HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVE!  PAR-TAY!

I know, I know.  I already wrote about this once, and said I couldn’t really put together a definitive “best of” list.  But I’ve done more research, much more reading, and I’ve come to conclude that I can!  And have!  This list builds on that old one—you can just ignore that post, in fact, and [...]

Seattle’s Volcano Diary may fool you.  What they’re doing here is clearly indie rock, but you’re going to hear strains of pop and classic rock: Think Melissa Etheridge, without a ballsy voice, or Edie Brickell, with a ballsy band. Alicia Dare, the singer/songwriter who serves as the frontperson for the band has a wickedly good [...]

Julie the Band’s new EP, “Wild As the Sky”, is, put simply, terrific.  It’s a tightly crafted amalgam of indie rock, indie soul, and Americana.  And there’s no Julie to be found.  It’s an all-male team from SoCal who sound like they’ve been playing, singing, and writing together for years. On Baby Bird records. I [...]

Okay, maybe the worst is too harsh.  For my last 2010 list, I’m digging into the albums that should have been much better than they were–either because of hype or expectation based on past performance.  So they’re not worse than Justin Bieber or that kinda nonsense but, really, guys–if this was the best you could [...]

This will be my last post of comic book news of the year, and I’m going out with a big one.  You’ve probably heard some of this before, but even if you have, it bears repeating.  I’ll probably bring this “news” feature back next year, but I’m undecided for sure.  Do you all enjoy it? [...]

I really wasn’t in the mood to post Christmas songs this year.  Guess I got a bit of the Grinch, what with the HOPEful man I voted for deciding he’d rather bail out big corporations and then extend tax cuts to their executives rather than help out at-risk mortgage holders by requiring reasonable renegotiation with [...]