Sound and Soul’s Halloween Mixtape
The candy bowl is filled, the pumpkins are carved, all the good little boys and ghouls got their fangs and claws sharpened and shined–…
Pop Culture
Required Listening: Five Albums for Fall
Fall brings shorter days and longer sleeves, but it also delivers waves of nostalgia! Perhaps it’s because the months are punctuated by Halloween and…
Required Listening: Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger
Bo Diddley’s album covers are irresistible, his beat hypnotic, and so it goes with his fifth long-player, 1961’s Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger. Dressed…
Required Listening: I’m a Loser
Doris Duke was born in Sandersville, Georgia– most notable for its chalk and Dairy Lane– and like many R&B/soul artists, she found gospel music…
Required Listening: L.A.M.F.
In the mid-1980s, my dad’s friend and sometimes coworker Dicky flickered in and out of our lives, leaving town to avenge some loss, attend…
Required Listening: Native Son
Like your favorite season, The Judybats 1991 debut Native Son conjures moments of exploding possibility or reassuring melancholy– perhaps a Spring that sends you…
Required Listening: The Velvet Underground & Nico
According to author Martin Amis, “It is the summit of idleness to deplore the present, to deplore actuality.” Here, Amis reminds us that reality,…
Required Listening: Bill Jerpe
The legends surrounding a cult classic often outstrip the music’s realities. Perhaps an album remains a “Best Record You’ve Never Heard” mainstay simply because…
Required Listening: Liliput
Formed in 1978, the year of punk’s supposed death, the girls of Liliput (formerly known as Kleenex) apparently forgot to read– or more likely…