10 Watchglass – “Eons Romance” Sydney, Australia’s Watchglass channel a seriously tranquil vibe here for some summer folk-pop that will penetrate your world with ease. .. 9 Saloli – “Nighthawk” Bandcamp lists Mary Sutton, a.k.a. Saloli, as a “pianist,” which is funny because I don’t hear a single analog sound on this whole album, let … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks Apr. – June 2023”
Am I an a-hole for not wanting to purchase Mermaid Avenue on wax? Well, I’ve never heard anyone playing any of the songs other than “California Stars” in my life, so I’m not sweating it too much. Anyway, it’s high time this band released a best-of and gave us a smattering of their most brilliant, … Read more“A Call for a ‘The Best of Wilco’ on Vinyl with ‘California Stars’ on it”
10 Can Kicker – “Disassociate Now” The UK’s Can Kicker belt out intense, crisp grunge rock, in the old school vein of the punk-mindeds like The U-Men and Mudhoney, with tight grooves underlying the stylishly nihilistic vocals of the singer who just goes by the name “Luke.” ST LP will call to mind Iceage’s authoritative … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks Jan. – Mar. 2023”
Pop-punk is making a comeback. That’s all there is to it. Well, what’s actually happening is just that the stigma is being lifted off of it — listening to it no longer garners implications of simplicity, stupidity or shallowness. I think we all deal with enough morons in our everyday lives to diffuse that ideal … Read more“Dolby’s Top 25 Pop-Punk Albums of All Time”
Someday my ideal record player will arrive at my doorstep, I know it. It will cost under $150, have built-in speakers (I mean I don’t need to broadcast across the Grand Canyon, for Christ’s nuts) and won’t break right after I drop $90 at our local record store on vinyl. Until then, all I have … Read more“10 Vinyl Records I Want for Christmas”
In October or so of 2021 I had a really disillusioning thing happen. I switched from Word Press analytics, which had saying I’d been getting 30,000 page views a day or something like that, to Google, which slotted the number somewhere close to the 20 to 30 mark. My hopes of becoming rich off my … Read more“Dolby’s Top 50 Albums of 2022”
10 Parano – “Come Right through – Original Mix” This Parano DJ certainly keeps a pretty low profile but does stake his claim to a pretty groovin’ brand of jungle-house, full of some pretty off-kilter sounds and a voluminous mass of hypnotic techno bulbous enough to let the drugs kick in. .. 9 The Koreatown … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks July – Sep. 2022”
10 Led Zeppelin – “How Many More Times” With this tune that closes Led Zeppelin’s self-titled debut, part of the essence of this list is poised to value a riff’s overall function, like how spiritedly it’s embraced by the song itself. In this case, Page repeats this thing on pretty much the whole bumpy ride, … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Guitar Riffs of All Time”
10 Gilad Hekselman – “Magic Chord” feat. Eric Harland Everything about the production on Far Star, the new album by Brooklyn jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman, breathes fiery life into the listener’s ears. The drums, though played softly and heavily on the cymbals, are clear and robustly loud, with Hekselman’s chosen instrument of guitar within jazz … Read more“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks Apr. – June 2022”
100 Grateful Dead – “Man Smart, Woman Smarter” (Download Series Vol. 9: Live at Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA / April 2, 1989) Wikipedia has “Man Smart (Woman Smarter)” slotted as a “calypso song… variously credited as being composed by Norman Span… D.L. Miller, F. Kuhn, and Charles Harris,” with Span being who “first recorded the … Read more“Dolby’s Top 100 Jam-Rock Tracks of All Time”