Sometimes, this music is awesome.
Bim Skala Bim, "Sunshine of Your Love"
Bim Skala Bim enjoyed covering classic rock warhorses over their career, songs which are really kind of ideal targets for this kind of thing. Any dork who will get upset about a cheeky cover of Cream...
竹村延和 (Takemura Nobukazu), "Meteor"
This is from his 2000 release, Sign, and is the outro piece after the 35-minute "Souvenir in Chicago". A thing I really like about this is the texture of the sounds, a lot of them are stretched,...
Pinegrove, "Darkness (acoustic)"
After a very good and well-received second album (Cardinal), Pinegrove ran into some serious problems that derailed the band after accusations surfaced about Evan Hall. It was a messy situation that Hall and the band tried to handle head-on, eventually...
Prince Paul, "A Prince Among Thieves"
Hearing this song out of context, the climax/punchline of Prince Paul's briliant album A Prince Among Thieves, really is kind of jarring. It makes so much sense in the original context but is a...
Rocket From The Crypt, "Good Bye"
RFTC almost in a Smashing Pumpkins kind of mode here. Can't decide which band would be more insulted by that comparison.
Señor Coconut, "Pisco Control (Jive Electico)"
Señor Coconut's album of...