Palace Brothers, "I Tried To Stay Healthy For You" This is from the first Palace Brothers album, when it was not at all clear exactly who Palace Brothers were or who was playing on the album. It turned out to be Will Oldham, of course,...
Ice Cube, "No Vaseline" Ice Cube ended the explosive Death Certificate with a savage diss track on N.W.A, one that N.W.A wasn't able to remotely respond to. They kind of didn't really even try. While the homophobia in the song makes...
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...
Aden, "New Fast" During the early 90s, parallel to grunge, there was a growing movement of indie pop bands that didn't make a lot of headway, but were a recognizable subculture. As the 90s went on, a billion of these pillowy soft indie bands popped...
Today! Gaza, "Skull Trophy" Gaza, out of Salt Lake City, played a brand of metal that crossed a bunch of arbitrary genre boundaries, usually a combination of sludge and doom. I recognize that these kinds of categorizations are deeply unhelpful for folks unfamiliar with metal,...
