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The Stills Oceans Will Rise Q-Tip The Renaissance The Walkmen You & Me Blitzen Trapper Furr TV On The Radio Dear Science Okkervil River The Stand Ins Ryan Adams Cardinology Oasis Dig Out Your Soul Little Joy S/T Bloc Party Intimacy Conor Oberst S/T The Anniversary Devil on Our Side Ben Folds Way to Normal […]

1) Evan Dando (The Lemonheads) Baby I’m Bored 2) Richard Ashcroft (Verve) Alone With Everbody 3) Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) Into the Wild 4) Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) 12 Bar Blues 5) Thom Yorke (Radiohead) The Eraser

1) The Absolute Sandman vol. 4 by Neil Gaiman and various 2) The Absolute Sandman vol. 3 by Neil Gaiman and various 3) The Joker by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo 4) Astonishing X-Men vol. 2 (hardcover) by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday 5) Doktor Sleepless – Engines of Desire by Warren Ellis and Ivan […]

1) 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso 2) All Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely 3) Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips 4) Age of Bronze by Eric Shanower 5) Scalped by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guer 6) Captain America by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, and Butch Guice 7) Fables […]

1) Pearl Jam – Vs. 2) Pearl Jam – Ten 3) Pearl Jam – Vitalogy (Original Version) 4) Pearl Jam – Yield 5) Pearl Jam – Lost Dogs

Super secret spy thrillers are all the rage! With the latest James Bond movie Quantum of Solace heating up the theaters with nonstop action goodness, and classic spy noir, I thought it was time that Pretentious Record Store Guy came out of the closet and professed his love of the action spy thriller genre. All […]

The Stills Oceans Will Rise Q-Tip The Renaissance The Walkmen You & Me Blitzen Trapper Furr TV On The Radio Dear Science Okkervil River The Stand Ins Ryan Adams Cardinology Oasis Dig Out Your Soul Little Joy S/T Bloc Party Intimacy Conor Oberst S/T The Anniversary Devil on Our Side Ben Folds Way to Normal […]

Q-Tip just came out with an amazing album last Tuesday called The Renaissance. Yeah, it’s Q-Tip so you know it’s the heat, but way back in 2002, he had a solo record that was about to drop called Kamaal the Abstract. Apparently it was way too crazy for the record label so they shelved it. […]

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Chinese Democracy will finally arrive! Long delayed and highly anticipated (in the 90s and early 2000s), Guns N’ Roses (or whatever passes for Axl Rose and company’s rotating bandmates these days) opus nearly 15 years in the making is finally hitting stores a month from today. The bad news is that the CD is a […]

Prince. His name says it all. Sure Micheal Jackson was Bad and could dance up a storm.  Sure Madonna had the sexiest videos to some of the hottest songs.  Sure Phil Collins big, dumb mug was plastered everywhere like some sort of ugly drummer version of Big Brother watching all over mankind.  But let’s face […]

How did you spend your summer? Pretentious Record Store Guy spent his holed up in a cabin in Minnesota writing new material for his upcoming album that may or may not be released depending on how the legal situation stacks up with his former band mates, road crew, roadies, former manager and the Swedish model […]

Red Rocket 7 is freaking amazing! What else can you call an epic sci-fi, tour de force through the history of rock and roll but amazing? Written and illustrated by Madman creator Mike Allred and lovingly colored by his wife and partner in crime, Laura, Red Rocket 7 follows the exploits of the seventh clone […]