Dr. Dre, "Mix Tape 2 Track 1" My understanding is that this is from a mix tape that Dre used to sell at the Compton Swap Meet, which eventually made its way onto the internet. I've got three of these things, and it's a delight...
The Beatles, "Let It Be" When I find myself with no ideas / struggling to write a blog / I fall back on dumb jokes / mail it in TWRP, "Only the Best" OK, I don't love those lyrics there, but in the spirit of of mailing it...
Uzeda, "Female" You know, there's more than a little similarity between Uzeda and the Dog Faced Hermans. There's no personnel connection between them, but there's a shared space of a kind of arty noise rock. Excellent stuff. Squirrel Bait, "Kick the Cat" No! Squirrel Bait,...
I never write checks, so this blog is the only thing that I write the wrong year on after the calendar filps over. Marvin Gaye, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" A stone-cold classic. Polyrhythmics, "Cosimo" A lovely EP from 2020, Fondue Party continues a...
Vertigo, "Sit Down and Shut Up" Psychedelic noise rockers Vertigo had one final EP in 1993, Driver #43, which might have been their best single release. By this point, they were playing pretty tight, and everything was really hitting. It's a shame that they never...
