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

From the Record Crate: The Strokes – “Is This It” (2001)

From the Record Crate

From the Record Crate: John Mayer – “Continuum” (2006)

From the Record Crate

From the Record Crate: Daft Punk – “Homework” (1997)

From the Record Crate: Panic! at the Disco – “Pretty. Odd.” (2008)

You couldn’t go on AIM in the year 2005 without seeing a lyric from Panic!…

From the Record Crate: Talking Heads – “Naked” (1988)

With the release of Naked, Talking Heads departed from their formulaic pop production constantly demonstrated on their…

From the Record Crate: Evanescence – Fallen (2003)

Founded by lead singer Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody in 1995 after meeting at…

From The Record Crate: The Mothers of Invention – “We’re Only In It For The Money” (1968)

“Does Humor Belong in Music?” is one of those questions that, whatever your answer might…

From the Record Crate: Radiohead – “Pablo Honey” (1993)

Radiohead is one of the most influential bands of all time. Coldplay and Machine Gun…

From the Record Crate: Styx – “Kilroy Was Here” (1983)

In the popular consciousness, this is the album that put a halt to Styx’s music…

From the Record Crate: Los Campesinos! – “Hold On Now, Youngster…” (2008)

There’s a scene in Kieron Gillen’s comic series Phonogram that has come to define Los…