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This was such an incredible era for Will. Listening loudly.

Death in Vegas - Dirt Dubs 10” Lots of dubby goodness behind an absolute all-timer bassline.

Orebolo - Volume 1 When someone posted that he won 400 copies of this in a storage auction, I just assumed it was a scam. After learning about the problematic former Goose member that this project is named after, the seller LOWERED the price by half. Thank you @jorblovesgear.bsky.social

The Bug Club - Mr Anyway’s Holey Spirits Perform! One Foot in Bethlehem. Almost pulled the trigger on this online so many times. Was pretty shocked to find it in Brantford Ontario of all places. Shout out to zBTFD records - absolutely worth a visit!

Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun First time listening to this and loving every second.

Goose - Cincinnati 2022.12.31 What are the odds of finding a local used copy?! It’s my lucky day. 132 more days until they hit Toronto.

Yo La Tengo - Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo I somehow never owned this collection. A great reminder of the fact that Hoboken’s hardest working band kicked (and continues to kick) a lot of ass.

Goose - Live at Madison Square Gardens 2025.06.28 The three songs featuring the horn section are wonderful. I don’t need horns in the band full time, but when they sit in for special occasions it feels magical.

Magnolia Electric Co - Black Ram

Sufjan Stevens - Javelin A tough listen, but a beautiful one.

Little Feat - Time Loves a Hero Some ballads, some experimentation and some howling. Really enjoying exploring their catalog.

Grateful Dead / John Oswald - Grayfolded I’m only through the first 12” but boy does that second side hit hard. I love that such an “out there” experiment can actually pay off.

Galaxie 500 - Live at CBGBs 1988.12.13 What a joy to have such a great sounding performance documenting this era. I wonder if Kramer captured many other unheard recordings at this quality.

My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall II. Not sure why it has taken me so long to give MMJ a chance. On paper the Will Oldham / Jason Molina leanings of Jim James should have sucked me right in but they were never on my radar. This is a really nice listen. Wasn’t expecting the first side to be so poppy

Goose - Live at MSG 2025.06.28 So glad to have the entire show available on nature’s least convenient format. Incredible performance and the audio sounds amazing. The release is a great capper to a fantastic year for the band. What a good year for Goose/Geese bands!

Goose - Chain Yer Dragon Finally received my copy 6 weeks after it was shipped. Definitely the best of their five studio LPs.

Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Hearing his music for the first time was a highlight this year. Need to find some live material next.

Billy Strings - Live Vol 1

Sqwerv - Wonder EP Fun dreamy yachty goodness. More bands need hype stickers like this one

Suicide - Surrender A solid collection of tracks across their discography. Felt like the right transition after listening to Spacemen 3.

Spacemen 3 - Threebie 3 EP Peak Spacemen drones. The perfect prescription while drafting performance reviews.

Oracle Sisters - Divinations Subdued rock/pop/folk to help our slow start on this holiday Monday.

Goose - 2025.03.11 Live After last night’s incredible second set in Detroit, tucking in with everybody’s favorite 80 minute song in the least convenient way possible.

Spacemen 3 - Recurring Admittedly my least favorite of their 4 albums, I’d forgotten how hard the back half of Sonic’s side goes. I never knew his killer line, “Your eyes. It’s a day’s work to look into them” was a Laurie Anderson nod.

Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Huge thanks to @cartwright.bsky.social for tracking down a copy of this for me. A “forever favorite” that I finally have on vinyl.

Turnstile - Never Enough Definitely not my go-to genre but there are earworms for days on this album

The Orb - Metallic Spheres in Colour w/ David Gilmour

Up early, house cleaned and chores done. Time for some Holiday Monday “itchy woo”

Goose - Everything Must Go Beautifully recorded, less guitar-forward versions of these songs compared to their live counterparts. Dustin Hoffman is excellent as is How it Ends. Was eagerly waiting for Silver Rising. Not sure how it stacks up yet.

Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavillion Listening to the artist for the first time, a friend described this as a panic attack. I generally find it pretty uplifting but I get it.

There's the famous GY!BE TRANSPHOBES EAT SHIT AND DIE ALONE speaker.

13th Floor Elevators - Live at the Houston Music Theatre ‘67 Another RSD pickup. I’m so used to Spacemen 3’s Rollercoaster that Roky’s vocals threw me for a loop. Love this.

Olivia Tremor Control: Singles & Beyond. Of all my concert regrets, skipping OTC at several Toronto stops (@ $12 a ticket) thinking “I’ll just see them next time” haunts me the most. Never ended up seeing them and missing the music of Bill and Will today.

Hanging out by the dumpster with the rest of the RSD nerds.

Microphones - Microphones in 2020. Seeing Phil for the first time in a couple of weeks so spending time with the parts of his catalog I’m not very familiar with. I kind of think it doesn’t matter as he won’t play anything I know regardless right?!

A colleague gave me an old og copy of this and I realized I had only ever listened to the first song. (Thank you for that Ye). Exploring the rest this morning

Argent - Argent (1970)

Spank Rock - Sweet Talk 12”

Grateful Dead - Without a Net Thanks to @cartwright.bsky.social for alerting me to a heck of a deal on this a few weeks back.

the 15th anniversary remaster cover for the fat of the land just adding more crabs is one of the funniest album covers I’ve ever seen. i think about it all the time

Magnolia Electric Co - Sun Session A meditative, dog-dangling rendition of Hold On Magnolia is exactly what Saturday morning needed.

Man, Kranky records is criminally underrepresented here.

Loving this Discographic app for Discogs. Charts! Thanks @slowdrives.bsky.social for posting about it.

The Microphones - Mt. Eerie A monolith of an album. I actually listened to the “The Singing from Mt. Eerie” and “The Drums from Mt. Eerie” 10” EPs before ever hearing the full length. I have a complicated appreciation for this and that probably explains it.