Melanie — Live At Drury Lane
Honestly, I don’t get too excited about Record Store Day – I’m not a fan of created scarcity and the commercial push to go to a certain place on a certain day or completely...
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Aimee Mann — Bachelor No. 2 or, The Last Remains of the Dodo
This was the album that gave me an absolutely stunning introduction to Aimee Mann. I knew her name from years before with ‘Til Tuesday, and had probably heard about her previous release, “I’m With...
The Left Banke — Walk Away Renee / Pretty Ballerina
This is truly one of the most important albums in my life. I’m sure I picked it up in those early days of my record-collecting, when any oldie was a good oldie (almost), and...
Lake Street Dive – Fun Machine: The Sequel
Here’s the last of my Lake Street Dive records – and I think the last of the catch-up records. As I have tried to go through my record collection alphabetically, I decided to stop...
Lake Street Dive — Obviously
A 2021 release, y’all! I don’t live entirely in the past! Back at the beginning of 2018, our local coffeehouse was gonna be hosting a show by a duo called Rachael and Vilray, and...
Lake Street Dive – Obviously
I don’t refer to the pandemic in the past tense – it’s still very much with us, and the effects are still just as deadly for some. We managed to evade COVID until this...
The Kinks — Face to Face
So here’s where we move into the 2020s with me making up for lost time on bands that I love, would consider myself a deeply devoted fan of, and yet have only a limited...
Kinks – Kinks
Sometimes things linger so long on my “new acquisitions” shelf that I forget that I’ve already written about them. So, no, I didn’t accidentally buy two copies of this reissue. I just wrote about...
The Kinks — Kinks
I’ve been a fan of The Kinks since college. Of course, their songs were in the backdrop all through my youth, just like any of the other British invasion groups. In fact, more than...
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