Pinegrove, "Darkness (acoustic)" After a very good and well-received second album (Cardinal), Pinegrove ran into some serious problems that derailed the band after accusations surfaced about Evan Hall. It was a messy situation that Hall and the band tried to handle head-on, eventually going through...
Prince Paul, "A Prince Among Thieves" Hearing this song out of context, the climax/punchline of Prince Paul's briliant album A Prince Among Thieves, really is kind of jarring. It makes so much sense in the original context but is a strange one outside of...
Rocket From The Crypt, "Good Bye" RFTC almost in a Smashing Pumpkins kind of mode here. Can't decide which band would be more insulted by that comparison. Señor Coconut, "Pisco Control (Jive Electico)" Señor Coconut's album of Kraftwerk covers done in a Latin style is...
Emperor, "A Fine Day to Die" Among the various albums to emerge from the second wave of black metal, In The Nightside Eclipse seems to me to be the one that really set the template that a lot of black metal followed. While it's inaccessible,...
James Brown, "I Got You (I Feel Good)" There's a certain strange thing that goes on in my head around timelines. This song was first released in an early version in 1964, and it absolutely does not seem like it should be contemporaneous with, say,...