Hi friends, I think we can agree that this blog has pretty much given up the ghost. It happens. But if anyone is still subscribed to this RS...

I love this track, Marching Song , by Esben and the Witch . It sounds like impending doom approaching underneath a starless sky on a cold wi...

I first came across Jessica Lea Mayfield a couple years ago. She covered Buddy Holly's Words of Love , one of the few bright spots on a...

Originally, I wasn't planning on going to see PJ Harvey this coming April. Nothing she did would ever top this show I saw her play. My ...

Here is Lykke Li 's ode to melancholy, Sadness is a Blessing . Earlier this week, I ran into a copy of her new album, Wounded Rhymes , a...

I've been a fan of The Smiths enough that I have all the albums and I can probably quote more than a handful of Morrissey 's grea...

The ageless Dean Garcia has another project called Morpheme. So far, all I've heard is this track, Infection , which is part of a free ...

25 songs about California. A couple of them may be tenuous, but they all work in my mind. The title is a nod to the great San Francisco 49er...