The True Loves, "Kabuki" Soul band from beautiful Seattle, this was one of those occasional finds from when I found myself trapped in a vehicle without Bluetooth and heard something good on KEXP. (Specifically, a U-Haul I was driving from Kingston to Bainbridge...
Pop Will Eat Itself, "Bulletproof!" After the anarchic fun of Cure For Sanity, which got some popular attention particularly on dance floors, their followup (The Looks or the Lifestyle) came out the next year trying to cash in on the popularity. But while...
Mission of Burma, "Red" Signals, Calls, and Marches, the 1981 debut EP from Mission of Burma, is one of the foundational texts of what was known as college rock and eventually became indie rock. It's a touchstone that many, many following...
Clipse, "Virginia" As always, the real attraction of the first Clipse record isn't so much their rhymes, which are fine, but that lovely "produced by the Neptunes" label. And, yeah, this is great. The Mortals, "Everything But Time&...
Chuck D, "Generation Wrekkked" In 1996, Chuck D released his first solo record, Autobiography of Mistachuck, which differs from a Public Enemy record primarily in that Flavor Flav wasn't involved at all. Because Chuck D was always part of the Bomb...