No one can turn a bummer into a fun time quite like Grandaddy, as they prove again with a softly breathtaking new album. Read my FLOOD review here.
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Grandaddy’s ‘Blu Wav’: Two Cent Review
Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags Grandaddy on 02/16/2024 by Kurt Orzeck2024 New Releases Calendar
Posted in Latest New Releases Schedule, New Releases with tags Children's Hour, Cock Sparrer, Escuela Grind, Eye Flys, Grandaddy, Hulder, J Mascis, Jesus and Mary Chain, Mary Timony, Sleater-Kinney on 12/31/2023 by Kurt OrzeckExcited about the new year? Dreading it? Either way, a litany of new releases confirmed for 2024 should delight you at least a little bit. Pay extra attention to the entries in bold — those are the releases that The Bad Penny is most looking forward to hearing.
January 5
Babys – Live at the Bottom Line, 1979 (Omnivore)
Children’s Hour – Going Home (Drag City)
Jordsjuk – Siste Skanse single (Indie)
Kevin Burt & Big Medicine – Thank You, Brother Bill; Tribute to Bill Withers (Gulf Coast)
Morgue Terror – s/t (self-release)
Oddeven – Darkness (Eclipse)
Pile – Hot Air Balloon EP (Exploding in Sound)
Sprints – Letter to Self (City Slang)
Umbrellas – Fairweather Friend (Slumberland)
Best Albums Of 2000
Posted in Lists with tags At the Drive-In, Blonde Redhead, Bright Eyes, Broadcast, Chicks on Speed, Enon, Grandaddy, Le Tigre, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Queens of the Stone Age, Quickspace, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sweep the Leg Johnny, the Black Heart Procession, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Fucking Champs, the Murder City Devils, Unida, Yo La Tengo on 12/30/2009 by Kurt Orzeck
GOLD
1. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R (Interscope): Heavyweights in their own right, QOTSA are the closest thing we have to Nirvana right now.
2. PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (Island): If she goes on for as long and as strong as Tina Turner has, I’ll die a happy man. Continue reading
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