Major Letdowns

Major Letdowns: Blue Öyster Cult, "Imaginos"

One of the wildest forgotten flops of the '80s

Let's Get Soft

Fuck It, Let's Get Soft

Ready to take a hard look at some easy listening?

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 1/16/26

All the world will be your New Music, O Prince with a Thousand Fridays

Link Digest

Link Digest: 1/16/26

Some great recent stuff from around the web

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 1/9/26

Let us have the New Music of Friday, and above all let us never despair

Music

Thanks, Amy

Today I must write about Amy Grant

Captain Video

CAPTAIN VIDEO!: Marie Osmond, "There's No Stopping Your Heart"

Who needs Donny when you've got hits like these?

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: Barbra Streisand, "The Barbra Streisand Album"

Fixing musical blind spots, one album at a time

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Mellowmas

Mellowmas 2025

Surprise!

Music

2025 Christmas Video Mixtape!

Holiday greetings from the one and only VJ Big Suit

Music

New Albums I Loved in 2025

Some happy discoveries from another year of listening

Song Recommendations

Song Recommendations: 12/18/25

Some recent releases I would like to share with you

Link Digest

Link Digest: 12/17/25

Many articles that deserve your eyeballs

Music

Luminescent Creatures and Soft Art

Is there such a thing as too soft and pretty?

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 12/12/25

"And now," cried Max, "let the New Music Friday start!"

Link Digest

Link Digest: 12/9/25

The best stuff that's come through my RSS lately

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 12/5/25

Be worthy of New Music and Friday will come

The One After the One-Hit Wonder

The One After the One-Hit Wonder, Part 8

Top 40 success can be so fleeting. Just ask these artists

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 11/28/25

The whole mad swirl of New Music that was to come began Friday

What Were We Renting?

What Were We Renting? 11/28/85

Be kind, rewind

Community

Link Digest: 11/25/25

The best my RSS feed has had to offer in recent weeks

The Nielsens

The Nielsens: November 11-17, 1985

What we were (and weren't) watching 40 years ago

New Music Friday

New Music Friday: 11/21/25

I love the smell of New Music in the Friday

Cultural Consumption

The Sensitive Kind

Let's just say that I am obsessed with the truth

Blindspotting

Blindspotting: The Manhattan Transfer, "Vocalese"

Fixing musical blind spots, one four-part harmony at a time