Queens of the Stone Age, "Un-Reborn Again" This comes from the most recent QotSA album, Villains, where they worked with producer Mark Ronson. The result is a little bit of a different feel to things. It's a slick, glossy record, full of moves that I...
Arab Strap, "Flirt" Folks, the streak of metal is over! I wonder what proportion of my music library is various genres. I think just plain "rock" probably dominates, but I'd love to know what percentage is metal, rap, soul, ska, or whatever else. I wish...
Arab Strap, "The Clearing" Arab Strap was a band from the same music scene that produced Mogwai and Belle & Sebastian, but unlike those two bands, they've never done that much for me. This comes from their first album, and it's kind of unfocused, and there's...
Six songs today! Amon Tobin, "Precursor" One of the big trends of rap beats was taking old soul music and speeding it up so that it sounds like the Chipmunks. Here, Amon Tobin sounds like he's doing kind of the same thing, only with cartoon...
