marian call

In this episode of the Fandomania: Geek Music podcast, I talk to Marian Call. Her latest release is Standing Stones. It came out last year, but just around the time I went on hiatus. I’d been wanting to have her on since I came back, but I’ll admit I Read More

By now you might well have read that I’ll be taking an indefinite hiatus from the column and the podcast. After this list, I should have one more, and that will probably be all I’ll be posting for quite some time. I’m not sure when, or even if, I’ll be Read More

OK, time to get caught up on some reviews. Many of these really do deserve more than just a few words, but I would like to promote them, so this is what I can do for now. Just remember that length of review is not necessarily indicative of my enjoyment Read More

It’s been a long time since I’ve written pretty much anything for this column. A large part of that is probably because of the podcast, but also school just wrapped up for the summer. Anyway, I decided to combine a couple of different types of lists so Read More

It’s Christmas time again, which means it’s time to finally listen to all of the songs I’ve acquired since I released last year’s list. It’s weird how many Christmas songs I encounter throughout the year that I always feel compelled to save until after Read More

MC Frontalot’s latest album, which comes out on August 26, 2014, contains songs based on fairy tales from various cultures. Technically you could say it’s a children’s album but, like They Might Be Giants and other bands, it’s something that adults can Read More

Well, geez, this list just kind of crept up on me! I didn’t even realize I had so many videos piled up until I started compiling the list. It’s been too long since I’ve written anything for this column, so let’s get back into it with a list of recent Read More

Not all of these videos are technically new, and they’re not even all necessarily recent since I’ve been compiling this list for quite some time, but they are new to my lists, so I suppose that counts for something. This time we have a couple of Read More

Last year, Marian Call’s double album Something Fierce was one of my favorites of the year. This year, in an effort to get more mainstream attention (NPR, Paste Magazine, etc.), she is rereleasing the album on November 13. For my part, given that I Read More

This year’s list features more Cthulhu than in the past. I was inspired by the fact that my students are actually reading an H.P. Lovecraft story, “The Outsider,” right now. Yes, I’m totally trying to drive my students crazy. Read More

Wow, there have been an awful lot of videos building up in my queue lately. I didn’t even realize how many there were until I started to type this up. I’m saving a couple of them for an upcoming mini-review column, but prepare for some really great Read More

After last week's dream covers list, I thought I’d return to some actual real covers performed by various geeky artists. Some have been featured before, others are new, but they’re all good covers. And there seem to be an awful lot of JoCo and Frontalot Read More