Assembly Line (2018, Reissue) When the news came out several months ago that Starmarket was getting back together to play some shows f...

Motorcycle Potluck (2018) The moment that the fist song on this tape, "I'm Not Gonna Lie, It's Been A Weird Year," ...

Brassneck / Boss Tuneage / Little Rocket / SBAM / Waterslide (2018) I took way too long to buy this record.  I knew it was going to be...

Anti-New Waves (2002) This Raisemind 7" is another record that I grabbed while I was record shopping in Tokyo a couple of years ...

Atlantic (2017) Over the next few months, I will be writing about each of the individual albums in the Otis Redding Definitive Studio ...

Second Royal (2015) I picked up this split 7" after really enjoying the two Not Wonk LPs that I had.  While I wasn't familiar...

Gravy Lane (2018. Reissue) After the bang-up job Gravy Lane did on the Stuntman LP they rereleased a little while back, I was extremel...

Snappy Little Numbers (2018) I will be totally honest.  Friends Of Cesar Romero confuse the shit out of me.  I have a couple of 7...

Omnivore (2018, Reissue) Dear 23 is the first of three Posies reissues that were sold via Pledge Music.  While it seems that you can s...

Coconut's House (1996) This four band compilation 7" is another record that I picked up record shopping in Tokyo two years ag...

Swoon (2018) I had mentioned how much I enjoyed this Unlikely Friends album when I posted my year end list of my favorite records of 20...

Motorcycle Potluck (2018) I received a package of cassettes from Motorcycle Potluck.  I'm certainly on record as not being a big f...

Atlantic (2017) Over the next few months, I will be writing about each of the individual albums in the Otis Redding Definitive Studio ...

Waterslide (2015) If it's not obvious from the release date above, I took way too long to write about this album.  Though I haven...

Numero (2017) I've had this Crimpshrine box set sitting around for ages, but just never got around to taking pictures of it or wri...

Swept (1997) Sprocket Wheel is one of the first Snuffy Smile bands I ever heard of when I started buying records from Japan.  I think ...

2018 was an interesting year to say the least.  From the highest of highs when my wife and I purchased our first house (with a dedicated...

New West (2018) If you know me well, you probably know how much I love Christmas music.  While it seems that Christmas music can be a ...

Top Drawer (2019) This 7" is really great.  I have to be honest that when I heard that Lisa Marr (from Cub) was getting together ...

Dirtnap (2018) One of the bands I miss more than any other is The Marked Men.  Yes, the Radioactivity records are great and give me my...

Merge (2018) I subscribed to the Merge Born Under A Good Sign, 30th anniversary subscription thing.  The description of what would be ...

Atlantic (1978) I made mention of this record in the 40th birthday tribute to Briefcase full of Blues I wrote a few days ago.  Unfortu...

Snappy Little Numbers (2018) I'm trying to do some end of the year clean up to get through the last few items that were sent to me...

More Power Tapes (2018) I'll admit it, while looking through the small pile of tapes I have looking for one to review, I chose Cyb...

Snuffy Smiles (2016) As I got ready to review this split 7", I had to look it up on Discogs to double check the year it was relea...

Atlantic (2017) Over the next few months, I will be writing about each of the individual albums in the Otis Redding Definitive Studio ...

Just Because / Peanut Butter (2018) I wasn't familiar with Cheap Clone prior to Just Because sending this record to me to check ou...

Snappy Little Numbers (2018) I have to say that I was completely taken aback by Great American House Fire when I put this record on th...

Merge (2018) Superchunk released another in their series of benefit 7"s recently and it features two new songs, one original and ...

Night Animal / Secret Pennies / Real Ghost (2018) New Junk City is a band that keeps randomly popping back into my life when I'm n...

On November 28th in 1978, the Blues Brothers album Briefcase Full of Blues was released.  Today marks forty years since this album came ...

Carpark (2018) I spent  a great deal of 2018 counting down the days until the new Cloud Nothings album was released.  Everything I rea...

Snappy Little Numbers (2018) I think this band has a silly name and although I'm not one that typically puts too much stock in a b...

Atlantic (2017) Over the next few months, I will be writing about each of the individual albums in the Otis Redding Definitive Studio ...

Waterslide (2017) Jamie 4 President is another project from Wild Animals singer/guitarist Jamie Ruiz Green.  I really think Wild Anima...

Night Animal (2018) I've been missing the band Rumspringer for years.  They were one of my favorite discoveries of the past ten ye...

Further Platonic (2017) I will have to admit up front that I am not familiar with the band Mainspring.  I bought this compilation CD b...

Sub Pop (2018) This week, I'm going to go through each of the four split 7"s that Sub Pop released as part of their SPF30 sin...

Sub Pop (2018) This week, I'm going to go through each of the four split 7"s that Sub Pop released as part of their SPF30 sin...

Sub Pop (2018) This week, I'm going to go through each of the four split 7"s that Sub Pop released as part of their SPF30 sin...

Sub Pop (2018) This week, I'm going to go through each of the four split 7"s that Sub Pop released as part of their SPF30 sin...

Atlantic (2017) As I continue to grow and document my collection of old soul records, I figured I would write up each of these Otis Re...

Anti-New Waves (2000) This compilation CD is one that I definitely picked up while I was in Japan.  In addition to the fact that it ha...

Goner (2018) The Carbonas are a band that I haven't really written about much as I had purchased the vast majority of their record...

Self Released (2016) I've mentioned a few times that I've been completely obsessed with The Pretty Flowers' full length Wh...