Pyrrhon, "The Invisible Hand Holds A Whip" Every three years, discordant death metal masters Pyrrhon fire off a new album, and every three years, it whips. I first encountered them with their second record, The Mother of Virtues, and have eagerly followed them since then....
Green Day, "Basket Case" I know they became clownish and bad, and that continuing to like them is evidence of creeping Boomerism, but I don't care, this album rules and this song rules. Yves Tumor, "Romanticist" I had my annual tour through the year end...
clipping., "Nothing Is Safe" There was probably a time in my life when I would have regarded clipping. askance. I've long been OK with noise in my music, having picked up an affection for industrial as a teenager that continued forward with noise rock, various...
Eddie Holland, "Take A Chance On Me" Alas, no, this isn't a predecessor of the ABBA song, but now I want to hear Motown style covers of ABBA songs. The Pietasters, "Without You" Seems like we've had a lot more of the Pietasters live than...
The Grifters, "Spaced Out" By the time the Grifters arrived at this record, album number five, they were recording for a mid-major (Sub Pop), in a real studio, and they were sounding like a real full-on band instead of the ramshackle act they used to...
