Zach B.
Random Old Records Podcast #41
Click here to Read Original post Jesus Christ, things are crazy as shit in the midwest right now! Tornadoes, hail, sunshine, and a huge pile of badass rock n’ roll records to listen to are among the highlights. Random Old Records Podcast #41 is now out and about, and it features an hour of some [...]
ROR #001: 20th Century Tokyo Princess – I’ve Never Been Happy & I’ve Never Had Fun
Click here to Read Original post Ted Clark is 37 years old, works in a liquor store, and hates rock n’ roll. He fronts the 20th Century Tokyo Princess, and writes songs that take the life lessons he learned while trawling the back catalog of Lou Reed and Jonathan Richman and turns them into loud, [...]
Random Old Records Podcast #40
Click here to Read Original post Goddamn! 2012 is less than two months old, and there’s already so much kick-ass rock n’ roll coming out that it’s making my head spin! So yeah, this time around, Random Old Records Podcast #40 is an uninterrupted hour of straight-up jams, because there just wasn’t any room for [...]
Random Old Records Podcast #39
Click here to Read Original post Whew, even after I promised myself last year that I would never do it again, I went ahead and made a top 25 albums of the year list that took me damn near a month to complete. Naturally, I posted the last of it yesterday long after all of [...]
The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 5: 05-01
Click here to Read Original post 5. Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread (Drag City) If the slow, steady strum that kicks off this album didn’t give it away, the press release written by none other than 60s Rolling Stones manager and bon vivant Andrew Loog Oldham sure as hell does. Goodbye Bread is garage punk [...]
The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 4: 10-06
Click here to Read Original post 10. Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’ (Hardly Art) I originally had this record placed a few slots lower, but after I realized how much I walk around singing Glazin’s best hooks to myself like I quoted Simpsons references as a teenager, its position in the top ten was a given. [...]
The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 3: 15-11
Click here to Read Original post 15. The People’s Temple – Sons Of Stone (HoZac) When I first picked up Sons Of Stone, it didn’t really register. After the first couple of plays, this Michigan band of brothers just seemed like regular ol’ garage rockers, even if they did get the primal, sun-baked 60s sound [...]
The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 2: 20-16
Click here to Read Original post 20. Pure X – Pleasure (Acephale) Like a lot of people now afraid to admit it, I was entranced by My Morning Jacket’s brand of reverb-drenched hillbilly rock back in the early 2000s. Back then, I had a lot of free time on my hands and liked to drive [...]
The 25 Best LPs of 2011, Part 1: 25-21
Click here to Read Original post 25. Widowspeak (Captured Tracks) Sure, Widowspeak vocalist Molly Hamilton is a dead ringer for Hope Sandoval, but the band’s new spin on dark, mid-80s post-punk cowboy rock is a lot different from Mazzy Star’s elegant, noisy torch ballads. On tracks like lead-off single “Gun Shy” and “In The Pines,” [...]
Random Old Records Podcast #38
Click here to Read Original post 2011 is almost over, and holy shit, where did the time go?! The past twelve months were filled with all kinds of good things for me on the life front, and much like last year, there was a HUGE amount of crucial rock n’ roll records released and a [...]
