[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Don’t let their San Francisco roots fool you. The Flamin’ Groovies are no flower power band – they are raw power, more in line with the early 70s’ proto-punk Detroit scene. Even as early as their 1970 sophomore [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Blue Cheer are perhaps the best of the forgotten 60s power trios. They only really had one great album (which makes them perfect for this column), but that album did nearly as much for the evolution of [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
R&B and soul music has an interesting and rather unique tradition compared to other pop subgenres in that reinterpretations of older songs is not only accepted, it is expected, and can even substitute new material. A rock [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Not all influential bands holds up to the test of time. King Crimson is one of those bands. But they are still worth mentioning here, if not for a song that spelled the birth of a whole subgenre [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Tom Waits could be the official poster boy for a column like mine, so I guess I found it a little too obvious to include one of his albums up until now. But I notice more and [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
I may be less qualified to do a writeup on H.P. Lovecraft (not the writer, but rather the band named after him) than any other Dusty Shelf entry so far, but that is because it is nearly [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
I can honestly say without a shred of doubt that there never was, is not now, and never will be another band like the Butthole Surfers. What the hell were they? Some saw them as avant-garde pioneers, [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
Maybe not overlooked so much but certainly underrated, 2000’s Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia is blossoming into a classic album before our very eyes. The first half of this baker’s dozen of songs, in particular, was destined for [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
No, this is not a joke, and those of you who grew up with the show Pete & Pete already take this write-up as seriously as I do (maybe). Polaris was a one-album band made up of [...]
[The Dusty Shelf is a weekly column that showcases a tragically overlooked album from the music snob's library.]
The guitar virtuoso is a paradoxical figure in a way. On one hand, he has conquered an instrument that we take for granted in nearly all our popular music. He has achieved something head and shoulders [...]
