These are weird times my friends. But even through the loneliest of nights or the grayest of days we still have new music being produced. I’m sure, like me, you’ve found heavy metal in all its forms to be a sort of catharsis. Below are a handful of new releases to help keep you sane … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – March 2020
It’s been awhile since we’ve sat down together and talked music. Now more than ever we need good music to fill our ears and our souls. Below are some non-metal releases from the first couple months of this bizarre year that are worthy of as much time as you are willing to dedicate to them. … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – March 2020
Every year on The Metal Dad Radio Show we do a two-episode round-up of our Top 20 Metal Albums of the Year. It’s nothing more than one man’s favorite records, but we have a ton of fun with the shows and the countdown over the course of two weeks probably gives us more joy than … More Top 40 Metal Albums of 2019: #40-21
We are winding down this exercise and I hope for those of you who read along it was as enjoyable as it was for me. I really had a long, wonderful stroll down memory lane and got to revisit some of my absolute favorite records in the process. Each one of these posts has consistently … More A Decade of CT Music: 2018
2017 was a crazy year, filled with some indelible memories that I’ll cherish forever. Not the least of which was seeing my first two books published in February and April of that year. (Plus my beloved Philadelphia Eagles would finally win a Super Bowl following the 2017 season.) 2017 was also another banner year in … More A Decade of CT Music: 2017
Another year, another grouping of stellar albums. 2016 was only three years ago, yet for some reason it seems like a decade ago. When I was putting these albums together I was shocked by how many of them were released in 2016. I could have sworn most of these records were released long before. 2016 … More A Decade of CT Music: 2016
We’ve crossed the halfway point to this exercise and so far I think the one thing that’s been hammered home for me is that it’s nearly impossible to truly bookmark every great release by Connecticut bands. 2015 was another exceptional year with a handful of amazing debuts, and follow-up albums that exceeded their predecessors. It … More A Decade of CT Music: 2015
We continue on with our multi-part series examining Connecticut music and highlighting some of my favorite albums. This time around we crack open 2014. 2014 was a huge year for me personally. I left the Courant to take a job at the then Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce and later that October I booked my first … More A Decade of CT Music: 2014
The original idea for this crazy project was to turn it into a book. I quickly realized that was going to be way more work than I wanted to take on right now so instead you’re stuck with this 10-part blog post. There are two records in particular that popped into my head one day … More A Decade of CT Music: 2013
There are storytellers, and there are artists who paint vivid pictures with words and music. There are artists willing to look inward, and there are those willing to bare it all, exposing raw, vulnerable soul to the world around them. There are artists who can make you feel, and those that make you melt within … More Broads – Stay Connected
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