Skalpel, "Quicksilver" Love me a good jazz/DJ thing. Destroyer, "The Bad Arts" Streethawk: A Seduction was the first Destroyer record that I heard, and this was the song that I heard on that record that really got me going. Something about how spare a...
Calexico, "Voices in the Field" For a split second, at the beginning of this track, there's a burly menace to the sound that the seasoned Five Songs reader/listener would suspect is going to descend into some nightmare basement howling and guitarpocalypse. But no, it's...
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, "Simmer Down" Ska-Core, The Devil & More is an EP with mostly covers released in 1993, notably primarily for this nice cover of a Marley tune. Other than this, it's far from an essential release. Uncle Tupelo, "Sandusky" March 16-20, 1992 might...
Mad Caddies, "Nobody Wins at the Laundromat" When ska-punk just kind of turns into punk with horns, I start some losing interest. Sure, it can still be good, but there are a lot of great straight-up punk bands that they're going to be competing with....
Medeski, Martin and Wood, "Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho" If my search is to be trusted, there are about 102 blog posts on this site indicating that I don't know shit about jazz. Sad that I'm so ignorant, given that I actually listen to a fair bit of it....
