Hüsker Dü, "Divide and Conquer" A thing that is easy to forget about Hüsker Dü is how ridiculously productive they were in their salad days. Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, and Flip Your Wig all came out within a 14 month period, a rate of...
Television, "See No Evil" There have been bands as cool as Television was when they released Marquee Moon, but I'm not sure there have been any cooler. SWANS, "In My Garden" On Children of God, Jarboe's contributions to the band were placed much more at...
Glorior Belli, "The Great Southern Darkness" Glorior Belli are a black metal band out of France, but they fuse in a lot of other things to their sound. Like, for instance, the opening of this is really kind of a Soundgarden song. But, I'm not...
Fifteen, "Petroleum Distillation" Fifteen is the successor band to Crimpshrine, who were one of the seminal bands of the entire Gilman/Lookout scene in California. Crimpshrine splintered, yielding Operation Ivy, the legendary Cometbus zine, and Fifteen. As you can hear, this is very much right...
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...
