Arquivo Perdido (2025, Bootleg) In 1994 nothing had the impact in my life as discovering Back for the first time.  Truly one of those life-c...

Get On Down / PWL America (2019, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and ro...

DGC (2025, Reissue) Ever since Record Store Day became a thing, and particularly since it became the dumping ground for major label reissues...

90s Tapes (2024) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little bit ...

2025 was definitely a year.  I checked.  It had the right amount of days, but it didn't always feel like it had the right amount of reco...

Swami (2025) Back in 2022, Plosivs released their debut album and it is still the best record I've heard since then.  To say that I have...

  Downtown Music / Fat Beats (2025, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock an...

Kill Rock Stars (1994) Recently, my buddy Alan and I were talking about the albums that were most influential to us. In fact we did a whole ...

Brassneck (2025) Leave it to Scott at Brassneck to find a way to break through the barrier to new music that has been forming around me over...

90s Tapes (2025, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a li...

Z2 (2025) If you know me even casually, you likely know that The Blues Brothers are one of the most important things in my life.  The movie ...

Swami (2025, Reissue) Long one of the records at the tippy top of my 'never released on vinyl' want list has been the second Sultans...

Dirtnap / Wild Honey (2025) It's been two years since we had a Radioactivity album from one of my favorite songwriters, Jeff Burke.  I i...

Smoke On (2020, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a lit...

Snappy Little Numbers (2025) An album being on Snappy Little Numbers is usually all that it takes to stir my interest.  It's a label wit...

Pinata (2025) Maybe you remember 2016?  Much of it is a blur to me in that way that it seems like it was yesterday and there isn't much ...

90s Tapes (2023, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a li...

Forge Again (2025, Reissue) This is one of those records that I was worried would never come out on vinyl.  Despite how much I love Fig Dish...

  Merge (2025) I will readily admit that I was very disappointed in Superchunk's last album, Wild Loneliness.  It was slow and kind of b...

Trumindz (2025, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a lit...

Dead Broke /  Serial Bowl / Waterslide / Break The Silence (2025) I have a very hard time coming to grips with the fact that the first Diaz ...

Rambling Records (2023) While this isn't the last kaiju soundtrack I have on deck, this is the last Godzilla one.  Shin Godzilla hasn...

  Before I move on to another Godzilla Soundtrack write up tomorrow, I just want to remind the world that chronologically, Godzilla: Final W...

90s Tapes (2025, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a li...

Beach Impediment (2025) There was a time when I was beyond obsessed with everything that Gentleman Jesse put out.  That sweet period of time...

  Death Waltz / Mondo Tokyo SOS is a direct follow-up to 2002's Godzilla x Mechagodzilla, making these two movies the only ones in the m...

Get On Down / Jive (2024, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to w...

Little Rocket (2025) There are few bands in this world that mean more to me than Leatherface does.  I've been a fan and have been collec...

Death Waltz / Mondo (2023) Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and its sequel are definitely the high point in the Millennium Godzilla series for...

Stones Throw (2024) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a little b...

Kraid (2000) The Minibosses are (were?) a band that was primarily active in the early 2000s, but still were releasing records as recently as...

Death Waltz / Mondo (2023) Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack is an excellent Godzilla movie.  There is a lot...

90s Tapes (2022, Reissue) Every Wednesday, in honor of Ed Lover Dance Day from Yo! MTV Raps, I take a break from rock and roll to write a li...