D.R. Baker
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D.R. Baker is a writer of fiction, music, essays, and plays. His work has appeared or is forthcoming at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Independent Music News, TheSportster, Paragraph Planet, The Open House: Telephone, Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review, and on stages in New York, New Jersey, and Ohio. Dan also creates instrumental music under the name After Lake Starfish. He lives in New York City.

From The Record Crate: Sleater-Kinney — “Dig Me Out”

Long before the triumphant No Cities to Love, before Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen teamed up to create Portlandia, before the comprehensive boxset, the Bob’s Burgers music video, and Stereogum’s dubbing them as “the best rock band to come along…

Album Review: Mastodon — “Emperor of Sand”

It’s easy to disregard an album like Mastodon’s Emperor of Sand without ever listening to it. Too quickly, one can encounter the fantastical cover art, glance through the unusual song titles (“Scorpion Breath,” for example), make a hundred assumptions about…

Album Review: Craig Finn — “We All Want The Same Things”

The chorus of The Hold Steady’s song “Killer Parties” goes, “If she says we partied, then I’m pretty sure we partied.” This could serve as something of a thesis statement for Craig Finn’s career. Once more, the Twin Cities native…

Alt-J release new single “In Cold Blood”

Ahead of their new album, Relaxer, Alt-J released the album’s second song and first official single this afternoon, on BBC Radio 1 with MistaJam. The song is titled “In Cold Blood,” and features rollicking drums and eclectic synthesizers, as well…

From the Record Crate: Linkin Park – “Hybrid Theory” (2001)

It can’t be overstated just how badly most rap metal has aged. Since its heyday in the late 90s and early 2000s, the likes of Limp Bizkit and P.O.D. all very much sound like relics of their time, better left…