Mort Garson, "Baroque No. 2" Mort Garson is a synthesizer pioneer, one of the first people to record music with a Moog. Sacred Bones has been reissuing his work, both his records and various rarities from his estate's archive. This is one of the latter,...
L'altra, "Slow as Cake" Is cake slow? I don't think of cake as a particularly slow food. I suppose it takes a while to pre-heat the oven, bake the thing, let it cool, and then decorate it. So...maybe they are slow. But they're not...
False, "Saturnalia" The opening to the 2015 album from False (called Untitled, the same as their first EP, because fuck you!), featuring their blend of black metal with other elements like thrash. The stretch around 1:30-2, for example, is pretty thrash-y. The middle section...
The Emotions, "My Honey And Me" This comes to us from early in the third phase of Stax Records' life, after they reached an arrangement with CBS Records. This period still contains plenty of fantastic songs, but Stax was also on a slow decline. Luckily...
Today's tunes. The Nation of Ulysses, "Maniac Dragstrip" There's a search for authenticity in rock music that goes back decades, where bands are judged to be real or poseurs based on a variety of markers, many of which make no sense at all. And in...
