The Clearing is yet another true crime podcast that investigates some old, cold case murders. But this one is different. Because one of the major participants of the
Another classic album. Another Steve Albini production. It's not even as though I'm doing this on purpose, but I keep gravitating to these soft-loud-soft indie rock
This series is not for the faint of heart. Especially if you're not into long episodes full of reading. Unless you speak French or Serbian, that is. The series also
You know what accent is hard to pull off? Pull off without sounding completely ridiculous? Or like without sounding like a dumb vampire? A Russian accent. And what
I’ve been listening to way too many of these depressing podcasts of late. Dirty John is a little different than some of them, of course, as it’s not about an unsolved
Everyone remembers the Violent Femmes. At least anyone who was a fetus prior to about 1975 or so. They were this weirdo band who felt raw and just a little bit
There is a weird, rambling quality to Bad Time at the El Royale. As if the title and the 140-minute runtime weren't enough of a clue, its feels like in a perfect
I've always wondered how the heck you plan an investigative thing without having any idea how it's going to end up. It's not like I haven't listened to a few of these
Fuck yeah, time travel! Wait, not time travel? Oh man, this is some multiverse shit, isn't it? It is. And just thinking about it now breaks my brain. And unlike the
The Alienist was an insanely popular book. It was The Da Vinci Code before The Da Vinci Code. Back in 1994 there was not a human being on the planet who had not either
Continuing my week of Jawbreaker retro fanboy-ism, here’s Blake Schwarzenbach’s 1998 follow up to the implosion of that band’s swan song, Dear You. It’s an album that
This is one of the more consistently awesome albums ever. And even though Steve Albini doesn't recall actually producing the album, he did a masterful job of translating