This is what makes these An Album A Day posts so much fun for me. This, right here, today’s post. Because what’s better than an obscure reference to our national pastime on…
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Kowloon Walled City – Container Ships
I’m not having a good day. Or week. Or month. Here’s hoping for some levity, however brief, in what appears to be an unending string of shitty days. So I’ve been driving…
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Shellac – At Action Park
Steve Albini and baseball go together like…Steve Albini and poker. He’s appeared on the Baseball Prospectus podcast, he speaks about it often in interviews (sometimes using it as a metaphor or analogy,…
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Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Rockin’ And Romance
Guys, baseball season is half over. Technically, it’s more than half over. The Mets have played…92 games I think? Yeah, they still suck so I don’t want to look at the exact…
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Waterfall – Comin’ Down
I’m in a bit of a rush tonight As such, this week of sharing private press LPs will come to a very un-ceremonous ending as I post the tracklist and just a…
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Mike Scott – Arizona Light
This one is just too cool to pass up. It came through the store back in 2008 when we were processing some vinyl that came from one of the most insane memorabilia…
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Linda Lou – Linda Lou And The Three For All
So far this week we’ve looked at two dude singer-songwriters, so maybe today it’s time we take a feminine turn and chat about a private press record from a female-fronted troupe. The…
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Scott Jones – Roads
Not every private press record in the folk/rock vein was made by some struggling singer-songwriter from the south in the late ’60s or early ’70s. Scott Jones hailed from Minnesota and released…
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Bill Haymes – I Shall Be Released
Alright, I’ve strung you along for a few weeks, now let’s buckle down and delve a little deeper into my record collection. This week’s five An Album A Day entries will feature…
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Mono – The Phoenix Tree
Oh, folks. Happy Fourth of July. It’s time to conclude this week’s auditory adventure. And, honestly, nothing says ‘MURICA quite like Mono, a Japanese post-rock band. Recorded an engineered at Electrical Audio…