I wasn’t sure what to expect from Radiohead drummer Phil Selway’s debut solo album, Familial out on August 31st, but I just listened to four tracks from the album and I think they are really nice. It has a very quiet contemplative singer-songwriter type vibe to it but with some hints of Radiohead in the [...]

The Beatles were actively recording songs from 1962 through 1969. To be precise; they did record some demos prior to 1962, most of them can be heard on The Beatles Anthology 1, and they finished a single song in 1970, “I Me Mine” on 1/3/70, but obviously choosing the five best songs from the demos [...]

Weezer has a new album, Hurley (yes, as in Hurley from LOST), coming out on September 14th. But despite having this new album coming out Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo recently said “We have this really exciting idea to do a tour where we spend two nights in each city, and the first night, we play [...]

The current bestselling albums on Amazon.com with my commentary for each. #1 Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin I’ve been planning on checking this out myself, but I haven’t got to it yet. I’m a huge fan of Brian Wilson and I think this is a pretty cool idea. In fact I may buy [...]

Hey guys (and girls). I apologize for not writing a post in a while. My life has become as intense as it can possibly be. Anyways, I just got back from a trip to LA, and got a good chance to listen to some music, especially while sitting in never ending bumper to bumper traffic! [...]

Today it was announced that remastered versions of The Beatles 1973 “best of” compilations (known as “The Red Album” & “The Blue Album“) are set to be released on October 18th (in most of the world, and the 19th in the US & Canada.) While this was not The Beatles news I was hoping to [...]

Arcade Fire’s third album, The Suburbs, has debuted at #1 in both the US and UK. I think this means that “indie rock” is now officially mainstream, or something like that. I’m actually not much of a fan of Arcade Fire. I find their approach to be a bit over-dramatic. They remind me of my [...]

From time to time I like to check out the Billboard album charts to see what kind of music people are buying in mass quantities these days. This is one of those times. I’m mostly pretty detached from the “pop” world (most of my favorite new music doesn’t sell huge quantities) so this is my [...]