clipping., "Nothing Is Safe" There was probably a time in my life when I would have regarded clipping. askance. I've long been OK with noise in my music, having picked up an affection for industrial as a teenager that continued forward with noise rock, various...
Firewater, "This Is My Life" One of the highlights on the best Firewater album, Golden Hour. It's an album that attempts to answer the question "what if we just made the whole album out of highlights". Calexico, "Yours and Mine" Hot damn, shuffle bringing the...
The Aquabats, "SHOWTIME!" When the Aquabats got rolling, they always had this kind of corny, cracked Saturday morning cartoon vibe. Like they were making songs for a show-within-a-show on some arch adult animation cartoon. And, of course, given the world we're in, the show eventually...
Sharon Jones, "Make It Good To Me" Fuck me, listen to that organ. I try and play a decent amount of soul around the kids, because it's just such amazing music, and with luck, they'll get the same appreciation of it. I try not to...
We here at Five Songs often find ourselves apologizing for our content around here. With the random nature of what shuffle coughs up, sometimes it's not great. Uh, in other news, here's today. clipping., "Taking Off" The lesson of clipping., beyond any other, is how...
