A wildly uneven yet curious reissue of an impossibly rare album Real Gone Music Blues and Haikus is American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac’s second album, originally released in 1959 and long out-of-print on vinyl. The album largely consists of Kerouac’s spoken-word poetry, with Zoot Sims and Al Cohn...
Classic miniseries score gets an expanded vinyl release Waxwork Records Richard Bellis’ IT score excels at one of the hardest things to pull off in horror music: subtlety. While there remains plenty of quick synth stabs and crashes peppered throughout, it’s the quiet piano and strings that deceptively...
Ness’ ‘Cheating at Solitaire’ holds up stronger than collection of covers Craft Recordings Back when I was 19 or 20 — roughly contemporary with the release of Mike Ness’ solo albums — I possessed a Social Distortion wallet. Not just any wallet, either: it was leather, with snaps,...
Sparc + Jazz Dispensary: Private Stock Series 001 Some ideas make too much sense not to explore, like combining a record label named Jazz Dispensary with an actual cannabis dispensary chain in California. This 7” release promises to be the first in their “Private Stock” series, showcasing two of the marijuana-themed...
Modest Mouse cover record unremarkable musically, but shines as a physical RSD release CMH Records These genre inversion cover albums have been around in various forms for a while now — lullaby, string, bluegrass, et al. — and the concept is pretty simple. The artist being covered — Metallica,...
Craig Smith collection has one pondering the connection between music, the story behind creation Maitreya Apache Music Sound Opinions, the long-running public radio music program from Chicago’s WBEZ, frequently makes a point with which I rarely agree, in that the story behind an album can render a release...
