Top 50 Albums of 2023
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Year in Review: 2021
Looks like this blog has become much more occasional thing because, life. Apart from my Prince Report project, I didn’t write about any music this year. So instead of opening
The Prince Report
The above video is my personal tribute to His Purple Greatness. The Prince Drumalong Megamix Experience! It’s the culmination of months of in-depth study and practice. Earlier this year, I
Year In Review
Hello, and happy almost New Year! I haven’t been able to keep up with reviews since my son was born in April, and I also relocated my family to western
Late March / Early April Catch Up
I’m getting really behind with this blog and the albums that I want to review are piling up. So I’m going to have shorter reviews for this set of releases
Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays
I’m breaking form here and posting about an album that came out yesterday (rather than taking a week or two to review all the new music of interest before posting).
Late March 2020 Releases
Two exciting surprise albums! … Continue reading…Late March 2020 Releases
March 13th, 2020 – New Releases
I’m a few days later than usual with this one because there were so many albums to review, but it’s worth the wait! Lots of good stuff here. And now
March 6th, 2020 – New & Recent Releases
Staying home from work or school because of the global pandemic? What better time than now to check out some new music! I encourage you to go back to older
Feb 28th, 2020 – New Releases
Good news! I’ve been wanting to include links and/or embedded players for a while, and now I’ve finally done that! Bandcamp’s embedded player is the best for this, because it
Feb 21, 2020 – New Releases
Welcome! It’s been another solid week with some really great new releases; including a few that will likely make my year end list. I’m starting a “Pick of the Week”
Feb 14th, 2020 – New Releases
Last Friday morning I added 65 releases to my music library for review consideration. 28 passed the first round, which was still way too much for me to do in
Feb 7th, 2020 – New Releases
METAL Sepultura – Quadra I haven’t paid close attention to Sepultura in a long time, and have only briefly sampled some of their last… seven releases, but I’m going to
Jan 31st, 2020 – New Releases
METAL Leeched – To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse Leeched is not messing around on their sophomore record for Prosthetic Records. The influence of Converge and Neurosis is
Jan 24th, 2020 – New Releases
METAL Kirk Windstein – Dream in Motion I bought Down’s NOLA and Crowbar’s Time Heals Nothing in 1995 (25 years ago!), at the age of 12, and have remained
January 10th & 17th, 2020 – New Releases
ELECTRONIC Colossal Squid – Swungert The first two times I listened to this album, I wasn’t sure how many people I was hearing. There’s an impressive mixture of a variety
December 2019 releases
I had so much going on with my winter concert (I’m a middle school music teacher), holidays, AND website technical difficulties (revamping in progress) that I didn’t even have time
New Releases – November 29th, 2019
METAL Teeth – The Curse of Entropy This is one of those weird situations where I know how good a band would be live, and I would love
New Releases – 11/15/19 and 11/22/19
Even though I reviewed far less albums from 11/15, I had a busy work week, so it took me longer to complete. Then there were only two albums I