Panopticon, "Bodies Under The Falls" This is one of the three epic (10+ minute) songs on Kentucky, where Panopticon really lets the black metal blast out. But even among the fury, he takes the time to have that interlude in the middle. It's just a...
The Baseball Project, "Don't Call Them Twinkies" There's a Venn diagram you can draw, with "Baseball Nerd" as one circle and "Seattle Music Nerd" in the other. In that fantastic overlap sits The Baseball Project and your faithful Five Songs correspondant. Where else can you...
Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Midnight Ravers" By and large, I tend to prefer the early material from Marley, where there's some more ska rhythms as opposed to reggae. Of course, that doesn't mean that his later material isn't brilliant. At any rate, Catch a...
Six songs! Lostbone, "Destroy What Destroys You" uhhhuhuhuhhuhuh...lostbone Pretty sure I ended up with this as a result of a grab bag of some variety or another. Among all the ways of discovering music, grab bags are certainly one of them. I'm not sure...
Today! The White Stripes, "Suzy Lee" From their first, most primitive record, the White Stripes nevertheless still sounded like themselves right from the beginning. Some of that is Jack White's distinctive yelp, some of that is the spare blues, some of it is the plodding...
