Michael Kiwanuka, "Black Man In A White World" Kiwanuka's second album, Love & Hate, is an ambitious album that roams all over the R&B and soul maps, unafraid to stretch out the songs, play with lush arrangements, and challenge...
Primitive Man, "Loathe" Primitive Man is very aptly named, a knuckle-dragging sludge/doom act from Denver, putting out punishing, bleak records that are unsubtle in the extreme. This little ditty comes from Home Is Where The Hatred Is, an EP from 2015 that...
The Pietasters, "Without You" You know, for a dude who claims to not like live albums, I sure have a lot of live albums. The Pietasters only have one good studio album, Oolooloo, but it's tremendous. I bought this album because...
Windhand, "Halcyon" Windhand are usually categorized as playing doom metal, which is to say that they kind of follow in the footsteps of Black Sabbath or at least Sleep. There's aspects of the sound here which really kind of blur into...
Happy birthday to the most important listener/reader of Five Songs! YES, YOU. The Pixies, "Where Is My Mind?" I'm not sure a week doesn't go by where Dave Lovering's entry into this song doesn't...