Whew! What a weekend. Wait, was it what a weekend? I don't even remember what I did Friday night! I know I worked late…but after that…Oh, right, I stayed in. That wasn't at all exciting, was it? And last night I went across town to cash in on a dinner bet and hang out in [...]

Battered Ornaments were credited as the backup band to Pete Brown on their first album, 1969′s A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark. For the follow-up, however, they chucked Brown out of the band and released it simply as the Battered Ornaments. It's a disappointment after its flawed but worthwhile predecessor, mostly [...]

There I was, somewhere on the 134 heading West, trying in vain (again) to get all the way through The Invisible Way, when I started to wonder, "This is easily the WORST studio album Low has released, right? I mean…it has to be. What's worse than this?" And I drove, and I thought, and for [...]

Dear Sir, While I appreciate your desire to appear formal, I'm pretty sure you can't use the word "appointment" to describe the act of waiting an hour for you outside Ralph's seated next to a guy who smells like he's been marinating in his own urine for weeks. Sincerely, Evan I don't know what you [...]

In the midst of my grand scheme to own every (worthwhile) Vertigo Swirl ever produced on this planet, there's Flied Egg's Good Bye, which Julian Cope (je-sais-tout of progressive and psychedelic music) hates but I quite enjoy. Cope writes of Good Bye, "Flied Egg’s second and final album…was a far less eclectic and therefore much [...]

Hmm…what could this be? Trans-Millenia Consort - Power And Mystery [MP3]