Built mostly on lo-fi loops and bordering on too-precious thanks to the vocals and some of the lyrics, the High Places (

I’m a soul music dork and Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves are another excellent example of young people making music that sounds 50 years old. I can only imagine that these guys are exponentially better in person, and they’re pretty damn good on disc. ‘I’m Gonna Getcha Back‘ will show you what I [...]

I’m a sucker for a well-built mashup and a Tron-inspired album cover. There’s something about new sounds out of known songs that I can’t get enough of. There isn’t much to the Audiobytes for Autobots site but the link to his latest mix 2.0″ is enough. I have probably listened to this whole thing 100 [...]

“Denny’s Drums” was a cool song I found on an old Beach Boys record my dad has so I was pretty pumped when I read that Dennis Wilson’s only solo album was getting the super-deluxe cd re-issue treatment. One look at that cover told me that I would be among friends (what a beard! -ed.) [...]

You know there is more to Otis Redding than that Dock he sat on, right? He was a blistering soul singer who wrote some indisputable, all-time, cream-of-the-crop, pop classics. Soul music is a hobby of mine and I try (“try”? maybe “beat people over the head with” is a better way of saying that?-ed.) to [...]