Clichés be damned -- this really was a good year for metal. I had a harder time organizing a Top 10 in 2010 than ever before. Ditto the Top 20. It was such a good year that I went overboard and…   Read Story »

This is not the longtime (and awesome) Japanese psych band, Ghost. It's the newish (and awesome) Swedish band, Ghost. Instead of the tree-climbing acid folk and Kraut leanings of the elder crew, we…   Read Story »

It wasn't so long ago I posted about Galaxie 500 reissuing their original three albums and, in the process, brought up Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang's Damon & Naomi, Magic Hour, and the renaissance…   Read Story »