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Five Songs, 3/20/2022

DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist, "[Part 2]" Oh shit! Enjoy! This is the second half of Product Placement, the breakbeat extravaganza collaboration between two break experts. Incredible stuff, and honestly, I could probably just end today after this. This project ties together the songs that provide...

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Five Songs, 9/13/2021

Less Than Jake, "Bridge and Tunnel Authority" This was a companion piece for Anthem, one of the best Less Than Jake records. They took a bunch of unused material from that record, polished it up, and released it as an extra album. And, honestly, there's...

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Five Songs, 12/10/2020

Bathory, "Song To Hall Up High" Black metal pioneer Bathory (which was pretty much just Quorthon) pivoted away from the pure black metal of their earlier albums towards Viking metal, more or less establishing that genre too. Hammerheart is one of the key albums of...

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Five Songs, 12/8/2020

Son Volt, "Back Into Your World" Can I talk about some of the strange artifacts that my music collection has accumulated over the years? Oh, that's right, you can't stop me! The process of ripping CDs (often with dodgy info databases), matching via iTunes and...

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Five Songs, 11/7/2018

Today! The Exceptions, "Mean Ole Malley" I come to you today with an important piece of information: buying records from a band based entirely on a particular comic artist doing the cover art has a pretty shaky track record. NEWS YOU CAN USE. Blah blah...