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Five Songs, 7/18/2021

NoFX, "Dinosaurs Will Die" By the time they reached 2000's Pump Up The Valuum, it was clear that NoFX were dedicated to never evolving for any reason. Which just makes them writing a song about the impending destruction of the music industry for, uh, not...

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Five Songs, 6/13/2021

Astronoid, "Resin" We've frequently talked here about the blurry space between black metal and shoegaze, and some of the bands occupying that liminal space. There's a fair bit of distance to travel between My Bloody Valentine and Bathory, mind you, but because they do exist...

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Five Songs, 5/14/2021

Pitchblende, "Flax" Now, that's a tune! Kinda wish they had left the vocals off, they're pretty unnecessary here. Pardoner, "My Sorry Ass" A end-of-year list discovery from 2017, I didn't know anything about this band before getting this record. But listen to that Pitchblende song...

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Five Songs, 3/22/2021

The Emotions, "My Honey And Me" This comes to us from early in the third phase of Stax Records' life, after they reached an arrangement with CBS Records. This period still contains plenty of fantastic songs, but Stax was also on a slow decline. Luckily...

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Five Songs, 3/21/2021

milo, "pure scientific intelligence (quantum)" This track sounds like at least three different songs being played simultaneously, which is delightful. Bananagun, "Out of Reach" One of the things that the Internet promised us is that we'd be connected to people all over the world, opening...