Sometimes, this music is awesome.
Blue Scholars, "Cornerstone" The lead-in to the The Long March EP, this really tells you what to expect on this record. And, honestly, this is an extremely generous EP - 9 tracks, 35 minutes, that's plenty of material for a full...
Panopticon, "Bodies Under The Falls" This is one of the three epic (10+ minute) songs on Kentucky, where Panopticon really lets the black metal blast out. But even among the fury, he takes the time to have that interlude in the middle. It&...
Willie Nelson, "Are You Sure" We've had a couple tracks from this record, which is Crazy, The Demo Sessions. Every time it comes up, I'm reminded how much I like this, and then I go look at his discography,...
9353, "East of Sudan" This is really pretty avant-garde for the punk scene of 1984. I mean, sure, there were plenty of post-punk bands working in kind of adjacent spaces, but this is still pretty far out there. Imarhan, "Ehad Wa Dagh&...
The Emotions, "My Honey And Me" This comes to us from early in the third phase of Stax Records' life, after they reached an arrangement with CBS Records. This period still contains plenty of fantastic songs, but Stax was also on a...
