Category: Music

Love-love this band. The new record, “Smote Reverser”, has some serious riffs and this video for “Enrique El Cobrador” is faaaaaar out.

There is a little more grey hair than there used to be but they still kick. That music they’re playing is called “rock and roll”.

Thee Oh Sees are an L.A.-based band led by vocalist and guitarist John Dwyer. I’d heard that the live show was amazing and my high expectations were exceeded. It was crazy. The double drum kits at the front of the stage made a great racket and whipped the sold-out crowd into a frenzy. The Broadberry …

I’m on the record as anti-Pink Floyd. I find the songs that make heavy rotation on the radio to be insufferable and interminable. People I trust keep insisting that there is a lot of good music in that catalog and that I’m an ass for not checking it out. I’ve done some work on it …

Holy mackerel this is great. Pre-hair-and-makeup Robert Smith is a damn handsome man and the band just *kills* this. I have to agree with the comments there at the bass line is the standout winner. And, in a broader sense, I think people underrate The Cure as a band name. It’s gotta be top 50 …

Here’s another occasional “bucket of songs that caught Mike’s fancy” playlist. This was a fun 6 months of listening. Putting it together I got to relive my little trip from ambient music and fuzzed out drone to hip hop and 20th century country music. There can be some jarring transitions from song to song but …

I’ve talked before about my classic rock thing and I’ve been revisiting that playlist often. What still blows my mind is that these were all young people making the music because I had only ever really seen them as old people. This video of The Marshall Tucker Band is great and I still love this …

Back in June, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever released a gem of a jangle-pop record, “Hope Downs”. For reference, I’d say it’s got some early Tame Impala or maybe some early Soft Pack (if you turn your head just right). The Clean comparisons are obvious and very real, but they’re not just copping the style of …

Loretta Lynn (still alive, btw) is an American Treasure.

This is a playlist I put together last year based on this NME Top 500 Songs of All Time list from 2014. It’s most of the Top 100. There are a couple that aren’t on Spotify. They’re all hits (well, except the Blur songs, obvs.), and at over 7 hours long, it’s a nice way …