Alphabetical Archive

Before Edwyn Collins scored with his hit, “A Girl Like You,” he was a member of this Scottish band.  I’ll pull out something from section P tomorrow.

I’ve been digging through my music collection one letter at a time in an effort to rediscover (and in some cases discover for the first time) what’s actually in there. New Fast Automatic

MC 900 ft Jesus–known to his mom as Mark Griffin of Dallas, Texas–was an experimental musician who spent a lot of time listening to hip hop.  One of the results was Hell With

I have no idea why this is my music collection.  That’s why I’m doing this inventory thing letter-by-letter. We’re now up to letter L.

Oh, and I also have to include this second song.

I can’t name too many bands from Belgium, but if someone asked me to, I’d offer up K’s Choice.  They were around from 1994 to 2003 before taking six years off.  They’re now

At one time in the early 90s, these guys were my favourite British band.  (I know, I know.  I mostly stood alone on this issue.)   Everyone knows “Right Here, Right Now,” the

I was searching for something on Shirley Manson and Garbage when I accidentally found this Scottish band.  I’ve since bought everything they’ve ever released. We’ll get to a track from section J tomorrow.

As we take another spin through my record collection, pulling out a song from each section every day, we arrive at H.  This is where we find another one-hit-wonder from the post-grunge era.  

Here’s one of those songs that flew across modern rock radio’s radar for about 15 seconds sometime in 1998.  Gordon–a band, not a person–was apparently a personal project of producer Brendan O’Brien. Am

When I started at CFNY in 1986, I discovered a gigantic trove of music that I had no idea that existed. This is one of the obscurities that I still fancy.  Fischer Z

Her full name is Erika M. Anderson.  She got angry groing up on South Dakota, so she moved west to vent. Here’s what she has to say about California.  The album is Past