June 27, 2020
Electric Adolescence Hall of Fame

Definitive Artist Retrospective Mixes – by Electric Adolescence

While I would never downplay the appeal of listening to a great album, I’m not sure there is anything more compelling than hearing the best output from the greatest artists distilled into a single session.
July 7, 2020
Mix Tape Graphic

Cassettes are an Emotional Analog, what is Spotify?

As much as I fret, fuss and finesse over songs and the order they appear on a Spotify playlist, they do not extract the same emotional toll upon me that putting together a mix tape used to.
August 15, 2020
Shure M44-7 Inverted

Shure M44-7: A Cartridge Heard by Millions, Known by Few

Of all the far-flung scenarios I could imagine happening in the decades to come, one that never occurred to me was a future without the Shure M44-7.
January 2, 2021

J-Punk: A Brief History of Docs, Mohawks and Degenerates

It was the mid-‘80s, the original Japanese punk scene was starting to peter out and become workaday, D-beat predictable. Then brothers Fifi and Fink arrived and things began to change.