Calexico, "Heart of Downtown" This comes from Calexico's Christmas album, Seasonal Shift. The major concession here is that the guitar line is a little more filled out, and there's a little bit fuller chorus. It's a Calexico song otherwise, which is a perfectly good thing....
Less Than Jake, "Automatic" As the majors decided that ska, and especially ska-punk, was Really Hot, a bunch of bands signed contracts even though it probably didn't make a ton of sense. But, honestly, Less Than Jake wasn't a bad bet by the labels. There's...
U.S. Maple, "Rice Ain't Afraid Of Nothing" A thing about U.S. Maple is that they frequently sounded like they were playing three different songs at the same time. It legitimately sounds like they got their wires crossed while playing, but then it kind...
Windhand, "Halcyon" Windhand are usually categorized as playing doom metal, which is to say that they kind of follow in the footsteps of Black Sabbath or at least Sleep. There's aspects of the sound here which really kind of blur into adjacent genres, which is...
Today's music. Coil, "Who By Fire" Peter Christopherson is one of the true innovators of underground music, performing as a member of industrial/noise pioneers Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle. He then went on to become part of Coil, a band dedicated to electronic music...
