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Pet Sounds Participants Justin Pearson (Locust, Dead Cross) and His Dog Captain Need Your Help

Posted in Features, News, Pet Sounds with tags , , , , , , on 11/12/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

Avid readers of The Bad Penny‘s Pet Sounds series may recall that one of the earliest installments revolved around Captain, the trusty cocker spaniel of iconoclastic renaissance man and Bad Penny hero Justin Pearson. Well, we have some sad news to report: Captain is experiencing a health crisis after a treacherous run-in with a skunk resulted in a cancer diagnosis requiring surgery. If you’d like to pitch in to help Captain live for at least another year or two, donate on GoFundMe.

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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 Seeds‘ Wild 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.)

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Touché Amoré’s ‘Is Survived By: Revived’: Two Cent Review

Posted in Album Reviews, Reviews with tags on 01/22/2024 by Kurt Orzeck

Remixed and remastered, post-hardcore group Touché Amoré’s Is Survived By: Revived sounds crisper here, with a cleaner separation of sound that does far more justice to the tight performances by each band member. Read my FLOOD review here.

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