Single Leaf Productions and Magicians International is proud to present the debut album from Boogie johnson, I Cannot Cry Enough Tears to Convince Myself That I'm Not Empty. Boogie Johnson is the collaboration between experimental filmmaker and yelping mongrel Peter Barlow and the half man/half robot killing machine known as Sean Ronan. You may remember him as the sole proprietor of the invincible robot brigade.

The album consists of only one track, Empty Sessions, which is 31 minutes in length. It was created in a whirlwind dirge one night in a garage with a dizzying array of…

This is the new list of my all time faves. It is only 40 because these are the only albums I categorize as being the most important to me, or that I find really really good. Personal, subjective, not for everyone, etc. Funny to watch the evolution of tastes. My tag hey album I fucking love you was supposed to do this for me but going through it I didn't think that highly of many of them anymore, but I'll leave it to look back on later. Who knows, if you like some of my list, try the others, you…

I’ve been going to quite a few shows lately, which has been not only a good time but has also shaped my view of musicians and, I guess, music as a whole. It’s kind of a cumulative thing, but it mainly had to do with my meeting Phil Elverum. I guess I’ll just briefly break down the shows and its highlights for me.

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mount eerie Live

I saw Mount Eerie, basically the new moniker of the microphones, twice in one day. The first time was at a very small record shop. We walked in (my friends and I)…

notorious b.i.g.- ready to die
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Ready to Die is one of hip-hops masterworks that also happens to be its artists debut album. It is in company with enter the wu-tang (36 chambers), illmatic, and reasonable doubt. Its creator, The Notorious B.I.G., had to be literally dragged away from the drug-dealing scene to work on it. Although it rings of hyperbole on occasion, it is mainly autobiographical and firmly rooted in the gritty realities of urban poverty. The album takes a certain headspace—the up and coming hustler trying to transcend the ghetto— and crystallizes it into…

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Radiohead- in rainbows

The amount of anticipation I’d managed to drum up in the span of the mere 10 days from the day it was announced Radiohead would be releasing a new album borders on psychotic. And all of it has not only been fulfilled but exceeded. I just finished listening to the album for the second time in a row since I got it and am starting on the third. I’m not alone in my fanaticism: no less than 10 of my neighbors were listening to Radiohead when I stopped to look at my dashboard.

I wanted…

madvillain- madvillainy

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Madvillainy is a beast of an album. It is one of the most cohesive and consistently engrossing hip hop releases I’ve heard. For those who aren’t already in the know, it’s the brainchild of the emcee mf doom and producer madlib. These two forces combined to create, what is in my opinion, a rap album that stands on the highest of hip hop tiers only in the company of a small collection of other releases: among them, de la soul is dead, ready to die, and liquid swords.

It has the sense…

r. Kelly- trapped in the closet

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Trapped in the Closet is an epic of our time. It exposes the layers of deceit and treachery that lie engrained within our culture. It looks squarely into the face of many cosmic predicaments including the search for true love, and more importantly trying to attain it, indeed if that is at all possible, and lays bare the paradox of individual versus collective morality.

It is also a deeply personal odyssey of the subconscious of one artist in that R. Kelly not only attempts to entertain, amuse, and challenge us using standard…

neutral milk hotel- in the aeroplane over the sea

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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is a one of a kind. It draws polar opposite reactions from both well rounded music buffs and the average listener. It is the one album in my short history of appreciation of music that has most shaped my views regarding music as a transformative force in the lives of its listeners.

When I first heard the album I didn't quite know what to make of it. I downloaded each individual track from limewire back before I had better connections (I've since bought…

Boredoms- super ae

Everything I read about this is always the most exalted praise. Life affirming, beautiful, primal, tribal. Yeah, but, well, just don't see it. I shake my booty a little, and then forget about it. This seems like it should be one of my favorite albums.

limp bizkit- results may vary

Just kidding!

tony conrad- joan of arc
steve reich- music for 18 musicians
terry riley- a rainbow in curved air

Okay, these three kind of go together for the experimental minimalist classics that I just can't dig. I love ambient, brian eno…

I just saw Yo La Tengo live in Detroit at City Fest a few hours ago and it was fucking amazing.

I'm going to start this review by admitting that I don't know much of their material that well. I love I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One, it's one of my favorite albums. The whole thing has this washed out, dreamy feel to it that I love.

So they come out (no opening band) and just jump into it, and do a few songs off of Heart Beating, but every song develops its own groove and totally…