The Smashing Pumpkins latest album, Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (phew), quickly became my favorite rock album of 2018. For a longtime […]
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My Favorite Pop Album of 2018
I can’t remember the first time I heard Still Corners, but I’m guessing it was long before I knew who they were. I believe it was through a Pandora channel […]
My Favorite Instrumental Album of 2018
I have friends (you know who you are) that pay a lot of attention to new music that comes out every month, week, or even day. For a time I […]
ETF season one
In the middle of 2018 I launched the Erase the Filter podcast. My original goal was to produce a weekly show featuring unconventional, experimental, atmospheric, and ethereal music and art. Unexpected […]
Pearl Season
For as long as I can remember there has been a single album that acts as my annual soundtrack to the three month stretch from mid-August through mid-November. It comes […]
Everything Was in Its Right Place
I traveled back to the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia for the second of two arena shows in less than five days. This time it was for Radiohead’s 2018 summer […]
Shiny and Oh So Bright
The Smashing Pumpkins 2018 Shiny and Oh So Bright tour features a three-hour marathon retrospective of the first ten years of the band’s recorded output from Gish (1991) to Machina/The Machine of […]
Rook (mostly) Solo and Why It Matters
Here’s an example of what’s inherently good about the Internet. Ten years ago I heard a new album from a band that I had grown fond of in the years […]
Who Is Jason Sloan?
Jason Sloan is an incredibly accomplished electronic musician, composer, and sound artist from Baltimore, Maryland. Over the past two decades he has recorded dozens of ambient/electronic solo albums and collaborations, […]
New Gently Beautiful Songs from Mazzy Star
There’s something really remarkable about the impact of Mazzy Star’s music despite a very thin catalog with a vast majority (three full length studio albums) being released between 1991 and […]