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Five Songs, 4/21/2022

Skavoovie & the Epitones, "Blood Red Sky" We had the Skatalites yesterday, and now we hear another take on the genre thirty years later. And you know what? This stuff whips also, horns rule. Olivelawn, "Hate" San Diego's Olivelawn released a couple albums in the early...

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Five Songs, 2/28/2022

Another month in the books! Still hanging in there on the daily grind, but it's definitely been a little more wobbly. Leprous, "Alleviate" Like clockwork, Leprous puts out a record every other year, and with each passing album, they just get more and more theatrical....

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Five Songs, 1/27/2022

Freddie Gibbs, "Careless" Freddie Gibbs came off the triumphant Piñata, an album-length collaboration with Madlib, riding high. For his follow-up, Shadow of a Doubt, he worked with a variety of producers, and while the production is solid, it's really all about Gibbs and his rhymes....

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Five Songs, 5/9/2021

The Decemberists, "Billy Liar" I think I still like Her Majesty, the Decemberists the best of their records. At least some of that is the halo effect of it being the first album of theirs that I picked up. I had skipped Castaways and Cutouts...

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Five Songs, 3/10/2021

Bell Witch, "Suffocation, A Burial: I - Awoken (Breathing Teeth)" First things first, that is a MAGNIFICENT name for a metal song. A roman numeral, a parenthetical, just all kinds of extra junk. Spectacular. At any rate, the other day I referred to Pallbearer as...