Centro-Matic: Navigational January 17, 2015As the album starts, the homemade recording and finger-plucked acoustic guitar made my eyebrows perk up at the...
Centro-Matic: Love You Just the Same January 17, 2015One of my favorite song titles of all times, “Strahan Has Corralled the Freaks,” is the centerpiece of...
Centro-Matic: Candidate Waltz January 17, 2015I went to see these guys in 2009 with a pregnant Ms. Hipster. That worked out not so...
Cee-Lo: Cee-Lo Green… Is the Soul Machine January 17, 2015Cee-Lo is certainly a talented guy. He can rap and sing and whatnot, and certainly possesses one of...
Caviar: Caviar January 17, 2015Saved from the dark recesses of the old forgotten singles and defunct band drawer at the label I...
The Cars: Heartbeat City January 17, 2015This is the first CD we ever bought. I say “we” because it was actually purchased by my...
Candlebox: Candlebox January 17, 2015Look, man. There was a time in the early nineties where I bought a lot of used CDs....
Cages: Hometown January 17, 2015I think this was a cheap rip-off of Nelson or something. I got this as one of those...
Cake: Prolonging the Magic January 17, 2015By the time this, their third album, rolled around, Cake had established a sound that was genuinely theirs....
Cake: Motorcade of Generosity January 17, 2015Cake has always been a hard case to make. Are they a novelty band, or is their fun...
Cake: Fashion Nugget January 17, 2015Cake is kind of the nerd’s alt band. The Jeremy Piven-looking lead singer sports a stupid fisherman’s hat...
Cake: Comfort Eagle January 17, 2015And as if my oracle self was looking down on the world and saying “you sure are a...
Boogie Down Productions: Live Hardcore Worldwide January 12, 2015Thank god KRS-One is a humble man (um, not). But even his giant head can’t make live hip-hop...
Blondie: The Best of Blondie January 12, 2015I can’t help but feel the nostalgia rush over me as soon as this album starts up. I...
blink-182: Enema of the State January 12, 2015Ah, the clown princes of the pop punk scene go head over balls into the teen-dream world of...
Blake Babies: Innocence and Experience January 12, 2015The baby-voiced Juliana Hatfield was my ultimate chick for a short while in my life. I believe I...
Frank Black: Teenager of the Year January 11, 2015Despite the creepy cover, you can tell after the first two tracks that this is going to be...
Frank Black: Frank Black January 11, 2015The first solo effort from former Pixies leadman, Black Francis, finds him trolling through similar neighborhoods and sounds...