Felt, "Bass For Your Truck" Repeat! The Smiths, "Is It Really So Strange?" I really need to get to the point where my kid can have visitors again, because I really want to try and mortify them by singing along to...
Tar, "G7" Well, I just mentioned Amphetamine Reptile Records the other day! Here's one of my favorite bands from that label, but in their post-AmRep days. They put out two albums and an EP on AmRep and then left to put...
Andrew Bird, "You Woke Me Up!" A companion piece to Noble Beast, Useless Creatures is an all-instrumental exploration which allows Bird to indulge his more exploratory impulses. As always, everything Bird does is interesting, but this is not one of his more loveable...
Wasted Shirt, "Double the Dream" Wasted Shirt is Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) and Ty Segall, playing the sort of demented noise duo rock that Chippendale in particular is known for. There's only one album of it, called Fungus II, but it&...
Eggs, "The Government Administrator" Eggs was one of the Teenbeat bands, making indie pop at a time when that was pretty uncommon, running straight against the current of grunge and heavy rock that was dominating taste at the time. A lot of these...