Florence + The Machine — Ceremonials
I bought the follow-up to Florence + the Machine’s debut pretty much as soon as it came out in 2011, and listened to it a lot back then. The songs are excellent, and I...
Category: Alternative
Florence + The Machine — Lungs
There’s plenty of stuff in my iTunes collection from my kids’ teen years that I hadn’t the slightest interest in, and there are huge swaths of my creaky old collection you couldn’t pay them...
Fake Fruit – Fake Fruit
Remember when Twitter stopped being any kind of fun and became a complete hellscape? Looking to fill a social media void, I decamped to Mastodon, and set about filling up my timeline with posts...
The Clash – If Music Could Talk
(Still catching up on relatively recent acquisitions, still struggling with doing anything in alphabetical order) Delighting in this Father’s Day gift from my kid – a Record Store Day release from 2021 of a...
The Clash – Combat Rock, The People’s Hall Special Edition
By the time The Clash actually hit it big, I was completely uninterested. I had listened obsessively to “London Calling”, “Black Market Clash,” and “Sandinista,” but you couldn’t have paid me to listen to...
Bully – Lucky For You
Like Bikini Kill, I found out about this by pulling a shift in my local record store and deciding to give it a listen. Unlike Bikini Kill, I had never even heard of Bully...
Bully – Sugaregg
I swear, my ability to lie to myself is just extraordinary. I keep telling myself I’m going to make some headway on this list, catching up with records I’ve bought in the past couple...
Bikini Kill – The Singles
Immediately after getting the Bikini Kill EP last fall, this collection of singles popped up on Bandcamp and I grabbed it immediately. No overlap with the EP, this is a series of singles released...
Bikini Kill – Bikini Kill
Every now and then, I “work” in my friend’s record store. And by “work,” I mean that I am barely capable of guiding people to what they’re looking for and taking their money when...
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