Calexico, "Gypsy's Curse" The Black Light, the second Calexico album, is really where Calexico became Calexico. The dusty southwestern aesthetic reached full flower, with the rhythms and arrangements being incredibly evocative. I mean, I suppose this track explains it more than I could. They would...
Uzeda, "Female" You know, there's more than a little similarity between Uzeda and the Dog Faced Hermans. There's no personnel connection between them, but there's a shared space of a kind of arty noise rock. Excellent stuff. Squirrel Bait, "Kick the Cat" No! Squirrel Bait,...
The Pietasters, "Crying Over You" I'm of the opinion that the Pietasters really fell off hard after Oolooloo, driven among other things by Stephen Jackson's vocals getting much more gruff and the band really starting to emphasize rock more and more. That said, there are...
Mastodon, "Black Tongue" I spent a bunch of time with The Hunter last year, seeing if I could really get to the point of appreciating the record. It was a really big break with their previous two albums, and my initial reaction when it came...
WOAH. Kinda blacked out there for a little bit. But we're back! We're using a new service! This time it's all running on all our own shit so it should be solid! I'm only at the mercy of the software! And the device it's running...
