"My friend Jenn (who is the beer connoisseur of all beer connoisseurs) comes over to my desk this afternoon giddy as all hell and informs me that today marks the 75th anniversary of the end of prohibition. Now keep in mind that she’s so super stoked about telling me this..."

"There are a number of good releases slated for Sept. 25th but here are a just a few I am most excited about:Bettye LaVette with Drive-By-Truckers - Scene of the Crime. Recorded at the vaunted Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The combination of Lavette's soul and the Truckers' grit..."

"White Whale hail from landlocked Kansas, but that doesn't stop the high seas imagery that they've fashioned around themselves from flowing willfully through them. Throughout the near fifty minutes of their debut album WW1 they craft stories of wayward admirality, high seas travel, seamanship and an air of the absurdity..."