The Meat Puppets -- II

  What happens when a punk band take themselves seriously and embrace their lazy 70's classic rock side, this seminal album that birthed alternative, indie and grunge music ... let alone a countless slew of other sub-genres.  

Charles Mingus -- The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

    Written like a tumultuously interpretive dance soundtrack which unfolds as you listen to this jazz masterwork.  It's sound is set in a city scape, like desolate untold stories that have deep merit, struggle and feeling.

Todd Rundgren -- Something/ Anything

  70's AM pop masterpiece, Rundgren hits every facet of the genre on his double LP, you've got from Carol King to Genesis to Zeppelin within a few moves.  This album perfectly emulates a time capsule for that era!

Doris Duke -- I'm A Loser

  Doris Duke's heartfelt, innovative and tortured deep soul album.  Each track describes the pangs of femininities love and loss ... joke is all the tracks were written by men, but without Duke's strong and fragile voice the songs would not have taken any life.

Mac DeMarco -- 2

  Man when I first got into Mac DeMarco I had this curmudgeon indie snob opinion about his music but now that I get more and more into it, I love it!!  He's like the voice of the millennial generation, a 90's slacker hybrid for the new era!!

Johnny De Courcy -- The Master Manipulator EP

  A groove laden indie modern day glam-y new wave-ish EP mixed with 60's French pop vibes, filled with saxophones, psychedelia, organ, strings, piano and tears.  I saw this guy play live with his band and he was a virtual tour de force!

https://johnnydecourcy.bandcamp.com

BEST FIEND

  An awesome surfy throwback to 80's punk with a modern twist, a sorta Jon Spencer meets The Gun Club, meaning it's loud, wild and drenched in Rock'n'Roll, I can't help but remember trading a smoke for a swig from the singer's flask of rum as he mowed out his manifesto about rockness and booze!!

https://bestfiends.bandcamp.com

Walrus -- Goodbye Something

   Walrus the band that I've seen more times than I could count on two hands and a couple toes.  There's a kind of Ty Segall 60's indie psych pop feel with an east coast punkish Eric's Trip style that has Slint-y math rock time changes but with a rhythmic pulse, it's a tall fuckin' order, but these guys pull it off in spades.  As a true believer in Walrus just you wait 'til you see their live set to get into the powerful essence of their sound, this EP is good medicine when you're in withdrawals!

 https://walrustheband.bandcamp.com