Fifteen, "Petroleum Distillation" Fifteen is the successor band to Crimpshrine, who were one of the seminal bands of the entire Gilman/Lookout scene in California. Crimpshrine splintered, yielding Operation Ivy, the legendary Cometbus zine, and Fifteen. As you can hear, this is very...
Isotope 217, "Kryptonite Smokes The Red Line" Is it post-rock or jazz? Half of the band is from Tortoise, so that's a big post-rock vote. But, they have multiple horns! So, jazz? But Godspeed You! Black Emperor have multiple horns, right?...
The Adjusters, "Armstrong" The Adjusters were a ska/soul act out of Chicago, who managed a couple albums before the ska scene imploded, but hung around with a couple more albums with much more narrow distribution. They also wore their left politics on...
The Pietasters, "Crying Over You" I'm of the opinion that the Pietasters really fell off hard after Oolooloo, driven among other things by Stephen Jackson's vocals getting much more gruff and the band really starting to emphasize rock more...
The Meters, "Funky Miracle" Mostly, when we get a funk track on here, I just pull the textual equivalent of a stink face. "Goddamn," I'll say, or "holy shit" or some other incoherent blurt. It conveys nothing...