Crate Digging
10 Concept Albums Tim Heidecker Thinks Everyone Should Own
Featuring Elvis Costello, Randy Newman, The Kinks, Warren Zevon, Ween, and The Beatles. 10 Concept Albums Tim Heidecker Thinks Everyone Should Own Liz Shannon Miller
10 Rock Albums from the ’70s Heart Thinks Everyone Should Own
The Wilson sisters share their love for albums from artists like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Joni Mitchell, and more. 10 Rock Albums from the ’70s Heart Thinks Everyone Should Own Jonah Krueger
10 Folk Albums from the 1960s John Oates Thinks Everyone Should Own
The legendary songwriter runs through how artists like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Byrds, The Band, and more inspired him as a kid. 10 Folk Albums from the 1960s John Oates Thinks Everyone Should Own Jonah Krueger
10 Essential Film Scores Este Haim and Christopher Stracey Think Everyone Should Own
From There Will be Blood to Jurassic Park, co-composers Este Haim and Christopher Stracey break down their favorite film scores. 10 Essential Film Scores According to HAIM’s Este Haim and Christopher Stracey Mary Siroky
Madison Beer Names 10 “Honest and Vulnerable” Albums
To mark the release of her new album, Madison Beer talks through 10 records she keeps on repeat. 10 Honest and Vulnerable Albums Madison Beer Thinks Everyone Should Own Mary Siroky
10 Rock Albums IDLES Thinks Every Fan Should Own
Crate Digging is a recurring feature in which we take a deep dive into a genre and turn up several albums all music fans should know about. In this edition, IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen shares his exclusive picks. 2022 was as good of a year for IDLES as it could have been. After their stunning 2021 album Crawler found them touring the world with a loaded schedule, they played Coachella, Glastonbury, toured the US twice, and, most recently, nabbed a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. Since their breakthrough in 2018 with Joy as an Act of Resistance, IDLES have been a leader among their post-punk contemporaries, and their dominance both in their native England and beyond is a testament to their position as one of the biggest rock bands of the last decade. Guitarist Mark Bowen is ...
10 Record Store Day 2021 Releases Every Music Fan Should Own
Crate Digging is a recurring feature in which we take a deep dive into a genre and turn up several albums all music fans should know about. In this special edition of the series, we’re shining a spotlight on Record Store Day‘s second drop of 2021 by rounding up the 10 releases you won’t want to miss. Due to the global pandemic, Record Store Day 2021 was split into two “RSD Drops,” with the first occurring on June 12th. (RSD typically occurs in April of each year.) Saturday, July 17th marks the second and final event; as always, it’s a celebration among independent record stores uplifting the collection and preservation of vinyl. RSD has grown into a global event and continues to include designated releases — below, we’ve rounded up our picks for ten can’t-miss Record Store Day drops, in no...
10 Albums Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz Thinks Every Music Fan Should Own
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-21T14:51:01+00:00“>May 21, 2021 | 10:51am ET Crate Digging is a recurring feature in which we take a deep dive into a genre and turn up several albums all music fans should know about. In this special edition, Adam Duritz of Counting Crows shares his picks. Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz spends much of his time devouring new music. “There’s this record store in London that Immer [Counting Crows guitarist David Immerglück] and I would visit every time we were on tour in England,” he recalls to Consequence over Zoom. “We would spend one to two full days in that store. They would play us stuff we had never heard and we would buy everything.” The UK holds a special place in Duri...
10 Riot Grrrl Albums Every Music Fan Should Own
Editor’s Note: Crate Digging is a recurring feature in which we take a deep dive into a genre and turn up several albums all music fans should know about. This time, we celebrate Women’s History Month with a deep dig into the riot grrrl genre. Emerging from the deep forests of The Pacific Northwest, riot grrrl was a rasping rallying cry at a time when gender norms weighed heavily on the mosh pits and politics imposed itself dangerously on ovaries and queerness. With punk legends like Patti Smith and The Slits preceding them, the emerging DIY feminist punk movement of the ’90s brought with it grievances of the third wavers. Faced with no space in the existing punk-rock scene, attention was turned to tackling sexism and carving out a new underground alternative. A movement of rioting gi...
10 Bands You Probably Discovered by Playing Guitar Hero
Crate Digging is a recurring feature in which we take a deep dive into a genre and turn up several albums or bands that all music fans should know about. As classic gaming series Guitar Hero turns 15 this week, we look at 10 bands a generation of fans likely learned about through gaming rather than crate digging. In the mid-to-late 2000s, the Guitar Hero series was the party game to own. Initially a partnership between publisher/hardware manufacturer RedOctane and developer Harmonix, the brand built upon the latter’s prior music-based projects — such as Frequency, Karaoke Revolution, and Amplitude — and other genre titans like Dance Dance Revolution, GuitarFreaks, Gitaroo Man, and PaRappa the Rapper. Essentially, players had to match button combinations and rhythmic cues to the arrangement...
