#50: LP, Forever For Now LP (the simple stage name chosen by singer-songwriter Laura Pergolizzi) creates impeccable, urgent pop songs that ride on her powerful, expressive and emotive voice. Just […]
Young the Giant, Mind Over Matter Leonard Cohen, Popular Problems Foster the People, Supermodel Merchandise, After the End Jack White, Lazoretto Lily Allen, Sheezus The Juan MacLean, In a Dream […]
I’m just finalizing my top 100 albums for 2014. (Yes, I realize it’s now February 2015 but 1) it takes time and 2) I don’t understand how anyone can put a top list together before the year ends or even shortly thereafter: albums come out right up to the end […]
It was an odd year in music: lots of great music, but very little that rose significantly above anything else. Hence a top 53 instead of a top 50: with only 10 points separating #1 from #50, I had a lot of ties! I used a formula that gives up to […]
My top 50 albums of 2013 list is finalized! That post is coming this weekend (once I complete short write-ups on each), but to get the process started, here are […]
Tom Acitelli’s The Audacity of Hops is, forgive me, a truly audacious book. To capture the whole history of the American craft beer movement, with its dizzying array of names, […]
I’m trying to get my blog going again – and, by popular request, I’m returning with a new edition of my iPod obsessions, the songs that are burning up my […]
