The White Stripes, "Fell In Love With a Girl" White Blood Cells still strikes me as such an unusual breakout album. The White Stripes didn't particularly soften their approach or anything, it's still the same kind of garage rock they'd been making to this point,...
METZ, "Drained Lake" The closest that noise rock ever really got to any kind of mass popularity was in the late 90s, when the grunge tide lifted up the boats of related acts like Helmet and some folks got major label contracts. But this stuff...
Superchunk, "Mower" Unlike with OutKast, I have a lot of trouble picking my favorite Superchunk album. No Pocky For Kitty was the first album I bought, and it's top notch, and it's a sentimental pick. Here's Where The String Come In has Superchunk at their...
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, "Massage Seats" We've had a lot of Madlib around here, in a bunch of different projects. In 2014, he got together with Freddie Gibbs, the upcoming gangsta rapper who also was comfortable as an underground MC. That collaboration, Piñata, was one of...
The Hit Pack, "Never Say No To Your Baby" A Motown track from 1965, the heavy horns here really sound a little more like Stax than like Motown, especially from 1965. Rufus Thomas, "Funky Mississippi" Yeah, see, those horns! DJ Vadim, "Your Revolution" DJ Vadim's...
