From the Record Crate

From the Record Crate is about looking back. It’s about reaching into your music collection and pulling out an old favorite, or looking through dollar bins for older CDs you’ve never heard. It’s as much about obscure albums you’ve never heard as it is about albums that are constantly ranked among the all-time greatest.

From the Record Crate: Maroon 5 – “Songs About Jane” (2002)

Fifteen years later there is something about Maroon 5’s first album, Songs About Jane, that has lived…

From the Record Crate: Eric B. & Rakim – “Don’t Sweat the Technique” (1992)

It’s both fitting and hauntingly ironic how I get to talk about this Eric B.…

From the Record Crate: Roger Waters – “Radio K.A.O.S.” (1987)

After an emotional election this past November, similar to the one that occurred in the…

From the Record Crate: Paramore – “Riot!” (2007)

You couldn’t get too far in the mid-2000s without experiencing the dulcet tones of emo…

From the Record Crate: Darkthrone – “A Blaze in the Northern Sky” (1992)

In the prologue to the Spanish translation of Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind’s book Lords…

From the Record Crate: Whitney Houston – “Whitney” (1987)

When it was released on June 2, 1987, Whitney wasn’t exactly praised by the press.…

From the Record Crate: Foo Fighters – “The Colour and the Shape” (1997)

What a tragedy it would’ve been if Foo Fighters broke up before their big hit.…