My recent obsession with looking at the sales rankings of albums on Amazon gave me the idea for this post: Four of my favorite albums from the 1990s that are not currently among Amazon’s top 25,000 best selling albums. Olivia Tremor Control – Dusk at Cubist Castle (#49,389) This lofi sprawling psychedelic masterpiece from 1996 [...]

I’m looking over some of the upcoming album releases scheduled to be released through May and I decided I’d like to share those that I’m interested in buying (in hopes that you may be interested as well, eh?) Click on the album name to pre-order it on Amazon. These are new albums by bands who [...]

Today I’m continuing my series for “three great albums” for each year beginning in 2007 and working backwards (I’m planning on keeping at this until I reach 1964.) I’m at 1997 today and this is a year I’ve been looking forward to as I think it’s my personal favorite year for music for the last [...]

First let me define what I mean by “rated” (because without doing that, “underrated” doesn’t mean much.) I’m talking specifically about the “ratings” of people in the US because some of these bands are actually quite highly rated in the UK (The Stone Roses & Oasis being obvious examples.) I’m talking about a combination of [...]

A little ways back I did story on three of my favorite albums from 1998. But 1998 was never a year that really stood out for me (Despite In the Aeroplane over the Sea which is one of my favorite albums), the year before on the other hand is almost certainly my favorite year of [...]