jj no. 2 The soundtrack to my summer, heard it at too many parties and in too many cars…but still not enough
Neon Indian Psychic Chasms The soundtrack to my summer, pt 2. Me and (noted Bloomingtonian) Jon Coombs jamming this in the middle of Indiana outside some greasy pizza joint, again through the corn fields [...]

Bill Callahan Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle To be honest, Callahan could probably release anything and I would love it.  He’s one of my favorite lyricists and there’s a sort of wryness to his voice that has got me since I heard “Julius Caesar” way back.  Another sort of honest statement is that [...]

Tune-Yards Bird-Brains Come for the amazing syncopated percussion and jangling ukulele, stay for the double-tracked yodeling!  From the first track, I knew that not only was I going to really like and jam on this album all year, but that it was going to be a critically important piece of work to me as a [...]

Bill Callahan, like his contemporary Will Oldham, has resurrected, or perhaps even created, a style of intensely personal, starkly delivered music in the vein of Townes Van Zandt that never manages to give way to the bleakness that underscores its creation (which would make them Jandek). Callahan in particular places his quirky baritone at the [...]