So, I was sitting around the other night, re-reading some of my posts here on Sod. I do this often. It’s a great way to bask in my glory. But seriously, I was re-reading my music reviews so far, so I could decide what to review next. After reading through them all, I realized something [...]

It had been almost five full years since the last proper Apples In Stereo album when I was up late one night in December of last year, watching The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Stephen was conducting a guitar solo competition between himself and the lead guitarist for The Decemberists. The back story is readily [...]

I was all set to finish up my review of the next album on my Top Ten list, The Apples In Stereo’s New Magnetic Wonder when I started listening to a record that I just downloaded the other night, Caribou’s Andorra.
I was halted in my tracks, breathless.

And not just those comfy thermals you can wear underneath your favorite ratty t-shirt to keep warm this time of year, either. I’m talking about the band The Thermals, who played their final show of 2007 on their home turf here in Portland last night at a teeny-tiny little venue called Backspace.
It was a free, [...]

Like I mentioned in my last album review, Radiohead - In Rainbows, I owe much of my current taste in music to my friends. We all have people in our lives that introduce us to bands and music. My dad introduced me to such disparate artists as Jimi Hendrix and Hank Williams Sr. My grandmother [...]

In case you didn’t know, The Thermals are a band from right here in Portland, Oregon. All the kids are listening to them. Well, all the cool kids, at least. They have a new music video out for their song “Returning to the Fold,” one of the stellar tracks off the stellar 2006 album, The [...]

To continue the countdown of my Top Ten Albums of 2007, let’s talk about Radiohead’s In Rainbows…
My first real introduction to Radiohead, aside from being bombarded with the music video for “Creep” every time I turned on MTV in the mid-90’s, was two burnt CD’s a friend of mine handed me during my sophomore year [...]

To kick off the Top Ten Albums of 2007 Countdown (gotta shorten that name…) in style, let’s start with a seriously stylish and stylized band, Spoon, and their latest album, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga.
Just so we’re all on the same page, my plan is to post my reviews of each of the 10 albums [...]

Does it say way too much about how mind-blowingly pathetic and desperate I am as a human being when I say that this is quite possibly the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life?

If you were wondering, the answer is yes. Yes, it most certainly does.

Just to make everyone aware, I will soon be working my way through the albums that I consider to be the Ten Best of 2007, right here on Sod.
I challenge the other writer (writers?) to come up with their own lists before the end of the year, so that we can argue and bicker about [...]