The Decemberists, "When The War Came" There's a lot to really like on The Crane Wife, especially the epic songs on it, but this song isn't really one of the highlights. It's fine, I don't mind it, but it's not one of the songs I...
Excellent one today. Joe Lally, "Message From Earth" I don't know why I'm surprised at how minimal Lally is willing to get, given how even the most spare Fugazi songs still had a lot going on. But, it's silly to get surprised by that, as...
SIX SONGS TODAY Mix Master Mike, "Supa Wyde Laces" We had a track from Hello Nasty yesterday, today we've got a track from the DJ that joined them with that record. Mix Master Mike was a member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, the most successful...
Next to the bass / turn up the radio! J Church, "The Heroic Trio" Cat Food is a quickie album that J Church threw together by recording some songs in a day, adding in a couple compilation tracks, and calling it good. But punk never really...
Well, it starts out pretty well. Boards of Canada, "Smokes Quantity" A little bit ago, when Seattle was pretty snowed in, I trundled in to work, and my travel mug popped open in my bag. Everything was soaked, ruining a nice deck of cards, a...
