65 Metal Album Reviews, 2012
Baroness, Cradle of Filth, High on Fire, Lamb of God, Napalm Death, the Sword, 59 more!
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Black Country History Lesson
...from the late 17th Century through the early 21st
The Abandoned Watson Chateau
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160 Best Singles of 1985
Songs about Japan, nostalgia for 1969 and the ‘50s, girls liking bad boys, so much more
Barney Review, 1993
Probably the only Rolling Stone review of an album by a purple dinosaur ever!
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How Home Improvement renovated TV’s ‘90s suburban sitcom man cave
150 Best Album Artists of the ‘60s
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5 Metal album reviews, 2006-2008
Amaseffer, Dornenreich, Farmakon, Jex Thoth, and Klabautamann
Dave Marsh, 1950-2026
Dave Marsh and I both came of age in the Oakland County, Michigan suburbs, northwest of Detroit — Waterford Kettering, the high school he graduated from in 1968, used to regularly play sports against West Bloomfield, the high school I graduated from exactly a decade later.
Minor League Teenpop Licks, 2003
Cooler Kids, Becky Baeling, and A.B. Quintanilla III Presents the Kumbia Kings
3Ds review, 1992
A New Zealand concept album about sounding like other bands who start with "V"
Poker Face's Paranoid Style of American Rock
At the century's dawn, a crappy Pennsylvania band foretold MAGA mass delusion
150 Best Album Artists of the '80s
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Olds Dress Young in Chuck's Chucks
On sneakers, shorts, T-shirts, boots, costumes, comic books, cereal, and middle age
16 Garage & Glam Rock album reviews, 2008-2009
Boss Martians, Crash Street Kids, Legless, Night Ranger, 6FtHick, Ugly Stick, more
Science Experiment Licks, 2003
Tom Hamilton/Mike Silverton/Al Margolis, FFEJ, and Themselves
Whitney Houston et. al. review, 1992
On dentist appointments and the best-selling soundtrack album ever