Do you know about the link between Missoula and Nirvana? It’s actually not even through multiple degrees of separation that Montana’s coolest city played a vital role in the rock trio’s third and final studio release, 1993’s In Utero. In fact, if you consider the hands-on role Hellgate grad Steve Albini played in recording and […]
Vinally Friday – 10/5
This week on the Trail turntable: • Craig will continue his four-part celebration of Bruce Springsteen‘s birthday with more from the Live/1975-85 box set. In addition to turning 69, the Boss also celebrated this week the first anniversary of his “Springsteen on Broadway” show in Las Vegas. He also made a surprise appearance last weekend […]
Vinally Friday, 9/28
This week on the Trail turntable: • Craig will continue his month-long exploration of Bruce Springsteen‘s five-disc live box set, Live/1975-85. The set marked the first live album in a decade to top the charts after its release in 1986; ultimately it went platinum 13 times over. It remains the second best-selling live album in […]
Vinally Friday – 9/21
There’s lots of fun trivia about what’s arguably the greatest rock album of this millennium – most notably the legend of its initial rejection by label execs, a subsidiary of which released it in full the very next year. But most critics will tell you what makes Wilco‘s fourth studio release, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, so […]
Vinally Friday – 9/14
Somewhere between the death of Ziggy Stardust and the birth of The Thin White Duke lies one of David Bowie’s more misunderstood albums. Yeah, so the Ziggy persona wasn’t really entirely absent from the English rocker’s eighth studio release, 1974’s Diamond Dogs. But it was clear glam rock was, and with the first album in […]
Vinally Friday – 12/1
Why is it the most passionate music seems to emanate from fingertips and lips of the dying? We saw it with Warren Zevon’s Grammy-winning final album, The Wind, released just two weeks before he succumbed to mesothelioma in 2003 and again last year with David Bowie’s multi-Grammy-winning Black Star, which dropped just two days before […]
Vinally Friday – 1/27
Fans of The Shins have a lot to be excited about. Not only is the Portland-based band slated to release its first album in five years this spring, but earlier this week it was announced they will co-headline this year’s Sasquatch! Music Festival. But the best news of all? Tommy is giving The Shins some […]
