I recently went down a rabbit hole when I saw a social media post about the Billboard Modern Rock Chart from 1994. Looking over those 30 tracks really hit the perfect nostalgic notes for me so I tried to see if I could find the weekly charts for the rest of the year. I was unsuccessful in...
I really enjoy old magazines and just came across a site that has uploaded scanned copies of damn near every issue of Billboard Magazine dating back to the 1890s! It's a lot of fun to poke around in.
That Roy Montgomery album featured in Pitchfork’s Sunday review, Temple IV is really great. FFO Jim O'Rourke and Spacemen 3. Looks like it’s being pressed for the first time on vinyl and set to be released this March via Kranky.
I am watching Northern Exposure on Amazon Prime and heard a cool song and Shazamed it. Learned it was a song called “D.W. Suite” off of Lindsey Buckingham’s 2nd solo album, Go Insane. Turns out the “D.W.” Was a tribute to Dennis Wilson who had recently died. The song is excellent. I need to explore this further.
Around these parts some of us enjoy participating in a Monthly Challenge Thread. Each month a member leads the thread, coming up with a theme & then we all attempt to spin an album that matches that day criteria.