Articles by David M. Snyder

This record showed up in my mailbox two days after I watched the first round of Bush vs. Kerry. And as I’ve repeatedly noted, I mostly live a life of isolation, but I’ve heard the […]

Because of my miseries this LP is another that has sat around here for a good long while. Enough time for a US CD release (via Dead Beat) to also show up. This is another […]

A good while back Sundazed hit a spurt of albums by bands that never had one in their time. They gathered material from label vaults and semi-forgotten closests. These two acts each had only one […]

In the grand tradition of the Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders cut price samplers Parasol has been doing this series of cheap label samplers on a sort of semi-annual basis. If you take inflation into account at […]

Another record that has sat here for the better part of a year while I try to get back to my usually mundane life. While the start of the Fall were the loveliest days we’ve […]

It’s been half a decade since Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow and Kim Shattuck seems to have matured a bit (though I’d say it’s even odds that you’ll still get a flash of panties or two […]

While there has been some cool stuff in his Girlfriend-and-after period (I won’t go into the earlier synth/digital epoch), my general view of Mr. Sweet has been that he’ll take a good 2’ 30” tune […]

This is a curious package. Capitol passed on the last two albums, which were picked up by Island. Yet here they are again. The band has placed ten singles in the Top 20 in the […]