. After the first couple of plays, this Michigan band of brothers just seemed like regular ol' garage rockers, even if they did get the prima...
Posted: 12/30/2011 3:43 PM
The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 2: 20-16
20. Pure X - Pleasure(Acephale)Like a lot of people now afraid to admit it, I was entranced by My Morning Jacket's brand of reverb-drenched hillbilly rock back in the early 2000s. Back then, I had a lot of free time on my hands and liked to drive aro...
Posted: 12/22/2011 9:47 PM
The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 1: 25-21
25. Widowspeak(Captured Tracks)Sure, Widowspeak vocalist Molly Hamilton is a dead ringer for Hope Sandoval, but the band's new spin on dark, mid-80s post-punk cowboy rock is a lot different from Mazzy Star's elegant, noisy torch ballads. On tracks li...
Posted: 12/14/2011 10:54 PM
Random Old Records Podcast #38
2011 is almost over, and holy shit, where did the time go?! The past twelve months were filled with all kinds of good things for me on the life front, and much like last year, there was a HUGE amount of crucial rock n' roll records released and a bun...
Posted: 12/14/2011 11:30 AM
Wax Idols - No Future
(HoZac, 2011)Back in the spring, Wax Idols released their debut single "All Too Human/William Says," and I musta listened to that damn thing a hundred times. The A side was one of the best pure pop songs I've heard in a good long time, with its garga...
Posted: 11/29/2011 9:54 PM
RIP Southgate House...
After a dreadful, rainy day, the last thing you want is to come home to is a foul dose of seriously bad news. Today, word spread through the internet with haste, and just a little bit ago, the news was official. Newport, Kentucky's legendary venue, t...
Posted: 11/28/2011 10:58 PM
Ty Segall - Spiders 7"
(Drag City, 2011)If anything, I guess this single proves that Ty Segall is gonna one tough nut to crack as a musician. When I slipped it out of the sleeve and played the A side on 45 (no handy dandy indications on the label as to the correct speed), ...
Posted: 11/17/2011 2:00 PM
Random Old Records Podcast #37
Well shit, what happened to this month's episode of Random Old Records?! It's been up on iTunes and Mevio and Official.fm and such since last week, but since then, I've been on VACATION! Yeah, it's been a year now since I got a full-time grown-up job...
Posted: 11/15/2011 8:52 PM
The Penetrators - Gotta Have Her 7"
(Windian, 2011)Although I own several thousand albums, singles, EPs, novels, articles, biographies, movies, TV shows, cartoons, and such in every format of physical media imaginable, I ain't never considered myself much of a collector. The message is
Posted: 10/31/2011 10:01 PM
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