Month: February 2021
The many faces of Laney McScratcherson
Laney McScratcherson is a tortoiseshell tabby cat (torbie) that I adopted from Animal House in St. Louis in late 2013. It might be more accurate…
James Jamerson: The unsung Motown bassist that influenced Paul McCartney
James Jamerson is just one of many session players in the 50s and 60s who went virtually unknown during his lifetime. Even now, after being…
Using the Display Posts plugin with WordPress and custom CSS
In case this helps anybody else, wanted to share how I created the Top 100 Albums page here on Dissociated Press. I wanted to be…
Concrete Blonde – “Happy Birthday” (song of the day)
Concrete Blonde had a lot of standout tracks on Free, but this one is timeless. “Happy Birthday” is a great song any day of the year, but…
Ikebe Shakedown delivers cinematic instrumental funk
Ikebe Shakedown is another Bandcamp discovery. The band specializes in cinematic soul, an instrumental brand of soul/funk that feels like it should be straight out…
Underground Chamber is a ride deep into the mind of Buckethead
Buckethead’s Underground Chamber is the fourth release in his “Pikes” series, and something like his 33rd studio release overall. Underground Chamber is too good to…
One from the vaults: World Destruction by Time Zone
Needed a bit of adrenaline on top of my caffeine today, pulled this one out of the vaults for a quick boost. “World Destruction” is…
té’s “Therefore, the fantasy of density fails, and the world that you see is “forgetting” tomorrow.”
If you’d enjoy some hard rock without screamy vocals (or, any, for that matter) then I have a great recommendation for you. Check out té’s…