Morphine

Listening: June 2026

My most-played music for the month

• Sweepers, The Magnetic Fields, YHWH Nailgun, Horse Lords, Mastodon, and 8 more

Music League: Say my name

Songs with a name in the title

• Part of a series

• Shake Chain: Mike
  You’ll be hard-pressed to find another vocalist who’s leaving it all on the field in quite the same way Shake Chain’s Kate Mahony is. Her anguished yowling is sometimes unnerving, often hilarious, and always admirably obnoxious.
• Morphine: Claire
  The first Morphine album feels like you’ve stumbled upon an unassuming trio playing to no one under a street light on a desolate corner in the middle of the night, like you’re living in… See more →

Listening: August 2023

My most-played music for the month

• Radian, Megadeth, Loscil, Lawrence English, Snooper, and 7 more

Listening: January 2022

My most-played music for the month

• Kate NV, Opeth, Marissa Nadler, Low, Lost Horizon, and 9 more

Listening: August 2020

My most-played music for the month

• Combustible Edison, Revocation, My Bloody Valentine, Power Trip, Ween, and 8 more

Listening: September 2017

My most-played music for the month

• Morphine, Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs, and 5 more

Listening: December 2014

My most-played music for the month

• Retox, Shellac, Whores, White Lung, Sannhet, and 14 more

Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story

• Robert Bralver and David Ferino, 2011,

Listening: January 2014

My most-played music for the month

• Diarrhea Planet, Big Star, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Morphine, Melt-Banana, and 6 more

Listening: June 2011

My most-played music for the month

• Tombs, Fucked Up, Puerto Rico Flowers, Battles, Morphine, and 6 more

Album Cover Contest Dénouement

• Part of a series

My album cover contest has come to a close and the scores have been tallied. Contestants received a half point for each artist correctly identified and a half point for each album, making the highest possible score 55 points.

And the winner is... Raul Gutierrez!

Combining his own considerable musical knowledge with that of several friends, as well as incorporating some clever cyber-sleuthing techniques, Raul was able to at least partially identify a whopping forty-four… See more →

Listening: March 2011

My most-played music for the month

• Lightning Bolt, Superchunk, Morphine, Minor Threat, Fucked Up, and 8 more

Listening: September 2010

My most-played music for the month

• Gang of Four, Arcade Fire, The Knife, Cheap Trick, Dead Can Dance, and 8 more

Listening: September 2008

My most-played music for the month

• TV on the Radio, Metallica, Radiohead, Morphine, Low, and 13 more

Listening: April 2008

My most-played music for the month

• Minutemen, Minor Threat, Pharaoh, Dead Kennedys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and 7 more

Listening: November 2007

My most-played music for the month

• The Ramones, Steve Reich, The Misfits, Mogwai, The Futureheads, and 13 more

The Night

• Morphine, 2000

Listening: February 2006

My most-played music for the month

• Devo, Aphex Twin, Naked City, General Patton Vs. The X-Ecutioners, Tortoise, and 15 more

Listening: September 2005

My most-played music for the month

• Bad Religion, Sigur Rós, Raven, Broadcast, The Jesus Lizard, and 7 more