Archive: 2025

Just like that, another year in music has come and gone. While 2025 won’t be remembered as an all-time great year for landmark albums, there were plenty of bright spots. Longtime favorites like Stereolab and James McMurtry delivered some of their strongest work in decades, while scenes closer to home were well represented, with moe. […]

With the first month of winter officially upon us, snow, skiing, and cold-weather enthusiasts in general are no doubt rejoicing at the prospect of hitting the slopes and indulging in the plethora of wondrous recreational activities the season has to offer. Indeed, while the weather outside may be frightful for some, others often choose to […]

Art design is the first thing players notice in a casino game. It sets the tone, communicates important information, and builds trust. A clean, well-thought-out design helps players follow the action, understand the rules quickly, and feel in control from the first spin or card deal. Purpose and clarity Casino games move fast. Players make […]

Their first release in over 14 years, Forever, I’ve Been Being Born, finds Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter dealing with life, death, change, and renewal as the Seattle-based outfit’s fragile cosmic folk music drifts into the ether.  The band’s core, vocalist Sykes and guitarist Phil Wandscher, needed time to regroup and find inspiration after losing […]

For this year’s Record Store Day Black Friday lineup, Rhino puts The Doors front and center with Live in Copenhagen, a previously unreleased 1968 performance finally pulled from the vault. Pressed on crystal-clear vinyl and limited to 5,300 copies, the 2-LP set captures the band’s full early show from September 17th at the Falkoner Centret […]

For Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, Matchbox Twenty digs into their archive for a release that longtime fans probably didn’t expect but will immediately appreciate. Mad Season (Live 2001) arrives as a 2LP set pressed on opaque Flavors Truffle–colored vinyl and limited to 3,500 copies. More importantly, it marks the band’s first full-length live […]

Fifteen years on, What Separates Me From You feels like the moment A Day To Remember redrew the boundaries of what their hybrid of metalcore and pop-punk could hold. For the anniversary pressing, Craft Recordings has repressed the album on a Transparent Sea Glass variant with metallic album artwork. What Separates Me From You finds […]

Flowers in the Afternoon: Late-1960s Sunshine arrives as the third entry in Craft Recording’s psych/garage RSD trilogy. Where Poppies leaned into fuzzed-out oddities and Double Whammy played in Nuggets-style garage grit, this new installment zeroes in on that brief cultural moment when harmony, melody, and AM-radio optimism collided. Framed around producer and archivist Alec Palao’s […]

Creed’s rise at the turn of the millennium was fast, loud, and massive, and Live in San Antonio captures the band right in the middle of that unavoidable ascent. Recorded on November 14, 1999 at the Freeman Coliseum, the show falls squarely in their Human Clay breakout period, when the band was headlining arenas and […]

Rounding out our Thanksgiving-themed selections for the week, for today’s Weirdo Wednesday, we’re serving up this classic clip of Paul Simon performing “Still Crazy After All These Years” live on SNL from 1975…in a turkey costume. Granted, he doesn’t make it very far into the performance before he cuts it short and delivers an amusingly […]