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...
Category: Alternative
Courtney Barnett — Things Take Time, Take Time
In the natural order of things, parents can have an outsized influence on their kids’ musical tastes, or at least experiences. But it can flow the other way as well. When my kids were...
Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
After my offspring introduced me to the wonder of Courtney Barnett, through their 2021 “Things Take Time, Take Time,” I spent a lot of time YouTubing Courtney Barnett songs, which led me back to...
Tori Amos – Ocean To Ocean
Still playing catch-up: I definitely had a Tori Amos phase, but as with most things, it was after she’d had her moment with the “Little Earthquakes” and “Under the Pink” albums. I was aware...
Dave Alvin – Eleven Eleven
Again, playing catch-up with new purchases that were out of my alphabetical order. When I started this vanity project, I didn’t imagine this would be such a problem, because I was gonna move through...
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