When most people think of novelty music, they think of “Weird Al” Yankovic; I’m mainly lookin’ at you, fellow elder-Gen Z types. I, too, w…
From the Record Crate
From the Record Crate is about looking back. It’s about reaching into your music collection and pulling out an old favorite, or looking through dollar bins for older CDs you’ve never heard. It’s as much about obscure albums you’ve never heard as it is about albums that are constantly ranked among the all-time greatest.
From the Record Crate: The Avalanches – “Since I Left You” (2000)
Despite the ever-evolving nature of music, and the endless amount of landmark records that are released every year, there are few albums in music hist…
From the Record Crate: Talking Heads – “Remain In Light” (1980)
The Talking Heads’ ear for new genre collages can be tracked from their first record, to their last, but through a clever usage of afrobeat, electroni…
From the Record Crate: Rilo Kiley – “Rilo Kiley” (2000)
Rilo Kiley, the Southern California indie-rock band that flourished through most of the 2000s, began with a humble EP released in 1999. That EP, self-…
From the Record Crate: Bruce Springsteen – “Born to Run” (1975)
After the birth of rock and roll around the early ‘40s, its popularity slowly grew until its inevitable explosion in the 1950s. The eventual spawn of …
From the Record Crate: Raekwon – “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…” (1995)
If there’s one hip-hop group – and symbol – that’s likely to be immortalized in music culture forever, it’s the Wu-Tang Clan, and their unmistakable “…
From the Record Crate: Arcade Fire – “The Suburbs” (2010)
The Suburbs sounds like adolescence, and that’s not just because of its prominence on my favorite Pandora Radio channels in the early 2010s. Arcade Fi…