Sound Obsession

Welcome to Part 8 of my “100 Favorite Albums of the 1990’s” list! This part covers the spring of '97 through early fall of '97 - part of my final semester of high school through part of my first semester of college, and the summer in between. Really fun times, and probably the most musically diverse and intense six months of my life. During this time, I saw so many great bands, artists, and DJs perform live - among them, Sneaker Pimps, Radiohead, and Aphex Twin at the 9:30 Club; The Prodigy, Beck, and Jamiroquai headlining HFStival at RFK Stadium; Jamiroquai again at JMU's Patriot Center; Wu-Tang Clan and Rage Against the Machine at Merriweather Post Pavilion; Foo Fighters in the parking lot of Tower Records in Rockville, MD; Josh Wink, LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad, and Rabbit in the Moon at my first rave, Ultraworld Ritual, at the DC Armory; and countless DJs at Buzz, the weekly rave night at DC's Capital Ballroom (later, Nation). When I got to college in Central PA tha...

Welcome back to my “100 Favorite Albums of the 1990’s” list! I didn’t think it’d take me five years to get to Part 4, but here we are. As a reminder, this 100-album list is broken into ten parts comprised of ten albums apiece, ordered by release date. Some parts might represent one year's worth of music, others might represent several years. Two rules still apply - First, I must have acquired the album in the year of its original release, inclusive of a retroactive four months into the previous year (corresponding with a fall school semester). Second, each album must have made a real impact on me in the timeframe of its initial release. Part 4 covers the time between the fall of 1994 and the fall of 1995 - the entirety of my sophomore year and fall semester of my junior year of high school. At this point, I was beginning to step away from American alt-rock and grunge and moving onto electronic music, Britpop, and falling deep into hip-hop music . . . At first, it was the popular G-...

These are my runners up and honorable mention albums of 2023, in alphabetical order by artist name . . . . Vincent Neil Emerson:   The Golden Crystal Kingdom   (La Honda - 11/10/23)    Foo Fighters:   But Here We Are     (Roswell - 6/2/23)    Adam Hood:   Adam Hood's Different Groove     (Southern Songs - 9/22/23)    Gabe Lee:   Drink The River     (Torrez Music Group - 7/14/23)    Royal Blood:  B ack To The Water Below     (Warner - 9/1/23)      Sci-Clone:   Radio Therapy     (Metalheadz - 5/19/23)    Chris Stapleto...

Wolf Alice, 9:30 Club, Washington DC - 12/8/17 Wolf Alice, 9:30 Club, Washington DC - 12/8/17 Wolf Alice, 9:30 Club, Washington DC - 12/8/17 Queens of The Stone Age, The Anthem, Washington DC - 10/20/17 Queens of The Stone Age, The Anthem, Washington DC - 10/20/17 Queens of The Stone Age, The Anthem, Washington DC - 10/20/17 Foo Fighters, The Anthem, Washington DC - 10/12/17 Broken Social Scene, 9:30 Club, Washington DC - 9/19/17 Swervedriver, The Black Cat, Washington DC - 9/12/17 Mark Lanegan Band, Rock & Roll Hotel, Washington DC - 8/16/17

Kurt Vile & The Violators, 930 Club, Washington DC - 10/8/15 Sturgill Simpson, Lincoln Theater, Washington DC - 9/23/15 Ghost, The Fillmore, Silver Spring MD - 9/22/15 Ghost, The Fillmore, Silver Spring MD - 9/22/15 Ghost, The Fillmore, Silver Spring MD - 9/22/15 Ghost, The Fillmore, Silver Spring MD - 9/22/15 Ghost, The Fillmore, Silver Spring MD - 9/22/15 Ghost, The Fillmore, Silver Spring MD - 9/22/15 Eagles of Death Metal, 930 Club, Washington DC - 9/15/15 Eagles of Death Metal, 930 Club, Washington DC - 9/15/15 Chelsea Wolfe, U Street Music Hall, Washington DC - 9/11/15 High on Fire, Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore MD - 8/20/15 Pallbearer, Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore MD - 8/20/15 Lucifer, Baltimore Soundstage, Baltimore MD - 8/20/15 Failure, 930 Club, Washington DC - 8/11/15 Hum, 930 Club, Washington DC - 8/11/15 Deftones, The Fillmore, Silver Spring MD - 7/31/15 Black B...