My mix of the month (not on CD) for tonight's long-awaited November meetup is You Don't Say. This one's a collection entirely composed of instrumental tracks.  read

My CD mix of the month for tonight's February meetup is A Hip-Hop Primer, with A Hip-Hop Companion thrown in as a bonus. The first is a mix I put together to provide a friend's teenage son with an intro...  read

My CD mix of the month for January is Struts & Frets. It's a (mostly) instrumental collection of many tasty and virtuosic varieties of (mostly) acoustic guitar music.  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 10: Hot Thoughts (2017) True believers, we have nearly reached the end. Our final exhibit of the immersion is HOT THOUGHTS, released just over a month ago. HOT THOUGHTS debuted at #17 on the Billboard 200 on...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 9: They Want My Soul (2014) It might be glib to say that Britt Daniel’s time with Divine Fits reinvigorated his Spoon, but it undeniably altered the band’s trajectory. After all, when Britt returned his focus to...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 8: A Thing Called Divine Fits (Divine Fits, 2012) (You might argue that a side project like Divine Fits does not deserve its own full day in an immersion, but I think it’s an indispensible step in...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 7: Transference (2010) After the skewed pop wonderland that was GA GA GA GA GA, Spoon confounded expectations by delivering a followup album that was half slick, half lo-fi, and entirely unsettling. (If you hear a song...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 6: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007) With GA GA GA GA GA, Spoon renewed its attempts on the pop charts with a vengeance. This album is almost aggressively toe-tapping, and quite disarming throughout. It began to...  read

Happy 46th birthday to Britt Daniel! Facebook: Spoon Day 5: Gimme Fiction (2005) Having burned their sound down on KILL THE MOONLIGHT, Spoon sets about building it back up on GIMME FICTION. This album takes us to some ruminative and...  read

Facebook: Spoon Day 4: Kill the Moonlight (2002) “Small stakes give you the blues, but you don’t feel taken, don’t think you’ve been used.” With that opening salvo, Britt Daniel announces in his sly way that, while there may be...  read