Published on December 27th, 2012 in the SNS Post, as the final post of my column RELEASED THIS DAY.

Did you get money or gift cards as presents this year? Spend it on these tunes.

The Top 12 –

1. Dwight Yoakam, 3 Pears (Warner)
   
2. Fiona Apple, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (Epic)
   
3. Cold Specks, I Predict A Graceful Expulsion (Broken Hertz)
   
4. Bat For Lashes, The Haunted Man (Capitol)
   …

The Armoires, ZIBALDONE (Big Stir Records)
Release Date: August 2, 2019 (available now)

Did The Armoires' new album save my life?

Monday 7:09am. My alarm fails to ring, and so I've started my day 90 minutes late -- to be compounded quickly by the special hell of Chicagoland summer roadwork traffic. I stomp through my chores, comb my teeth, dodge the wee hungry beasties, and grumble out the door.

I am twitching and bitching at every minor vehicular rudeness in my path, and my anger is in danger of…

Daniel Amos, DOPPELGÄNGER (1983)

The finest hour of Terry Taylor and co., as they enter their new wave era and welcome one of the most unhingedly melodic bass players in the world in Tim Chandler.

Web: http://www.danielamos.com/da/doppelganger/

Welcome to DOLPHSPINS!  Since the end of 2012, when my RELEASED THIS DAY column ended at the SNS Post, I've posted year-end lists and other quick shots on my personal social media, but I have been without a specific spot where I write about music.  

Here 'tis!

DOLPHSPINS will include musings about records and CDs that I spin from my collection as well as new music that I take for a spin.  I'm not planning to keep a particular schedule as of yet.  Besides the fatigue that came from the RTD schedule I kept…