The Dramatics, "In the Rain" Oh baby. Listen to that reverb! Those strings and horns! I don't think I'm cool enough to listen to something like this, frankly. The Suede Denim Secret Police are going to haul me off. Deerhoof, "Department of Corrections" There's something...
METZ, "Drained Lake" The closest that noise rock ever really got to any kind of mass popularity was in the late 90s, when the grunge tide lifted up the boats of related acts like Helmet and some folks got major label contracts. But this stuff...
Bathory, "Possessed" Bathory's second album, The Return of the Darkness and Evil, was one of the touchstones in black metal's first wave. Most of the traits of the genre were in place at this point, with the murky production, shrieked vocals, satanic themes, and punishing...
Bathory, "Song To Hall Up High" Black metal pioneer Bathory (which was pretty much just Quorthon) pivoted away from the pure black metal of their earlier albums towards Viking metal, more or less establishing that genre too. Hammerheart is one of the key albums of...
If I wanted to point to a "lol random!" kind of playlist, today might be the day. Minutemen, "Tension" This song, from The Punch Line, really shows off what made the Minutemen so great. Listen to that rhythm section! Listen to D Boon hanging back...
