Calexico, "Gypsy's Curse" The Black Light, the second Calexico album, is really where Calexico became Calexico. The dusty southwestern aesthetic reached full flower, with the rhythms and arrangements being incredibly evocative. I mean, I suppose this track explains it more than I could. They would...
RJD2, "Sell The World" I think we've had a couple tracks from The Horror by now, which is kind of a companion EP/remix project to go along with Deadringer. Unlike a lot of these kinds of revists/companion pieces, it's very much a worthy...
Not a ton to say today. James Brown, "It's A Man's World" So, uh, sometimes the sexual politics of Brown's music wasn't great. You know, it happens. I'll just observe that Brown had a co-writer for this song, Betty Jean Newsome, which is kind of...
Today! The White Stripes, "Suzy Lee" From their first, most primitive record, the White Stripes nevertheless still sounded like themselves right from the beginning. Some of that is Jack White's distinctive yelp, some of that is the spare blues, some of it is the plodding...
A Motown artist! A fake Motown artist! Big Business playing with two bands! Mayer Hawthorne, "The News" We've heard from Mayer Hawthorne before with Tuxedo, but here he is with his solo act. Hawthorne, who grew up in Ann Arbor, Michegan, not far from the...
