Sure, some of that's true, and I wrote elsewhere that it's especially true when it comes to casual fans shelling out god knows what for vinyl editions. But for fans, some of it's totally worth it. I'm thinking of the bootleg of Sonny Rollins box set of his work with Don Cherry at the Village gate. It's completely…

At this point, if you're buying jazz reissues on 180 gram vinyl you're really wasting a lot of money. They don't sound better on vinyl no matter how you want to spin it: "warmth," "authenticity," "ritual". Buy old editions from 70s - 80s on vinyl when they actually knew how to press the stuff and it wasn't totally…

Her awful poem "Follow Him" on buzzfeed that both simultaneously throws the entire Kurdish struggle against ISIS in Syria under the bus, while also being a hit piece on Brace Belden and his girlfriend is enough for me never to check out this collection unfortunately. It's the kind of writing now that makes me never…

I also don't think Fugazi would have ever played at anything this fucking corny, despite y'know the economics of the thing.

Justin Vernon's hero is Ian Mackaye. Just let that sit with you for a little while.

there's no point to this comment, but holy shit there's really no point to this fucking video. what a bunch of unlikable turds. 0/10

Ok, wish there could be a moratorium on films that are a love letter to NYC, or where NYC is a character, or fucking anything to do with NYC at this point. We get it, there's no place like New York… sort of, well, actually, no, it's as shell of the interesting place it used to be. Get over it.

If I recommend only one album by them it's A Shedding of Skin

What Time Is It There?
In my opinion, is by far more interesting and affecting than the Lynch. Never understood the unabashed worship of MD.

Protector's 9 lp box set from High Roller records - if you're not familiar (and why would you be), Protector was a underrated Teutonic thrash/death band that started in the mid 80s that never got flabby (despite line up changes) like other bands of that same ilk (Kreator, Sodom, Destruction). I like their whole…

jealous

woah, who released the HIjokaidan box? I probably can't afford it, but dang.

yeah, yesterday… he had a long run.

Well, let's see:

Straight up number one for gold in the douche bag Olympics.

oof, no way. PG is awful. But agree to disagree I guess.

If Thundercat makes it "ok" for douchie indie kids to start liking Doobie Brothers unironically… that's sad. They were always ok to like. I grew up with that music and love it. IT's been fine to like for years, you fools. Kenny Loggins as well. More power to Thundercat, but jesus…

Keiji Haino's first documented appearance in the early 70s reissued on Black Truffle. After about 5 minutes of wonderful skree my wife told me to turn it off. It's great.

This week I'm listening to a lot of Portuguese black metal like:

this sounds resolutely average. I still want to see it just for Elliott.