Hammerhead, "Evil Twin" Hammerhead's initial three-album run with Amphetamine Reptile is probably my favorite on the label, and it's the second and third albums (Into The Vortex and Duh, The Big City) that are the real prizes. The first record is good, but the latter...
Pond, "Filler" As always: not the Australian band, but the grunge-adjacent band from Portland. And also, as always, I'll recommend all three Pond records as being some of the finest from the grunge scene, peripheral as they were. This tune is off their worst album,...
Bim Skala Bim, "Set Me Up" This is another one of those songs that has a tremendous sense of place about it in my memory. This came out early in 1995, in my last year of college, and my friend Miranda and I listened to...
Rancid, "Ruby Soho" As an unabashed Operation Ivy guy, I was always a little disappointed with Rancid. They always just seemed a little more dour, a little less tuneful, and a little less fun. That said, the album of Rancid's that I like enough to...
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, "You Spin Me Round '86" The rare Shadowy Men track with a voice on it! Very little, mind you, but judged on a curve, it's a ton. Pond, "Magnifier" Great stuff so far today! I've sung the praises of...
