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Five Songs, 3/17/2022

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, "Hell" This, from Xtra-Acme USA, is kind of a sketch of a song, but it still cooks pretty good. I mean, just one good "weeeeeeeeeeellllllll" from Spencer is enough to get me going. Pile, "appendicitis" There's some other song that...

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Five Songs, 7/25/2021

Indian Handcrafts, "Starcraft" Hooray for rock duos! Major riffage here, you almost don't notice the absence of a bass player. Stevie Wonder, "Another Star" Stevie Wonder allowed himself some space to stretch out on the second album of Songs In The Keys Of Life. That...

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Five Songs, 2/6/2021

Soccer Mommy, "yellow is the color of her eyes" This seven-minute tune is the centerpiece of Soccer Mommy's record from last year, Color Theory. This record showed up on a lot of year end lists, and while I think it's good, I'm a little lyric...

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Five Songs, 1/22/2019

Here's today! Nickel Creek, "You Don't Know What's Going On" This project has now gone on long enough that I can't really remember which bands I've introduced and which ones I have not. And, honestly, it's not reasonable to assume everybody has read/listened to...