Shitake for ALL!

In between compiling playlists for the half-decades, I will occasionally pause to rank and highlight the work of selected musicians whose catalogs deserve a closer […]

Mutant-FM 80–84 is the playlist for songs that refused to sit neatly inside the other four categories. They are not old-guard survivors like Fossil Fuel, […]

The “wrong” in Wrong Wave is not meant as an insult. These songs are not bad, broken, or objectionable. They are wrong in the way […]

Up to this point in the 1980–1984 playlists, female artists have been almost completely absent, which says plenty about the lanes rock history tends to […]

Van Halen feel like the elder statesmen of this playlist, which is slightly ridiculous considering they only debuted in 1978. But in early-80s hard rock […]

I graduated high school in 1980, which means I was not the only relic being pushed into a new era. While I was trying to […]