Hepcat, "The Secret" The first Hepcat record found the band hitting their first-wave ska sounds right out of the gate. They'd keep moving in this direction with later records, growing more assured as they went, and creating lusher arrangements. But all...
They Might Be Giants, "I Love You For Psychological Reasons" Another tune from the big Dial-a-Song year of 2015, when they revived the old service and kept it going every week. Most of those songs got retooled a bit and re-recorded for a...
The Dramatics, "In the Rain" A repeat, but happy to listen to it again. Dirty Three, "Last Horse on the Sand" Dirty Three are an instrumental post-rock band out of Australia, distinguished primarily by being led by a violinist. I'...
The Garbage & The Flowers, "Carousel" This is from a comp from the Twisted Village label (Deep Funnels of Entry) featuring a bunch of the psych rock bands the label had. I don't even know who was the most famous of...
Can, "Mushroom" Can is the sort of band that intolerable rock dorks will never shut up about, but frustratingly, they're also right about them. Tago Mago is a double-album, stuffed full of hypnotic rhythms, oddball sounds, plenty of shout-singing, and stretched...