Dahlia Seed: Survived By | Adopt This Album
Even though I classify Dahlia Seed's Survived By as a summer album, it is also one of my top 20 favorites ever, and I often visit it multiple times a year.
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The Smiths – The Queen is Dead: Unhappy 30th Birthday
30 years ago, the Smiths released The Queen is Dead, arguably their finest recorded effort. The staff at B.G.M. celebrates the album a track by track.
Ginger Baker Goes Absolutely Wild on No Material
Ginger Baker's No Material played without setlists or prepared material and was all improv, explains M Milner, and remains a compelling listen decades later
Adopt This Album: Porches – Pool
Porches through Pool, has provided a valuable lesson. Own who you are, where you are, and how you are; then you can settle for your best yet.
Adopt this Album: Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship – Blows Against the Empire
Let Jefferson Starship's Blows to the Empire carry you into space; you’ll have a big stupid grin on your face by the time you slingshot into the ether.
Adopt This Album: Grand Vapids – Guarantees
Grand Vapids' album Guarantees blends impressive songwriting, brilliant melancholy crawls, and constant mood changes to create a brightly shining whole.
Adopt This Album: Judgement Night (Soundtrack)
For my money, only one album comes delivers on rap-rock's early promise - the soundtrack to obscure 90s rich-boys-in-ghetto-peril thriller Judgement Night.
Adopt This Album: Sleater-Kinney – The Hot Rock
With 1999's The Hot Rock, Sleater-Kinney took a necessary step back to become one the best rock groups of the decade, M. Milner explains.
Adopt This Album: Weakwick – For Show
Weakwick's For Show is a nauseating whirlwind of precipitous guitar and drum work that at times sounds like a rusty carnival ride that shouldn't be riden.
The Journey of Tame Impala’s Currents
The lesson Tame Impala's Currents tries to drill into our skulls is simple, but in the right hands (Kevin Parker's) simultaneously sublime is Let it happen.