The Budos Band, "Ghost Walk" The Budos Band are brilliant, always worth listening to, but they don't always do cool. This song, though, is so smooth and cool, a standout from their brilliant first album. Squarepusher, "Nux Vomica" Burningn'n Tree is a collection of Squarepusher's...
Noisem, "Birthing the Bestial" A lot of what I like about thrash are when you've got really chunky, memorable riffs and some pyrotechnic squalling solos. So I ought to love this, right? But I dunno, it's fine. I don't really reach for it. I think...
Bim Skala Bim, "Sunshine of Your Love" Bim Skala Bim enjoyed covering classic rock warhorses over their career, songs which are really kind of ideal targets for this kind of thing. Any dork who will get upset about a cheeky cover of Cream of Pink...
The NY Citizens, "Brooklyn's On Fire" That is some Saturday Night Live-ass horn work on this tune. Oh, this is the first time we've had them, huh? The NY Citizens were a pretty early band in the third wave of ska, so this was all...
They Might Be Giants, "Can't Keep Jonny Down" John Linnell is probably my favorite songwriter ever, and so it means a lot when I say that "Some dude / Hitting golf balls on the moon / Bathroom in his pants / And he thinks he's better than me"...
