Vaselines, "Bitch" Eh. New Bomb Turks, "Professional Againster" The New Bomb Turks arrived on Epitaph with Scared Straight, and immediately things got more professional. And that's not a good thing when you're dealing with this sort of thing. Listen to this - it's certainly not...
The Flaming Lips, "Once Beyond Hopelessness" This is from the Lips' Christmas On Mars, the soundtrack to their movie project, and it's very much a soundtrack. As a result, it feels disconnected when you're just listening to it, and it doesn't really do a whole...
I'm back! Fog, "Pneumonia" What do you get when you cross lo-fi indie rock with turntablism? You get Fog, pretty much, with this song sounding like Silkworm ran into Kid Koala. Which is a solid pitch! This kind of hybrid really only works when the...
Songs! Scarface, "In Between Us" Scarface is one of the elder statesmen of rap, having gotten his start with the Geto Boys, who terrified the hell out of mainstream white America back in the day. After leaving them and going solo, he's had a long...
