Lee Hazlewood

The 10 Best Record Store Day Black Friday Releases

We’re generally skeptical about the consumerist crapfest that is Black Friday — spend Thursday giving thanks for everything you do have, and wake up early the day after to throw elbows like crazy at your fellow shoppers to spend a shitload of cash on everything you don’t have — but if there’s one thing we do like buying, it’s music. Happily, Black Friday does tend to bring a decent amount of music-related specials, mostly via the folks at Record Store Day. As such, we’ve dutifully thumbed through this year’s list of special releases to sort the proverbial wheat from the chaff, and shared our shopping list after the jump. What’s caught your fancy this year? … Read More

10 Tribute Albums That Are Actually Worth Your Time

Like the charity album, the tribute album is fraught with danger — they’re a lovely idea in principle, but often the results are at best underwhelming and at worst hilariously bad. Still, they don’t have to be that way, and with tribute albums in the news a bit of late — there’s Joe Jackson’s Duke Ellington record, which is out this week, along with news of an upcoming Fleetwood Mac tribute, we thought we’d take the opportunity to round up some of the worthiest examples of the genre. Your suggestions are, as ever, more than welcome. … Read More