150 Best Albums of 2023

As the hottest year on record so far wound down to a holiday season portending what’s sure to be an even hotter and otherwise frightening on many fronts 2024, an article began making the rounds on what little social media I tune into wondering whether rock music is dead, over, kaput. In 2023, no less!…

150 Best Albums of 2016

On the Tuesday afternoon of November 8, 2016, I was cold-calling people in Wisconsin, a state an overconfident Hillary Clinton had never visited as a candidate, begging people vote for her. I should have taken that as an omen — in previous days that week, the folks at her Austin campaign headquarters had provided me…

Scooter review, 2008