So, its half way through February and I have finished 9 out of 10 reviews for my top albums of 2010.  I’m very wordy, and this sometimes holds me back from getting more ideas out.  In 2011, I will try to be more concise.  I simply like to write about music, which is a passion…

I know, I know, I can hear the detractors already.  “Kings sold out, man!”  “Kings of Leon are corporate rock!”  Those comments, along with a slew of others, were all I heard before I checked out the full album for myself.  I’m going to say that, even though I set out to not like this…

Wild Nothing will not leave me alone.  They are haunting my mind.  I cannot stop hearing “Chinatown.”  I woke up at 3am with that Johnny Marr like riff in my head!  Hints of Danny Wilson’s phrasing from “Mary’s Prayer,” loom in the verse.  My time has become absorbed with trying to pinpoint every influence.  Each…

We interrupt this program with the following news bulletin: “Buckwheat has been shot!, I repeat; Buckwheat has been shot!”  That’s what the boys at Prestige Worldwide might tell you as an attention getter.  Either that…or wreck Robert Doback’s perfectly good sailing yacht, just to bring you the summer classic, “Boats and Ho’s!” Word on the…