The NY Citizens, "Brooklyn's On Fire" That is some Saturday Night Live-ass horn work on this tune. Oh, this is the first time we've had them, huh? The NY Citizens were a pretty early band in the third wave of ska, so this was all...
Vaz, "The 2nd" Every now and again I encounter a record that I can't seem to be able to buy on digital, but is available on physical media. Usually it's some older release that nobody has bothered putting onto digital marketplaces, but sometimes there will...
Touché Amoré, "To Write Content" Touché Amoré is a bit of a genre Rorschach test: emo? Hardcore? Post-hardcore? All of them, I guess, and maybe folks will identify in whatever way that fits them into their tastes. Not me! I'll identify them as whatever genre...
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...
The Jam, "All Mod Cons" Title track of the first of their essential albums, and just a quick little gem. I wonder if I could learn this bass line? Ice Cube, "The Bomb" AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted is really a hybrid album, with the vintage Bomb...
