Happy Major League Baseball Opening Night, everybody! I’d also like to extend an especially Happy OMLBN to reader Bennett “Lawdrone,” the resident Cubs fan around here. His team has been projected by pretty…
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Gil Veda – This Man
From the first strains (and I should emphasize the word strains here) of “Prison Without Bars” it’s clear this is not your usual lounge-y/ballad-y/rock-y mash-up of styles commonly found on private-press, homemade recordings. This…
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New Flames Up In Flames
It’s been a busy week. I’m relishing this opportunity to sit on my couch and shut off my brain. Other than cooking dinner I don’t intend to move from this spot for a…
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Sue – Songs By Sue
Ten songs. Nineteen minutes. No, this is not an exclusive look at the new Anal Cunt record. Nor is it a fond look back at some early Minutemen demos. This is Songs…
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Richard H. Baker – The First Coming
This one’s a pretty big deal in the sense that if you search Google for “Richard H. Baker” and “The First Coming” there’s practically no information available about this album except for…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: Nest at WP24
When last we checked in with Dinner Club For Day People, the seven of us were dining downtown at Otium. Remember that whole diatribe I wrote about Nate discarding his gum on a…
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Don Snow Army – On Rock Mountain
“The Don Snow Army has a prime objective: to climb up Rock Mountain! They came together eight years ago from three little towns in Southern California. Over twenty musical soldiers have done…
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Things To Come
I’m throwing this mix together quickly while I take a break from an extracurricular project I’m working on with a Wednesday due-date. Once I’ve finished it I’ll have some time to share…
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A Labyrinth Of Alleyways
I was out the other night with some friends when I stumbled into what I would consider to be the most uncomfortable conversation imaginable: A writer talking to a writer about what they write. Other than…
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Janarae Merkley – Janarae & Noonday (Johnson, 1970s)
Pretty much nothing exists (on the internet) in regards to this record. Hell, I don’t even know if it was issued with that generic looking die-cut cover, or if someone along the…