Ahhhhhhhhhhh - the Heroin "paper bag" 7" was the first record I ever bought, along with Unbroken's "and / fall on proverb". Heroin as a band holds up better than Unbroken, but the Unbroken 7" is the only thing I can really still listen to from them.

In the article, he makes it pretty clear that for HIM, Unwound is the best band of the 90's. He also makes a case for Leaves Turn Inside You as a 90's album.

Let's Dance is a great album. Anyone who is just getting into Nile Rodgers from the last Daft Punk album would do well to check it out. (I also think The Hunger is a flawed masterpiece.)

YES. Keep 'em coming. Only disappointment is the lack of a Man Is The Bastard video.

I think post hardcore is one of the more useful terms out there, and it has been used in the punk press since at least the early 90's. The original bands I always heard referred to as post-hardcore (CIV, Quicksand, Jawbox, and later Texas Is The Reason, Sense Field, etc.)… it makes a lot of sense in their sound. They…

Yeah, it's awesome. Pretty much anything you could hope for, arranged in a suitably confusing fashion. For example, if you want something from Michael Mann or Albert Brooks, you'd have to look in "Maverick Directors", not "American Action" or "American Comedy", respectively. (Obviously their selection goes a lot…

Roger Ebert hand-picked him to co-host the last iteration of "At The Movies", and he helps run the best rental place in Chicago, Odd Obsession.

Woah, Rorschach & Turning Point in an article I thought was only going to be about Social Distortion? Great! Also, The Dead Science (Constellation Recs) from Seattle were highly influenced by Shudder To Think: http://youtu.be/RD_-quXlYLM   (They also backed up Craig Wedren on a couple tours, although that stuff seemed…

Of course major labels are going too far with this shit. They go too far with everything. Those that have been buying vinyl for the past 15-50 years will still be buying it in 10 more. Some of the people that have picked it up (again, or for the first time) in the past 5 years will still with it, others will stop. I…

I'm convinced Leroy Bach was the super secret secret weapon of early-mid period Wilco. He's a quiet guy - see him around Chicago all the time, playing jazz and improv stuff, so I can see why people don't pay much attention to him, but once he left after Ghost Is Born, things were never the same in Wilco. As a fan of…

The Paperboy was one of the best movies I have seen in the last year.