Sloan, "Deeper Than Beauty" Sloan are a rarity, a band who clearly should have been big in America, but instead settled for a long and celebrated career in Canada. This stuff, really smart power pop, absolutely could have broken through at basically any...
Mantar, "Eternal Return" I long ago ran out of stuff to say about Mantar, so let's just have a close listen to this. The shift up to the double-time drums fifty seconds in is nice. And a nice change in the...
Run-D.M.C., "Raising Hell" I'm sure I've told the story before, but Raising Hell was the first album I remember buying for myself. I heard "Peter Piper" on the radio while we were driving to Pullman,...
Slapstick, "She Doesn't Love Me" Yesterday, I mentioned I don't listen to Pegboy much any more, and it's largely because I've stepped away from most of the melodic punk I used to listen to. When...
Lando Chill, "The King Of Salem" This album is apparently inspired by the book The Alchemist, which I have not read, so I learned that only from reading about the record. That probably means I'm not really cool enough to be...