Aboot
Swashbuckling, Atlanta-area, Technology Account Manager. I brew beer, play drums, and try not to under-achieve. I have people skills.
New Releases – February 21, 2012
As I noted late last year, I was way late to come across the The Menzingers. They released an album in 2010 called Chamberlain Waits that I found to be extremely enjoyable. Well, lucky for me to have discovered them so late, because they’re already back with a new record.
Read More...New Releases – February 14, 2012
This week is about one release: The self-titled debut LP from Classics of Love.
Read More...New Releases – February 7, 2012
I will have you know I listened to 16 new releases this week. I won’t go so far as to say they were all terrible–Crusades, Tall Ships, and A Place To Bury Strangers all showed promise–but, as with the past few weeks, it’s been thin out there. There was, however, one highlight: Dr. Dog.
Read More...New Releases – January 31, 2012
Keeping up with this project, albeit barely. I’ve discovered that an ounce of preparation is going to be a major key to success. So I’ll start that next week. Or the week after.
Read More...New Releases – January 24, 2012
I missed last week’s new release update because I was on the road all week, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t paying attention. YOU’RE IN GOOD HANDS. Maybe until the end of Q1.
Read More...New Releases – January 18, 2012
New Releases for the week of January 16, 2012: theHELL, And So I Watch You From Afar
Read More...New Release – January 11, 2012
A new release for the week of January 9th, 2012: The Maccebees – Pelican
Read More...2011: Music I Listened To
Oh, is it that time of year again? The time just before the end of the year when everyone else’s Best Of lists have been published for weeks, thereby allowing me to peruse them and cobble together my own Best Of list based on everyone else’s editorial efforts, making it look like I spent the whole year researching and contemplating new music? Haha, just kidding! Mostly.
Read More...Chasm. Youth. Wider.
As the chasm between me and my youth creeps ever wider, I find myself observing the behavior of younger folks less like we\’re distant peers and more like I\’m a miserly old researcher in a frayed lab coat with a salt and pepper combover. Many many months ago, the Geester and I attended a birthday [...]
Read More...NoMeansAnomaly
Yeah yeah yeah. Shut it. I would promise that my updates will be more frequent than once a month, but as soon as I do, two months will charge by and I will have broken a promise, so … The Bulldogs of Georgia lost to the Volunteers of Tennessee on Saturday after they forgot that [...]
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