Slant 6, "Semi-Blue Tile" Why do we make songs longer than a minute? What's the point? Weezer, "Smile" OK, this track is from something called Blue / Green / Red, and I swear to you, I did not get this album from anywhere. I wouldn't do that...
Ex Hex, "Hot and Cold" There's an extremely 80s feel to Ex Hex. I get a false sense memory of sitting in the back of Monza when we pick up the college radio station at Washington State University, and being intrigued by hearing something a...
Nitzer Ebb, "Control I'm Here" That Total Age was more towards the industrial end of industrial dance, with more clanking machines in the sound, and Showtime found them pushing a little more melody in things and varying their arrangements more. This comes from the album...
Hooray, Five Songs! Uncle Tupelo, "Graveyard Shift" If you type the words "Uncle Tupelo" into a blog twice within an hour of midnight, it summons the band. Or so I'm led to believe by the worst horror story in the world, "Attack Of The Alt-Country...
Pretty good one today! Cop Shoot Cop, "All the Clocks are Broken" One of the things that set Cop Shoot Cop apart from the other acts they were usually lumped with, often other industrial bands, was that Tod Ashley was never afraid to deploy some...
