The Ocean, hailing from Germany, just released their third and latest single, “Pleistocene” and as usual, the band never disappoints. Their new album “Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic” releases next Friday (September 25th) and if it turns out even half as good as “Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic” from 2018, we’re in for a treat. I love
Some details came out in Kanye’s contract dump, and it appears that Jay Z traded the masters to Kanye’s first 6 albums to Def Jam AKA Universal in exchange for his own. Now this is contentious, because Def Jam is almost definitely never going to sell these to Kanye. I’m basically the biggest Kanye fan
FKA Twigs and Hiro Murai hit it out of the park on this one, hell yeah. Admittedly I’m not a big music video guy but I am a medium-level swordfight guy, and this succeeded in both categories. Here is a deeper look at both categories. Some great swordfights in history: And the undisputed best sword
Hello and welcome! Alright, here we are for Tuesday Time Machine Week 3, featuring my monthly playlist from September of 2016. For those of you who are checking in for the first time, these monthly playlists that I’m re-visiting came about as a result of an idea I had back in January of 2010: an
Shoutout to JPGChief for this one. This album is dope, an instant favorite of the year. It’s very angry and loud while also being smart and thoughtful. One of those albums where the raw emotion bores through your exterior and defines the listening experience on a more personal level. From their Bandcamp: Exhalants began in
This week’s column focuses on Mastodon‘s new track and music video, “Fallen Torches”, which is featured on their compilation album, “Medium Rarities”, just released today. I’ve been a fan of Mastodon since I discovered them in 2004 with their masterpiece, “Leviathan”. They’ve been releasing consistently great albums since then and have a new studio album
It’s been a while. I’ve missed you. I won’t leave again. Now let’s listen to a breakup song: Welcome to Woolite radio. Your home of the softest jams this side of the Mississippi. Your captain on this sound voyage is none other than I, Captain Sultry Daw. This ride will not be bumpy. So, sit
When I first heard this song I absolutely lost it, immediate SOTY contender for me. But it was recently brought to my attention that it is not as immediately gratifying as I thought to everyone, as my repeated attempts to get the boys on board this weekend came up short. So I never would have
Hello and welcome! Alright, here we are for Tuesday Time Machine Week 2, featuring my monthly playlist from September of 2014. For those of you who followed my column in which I was doing full album reviews, thank you. I appreciate you. Unfortunately, due to the time constraints of the freelancer’s life, I’m not going
Even though the hate mail and death threats from Indie Pong’s meticulous and unforgiving fanbase continue to pour in, this is not my post highlighting best new songs, even though there are many. You can follow those here though on our playlist and I’ll get around to summarizing it eventually but not now because what
