Tag Archives: Sparks

Records Reissues at Random Vol. 62 - Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth

A couple weekends ago I dumped a bunch of albums on my best friend and housemate m. Cody’s iPod. A lot of them were records I recommended that she wanted to give a whirl. But a few of them were requests, mostly records she owned on tape or CD, some of which had […]

Alex Ain’t Tom’s Son and Boris Ain’t From the “Yay Area”

No more than a couple weeks ago, in a post about mythologically-monikered LA-based producer Daedelus, I mentioned my life-long love of myth, fantasy and comic books. As an extension of my appreciation of those three things (coupled with the fact that I grew up in a house full of wanna-be artists) I developed a […]

Not to Be Confused With the Young Black Teenagers

In the movie business Summertime is the season for sequels. The past two weeks have borne that out as sequels, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army and The Dark Knight, dominated the box-office. But more and more it seems like the music industry has latched on to this practice too, because it feels like […]

Records MP3’s at Random Vol. 57 - Sparks No. 1 In Heaven

Does Records at Random look a little weird to you today? Well, if it does it’s ’cause I kinda got thrown a curveball this morning. As usual, I rolled out of bed, grabbed a stack of records and walked them over to the desk where my computer and record player sit. I […]