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Five Songs, 7/13/2022

Fifteen, "The End of the Summer" Fifteen is one of the descendent bands of the legendary Crimpshrine, one of those bands that helped spawn an entire scene. Fifteen is where Jeff Ott ended up, and they kept going in the same vein, playing the melodic...

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Five Songs, 2/24/2022

Pond, "Filler" As always: not the Australian band, but the grunge-adjacent band from Portland. And also, as always, I'll recommend all three Pond records as being some of the finest from the grunge scene, peripheral as they were. This tune is off their worst album,...

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Five Songs, 6/9/2021

Fifteen, "Petroleum Distillation" Fifteen is the successor band to Crimpshrine, who were one of the seminal bands of the entire Gilman/Lookout scene in California. Crimpshrine splintered, yielding Operation Ivy, the legendary Cometbus zine, and Fifteen. As you can hear, this is very much right...

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Five Songs, 3/5/2018

Today! Labradford, "Sliding Glass" More of Labradford's drone-y version of post-rock, with that lovely build up during the song. The Mad Lads, "Whatever Hurts You" No, this isn't actually a Motown song, this is actually from Stax, from 1968 even. Usually, it's easier to spot...

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Five Songs, 12/13/2017

Another year end roundup, this one from Allmusic. More will be coming! Today's music. Camper Van Beethoven, "Turquoise Jewelry" You know, up until listening to this now, after listening to some Firewater earlier today, I'd never really made the connection between the bands. But I...