MC Paul Barman, "UNDOING ALONENESS" Back when MC Paul Barman was just getting going, I remember a lot of thinkpieces coming out about him. Lots of descriptors for him describing him as smart or whatever in a way that in retrospect just strikes me as...
Pixies, "Dead" I was going to make a "ooh, another Lost 90's Gem" joke here, as if anybody has ever forgotten the Pixies. And then I remembered, no, this album came out in 1989. Time is an illusion. Jamire Williams, "Dos Au Soleil" This is...
The Young Fresh Fellows, "A Fake Hello" Tad Hutchinson is really going the extra mile on the drums here. He doesn't have to, Scott McCaughey's singing can carry this little tune. But Hutchinson was always the Fellows' secret weapon, I love his work across the...
Uzeda, "Female" You know, there's more than a little similarity between Uzeda and the Dog Faced Hermans. There's no personnel connection between them, but there's a shared space of a kind of arty noise rock. Excellent stuff. Squirrel Bait, "Kick the Cat" No! Squirrel Bait,...
John Oswald, "Btls (Marco Integer)" Chopping up the Beatles is really playing with fire, copyright-wise. It's powerful source material, of course, so I'm glad he went for it. But you know, there's a reason this stuff was so hard to find for a while. The...
