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FLOOD’s Best Albums of 2024 and My Two Cents

Posted in Album Reviews, Lists, Reviews with tags , , , , , on 12/10/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

FLOOD recently released its list of the top 50 albums that the outlet’s contributors determined mattered most in 2024. Expect it, once again, to be regarded as one of the more authoritative and reputed chronicles of the year in music.

What follows are my reviews of releases on the list, and a related interview to boot, that FLOOD published this year:

Nick Cave and the Bad SeedsWild God review (published 12.10, FLOOD)
• Kim Deal‘s Nobody Loves You More review (published 12.2, FLOOD)
• Touché Amoré‘s Spiral in a Straight Line review (published 10.11, FLOOD)
• Sleater-Kinney‘s A Little Rope Goes a Very Long Way feature (published 4.10, FLOOD)
• Brittany Howard‘s What Now review (published 2.9, FLOOD)

Infinite thanks for your support, and that of my invaluable editors at FLOOD and other outlets that tolerated my contributions, in 2024. It mattered this year more than ever before.

For my pre-2024 writings on the aforementioned artists and many more than appeared on other top 10 lists this year, go to my Interview Index and Reviews Archive.

Lastly, stay tuned for The Bad Penny‘s annual Top 10 Albums of the Year list for 2024. (That is, if you place any value in rundowns like those.)

Sleater-Kinney Talk ‘Recommitting’ To Band After Restful Hiatus

Posted in Interviews with tags , , on 04/15/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

It’s been a minute since I spoke with two musicians less enthusiastic about participating in an interview, but Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein nevertheless shared some insights on their new record and the state of their band for my new FLOOD feature.

2024 New Releases Calendar

Posted in Latest New Releases Schedule, New Releases with tags , , , , , , , , , on 12/31/2023 by Kurt Orzeck

Excited 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)

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Quasi’s Sam Coomes In ’01: ‘There Isn’t Any Point In Us Rushing’ Albums

Posted in Interviews with tags , , , , on 01/11/2010 by Kurt Orzeck

Way back on October 4, 2001 – with the horror of 9/11 still damp in everyone’s minds – Quasi’s Sam Coomes took a few to talk with me about his band’s then-new album, The Sword of God.

“There isn’t any point in us rushing to get albums out quickly anymore,” he confessed at the time. Continue reading

Quasi’s Sam Coomes Transcript, 10.4.01: ‘I’d Still Play Music Even [If] Nobody Cared’

Posted in Interview Transcripts, Interviews with tags , , , on 01/11/2010 by Kurt Orzeck

As I noted after chatting with Quasi’s Sam Coomes on October 4, 2001, “It’s impossible to do an interview these days and not have at least of it consist of war talk.” Continue reading