Shitake for ALL!

Rickie Lee Jones is often remembered as a one-hit wonder, and while that label is unfair, it is not entirely mysterious. Her career never became […]

Similar to Al Stewart, whom we highlighted previously, Nick Lowe has spent much of his career operating just outside the music business’s brightest spotlight. Yes, […]

Al Stewart’s classic period plays less like a conventional greatest-hits collection than a personal and historical journal discovered one page at a time. These songs […]

Mutant-FM may be one of my favorite categories because of its versatility and unpredictability. If the other playlists have clearer missions, this one works more […]

808 was the category I feared most going into this early-90s project, and not necessarily for the reasons one might expect. Hip-hop was clearly becoming […]

Wrong Wave may be my favorite category because it is built from musicians pushing the envelope and playing with sound. This is not really about […]

We probably do not need further evidence that the pop world is fickle, but if we did, the fact that only three artists made the […]

What a difference a half-decade can make. By the late 80s, the old rules of hard rock and heavy rock were already starting to wobble. […]

Well, here we are again for Round 3: the early 90s edition. And instead of losing categories, we have somehow found it necessary to expand […]