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Five Songs, 6/3/2021

Xasthur, "Purgatory Spiral" Another track from Xasthur, the weird experimental metal act that I ended up with courtesy of a Hydra Head grab bag. It's not really, uh, my bag. Converge, "Sadness Comes Home" All We Love We Leave Behind is my favorite Converge record,...

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Five Songs, 1/18/2020

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...

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Five Songs, 1/20/2019

Short and Sweet today. Because it has Matthew Sweet! HAHA! (it's not very sweet) Matthew Sweet, "Smog Moon" Sweet, during his peak period, was a reliably great power pop songwriter. But there were times when he'd kind of tip over into a cheesier territory, and...