Baroness Yellow and Green Album Review

*New Baroness release “Yellow and Green” adds elements of 90’s alternative rock  to their sludge metal sound [rating=4]   If you’ve read my blog for a while now, you know that  I think most modern music sucks, and lament the lack of heavy rock with a bit of melody. It’s either anemic pop or cookie […]

The End of the Album, and are we bothered enough to care?

This past Christmas I got 2 gifts that were at the top of my Amazon wish list: The landmark albums by The Smashing Pumpkins, Gish and Siamese Dream, in their remastered deluxe edition formats. Upon opening the box sets, looking at all the postcard style images from the original album art, the lengthy liner notes, […]