Poplar Mucilage

Blindfold tests, critical archives, fungal finds, urban ruins, and the most comprehensive, wide-ranging and idiosyncratic year-by-year single-listener recorded music accounting on the planet.

By Chuck Eddy

· Launched 9 months ago

35 Rock Album Reviews, 2008-2009

Black Lips, Peter Doherty, Hold Steady, Local H, Jay Reatard, Vampire Weekend, lots more

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No More Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for Schoolly D

And who cares what stupid Gene Simmons thinks anyway

Jun 22•Chuck Eddy

Drivin N Cryin review, 1993

Frustrating band, long promising something they never quite delivered.

Jun 21•Chuck Eddy

How Reactionary Did Pop Country Get?

Country radio sunk pretty low in the early 2020s. But was it really MAGA?

Jun 20•Chuck Eddy

Toil and Trouble

Blindfold Test #33

Jun 19•Chuck Eddy

Lou Christie review, 1988

Lightning strikes (not once but twice)

Jun 18•Chuck Eddy

Alison Moyet review, 1985

Before Adele or Amy Winehouse or Lisa Stansfield, Yaz(oo)'s diva souled England

Jun 17•Chuck Eddy

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