The Avalanches, "The Divine Chord" A thing I admire about Johnny Marr (who guested on this song) is that he's cheerfully helped on about a zillion things in his post-Smiths career, and they're pretty all over the map. And...
Hüsker Dü, "Divide and Conquer" A thing that is easy to forget about Hüsker Dü is how ridiculously productive they were in their salad days. Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, and Flip Your Wig all came out within a 14 month period, a...
Senyawa, "Menuju Muara" Indonesia duo Senyawa are avant garde in just about every possible way. They play homemade instruments. The music is experimental. The album was released by a bunch of different labels across the globe with no ownership rights to any of...
Ed Hall, "Luke Flukenstock" After yesterday, it's nice to get some noise rock in here to offset that kind of thing. Variety is the spice of life, after all, and around here, loud rock is salt. Uh, or something like that....
The Miracles, "You've Really Got A Hold On Me" Even over the course of just a few years (this is from 1962), the Motown sound evolved very rapidly. That's not to say anything wrong with this, it's...