In Case You Missed It: You Can Stream The New Ryan Adams Album (That Isn’t His Upcoming Self-Titled Release)

Devoted Ryan Adams fans know that the alt-country musician’s true music love isn’t the country-rock that made him famous (apparently he hates all country music not associated with the Grateful Dead). Instead, Adams loves noisy hardcore punk rock via Husker Du, The Replacements, and so on. He’s even recorded a sci-fi metal concept album and produced a hardcore Fall Out Boy EP (no, that’s not a typo).

So it wasn’t too surprising when earlier this year Adams released the vinyl-only 1984, which is 10 tracks and 30 minutes of blustering hardcore yet melodic punk. What is surprising, however, is that now the rest of us can hear the album below. It’s a treat for fans, a surprise for newcomers, and proof of this man’s mad genius.

Playlist: Zach Braff’s iPod

This new playlist combines many of the songs from the Garden State and Scrubs soundtracks in addition to some other songs that I think match Braff’s great range of taste in music. There are also some songs on here from his new movie Wish I Was Here released in limited release July 18th.

 

20 Songs For July 2013 (Via Spotify)

July was a very busy month for me, but I still managed to distract myself by listening to a lot of music throughout my summer school finals (very hard to do right?).

This month’s playlist includes a special 4th of July song from Bruce Springsteen, deep cuts from The Replacements and Stones, and I finally get around to listening to Songs: Ohia and The Microphones.

Here are my 20 songs for July 2013.

Extra! Extra!: The Replacements Announce Reunion Shows (And Nostalgic Indie-Rock Fans Weep For Joy)

The Replacements, one of the most celebrated indie-rock bands of all time (and one of my favorite bands), have announced that they are reuniting at Chicago’s Riot Fest along with two shows in Denver and Toronto.

Uh…..

The above picture was my, along with every young and old hipster’s, reaction to the news.

This is huge.

Now my inner fan boy wants to ramble on about how incredible and meaningful this reunion will be for a lot of people, but I’ll save you the long reading. Exaggerations aside, it’s fair to say that a lot of modern bands are playing music now because when they were first starting out they were probably listening to The Replacements.

Now keep in mind that these guys haven’t played with each other since their infamous final show back in Chicago on the Fourth of July in 1991 and that this band was notorious for being either the greatest or worst band live (depending on their states of mind). Also, this band has been glorified over the years by a lot of people who were probably in elementary school when the band broke up. But even if the shows aren’t that great, this is still a huge moment for indie-rock fans everywhere.

For the full details on the shows, click here. And in the meantime, do yourself a favor and listen to some Replacements, preferably Let It Be and Tim.

Playlist: 20 Songs From May 2013 (Via Spotify)

In May we said goodbye to a legend from the 60s, we all listened to new albums from Daft Punk, The National and Vampire Weekend (and they were all good!), and I listened to a lot of Brit-Pop (more specifically I listened to a lot of music from the Brit-Pop era).

Here are my 20 songs from May 2013.