Best of 1999
The historical significance of 1999 will be remembered for a long time now. It was a cultural moment that far exceeded any other "decade closer" in the 20th century. Events like Y2K or The Matrix seemed to bri... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – August 2019
It's been one year since we first had the idea to invite a staff member to participate in this column. On this occasion (which, of course, doesn't actually mean anything beyond my brain's love for round number... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – July 2019
July! What a terrible, awful month it is for anyone who suffers from the heat like I do. Actually, I've looked back on my previous two Editors' Picks from July and I complained about the heat and the summer th... Read More...
Jazz Club Quarterly // April – June 2019
Welcome back to another installment of Jazz Quarterly! As you may have already noticed from a quick scroll, we have an eclectic list of albums touching nearly every corner of the jazz spectrum. Let’s dive in, ... Read More...
Heavy Blog’s Top 25 Albums of 2019 (So Far)
2019 is a big year in more ways than one. For starters, it's one year before the the big 2020, where our collective minds lose themselves (there's a joke on one of the album titles in here) over a round number... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – June 2019
Hello and welcome once again to “An Exercise In Which a Bunch of Music Addicts Try to Funnel Incredible Amounts of Music Into Readable Amounts of Text!” We should probably work on making the title a bit catchi... Read More...
Best of 1989
As you might recall, Heavy Blog is ten years old this year. As such, we're setting off on an adventure, each quarter exploring a different "Year 9". After looking at '79, we're now at '89, and oh boy was '89 A... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – May 2019
Ah, May! What a heady month, as Spring makes itself known in most of our circles. It’s probably my favorite time of the year to listen to music; something about the combination between the weather, the symbolo... Read More...
Death’s Door – April 2019
Welcome once more to Death’s Door. Wipe your feet on the mat and pull up a bone throne. We’ve got some quality, nasty-ass albums to cover.
I can’t shake it, though. This year just feels less substantial tha... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – April 2019
For this month’s introduction to this, our Editors’ Picks, I decided to run a little experiment by going back to the last three years of April installments and see what’s what. I had a suspicion that proved to... Read More...