Sometimes, this music is awesome.
Michael Kiwwanuka, "Rule the World" There are times, doing this, that I feel like a real fraud. Who am I to be writing this stuff up? I'm not a musician, I'm not a writer, I have no training in...
Dead Kennedys, "Moon over Marin" The closer to the second Kennedys album, Plastic Surgery Disasters, it's one of those anthemic songs that the Kennedys would occasionally turn out. This is actually about as accessible as they ever got, although there'...
Wilco, "Bright Leaves" Wilco returned from hiatus for 2019's Ode to Joy, although their hiatus only lasted three years, which is like a normal inter-album pause for many bands. Anyway, the album kind of feels like it's looped back...
Mary Wells, "You Beat Me To The Punch" Lots of Mary Wells recently, which is OK by me! Olivia Tremor Control, "The Opera House" Music From The Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle is one of the key documents of...
The Ocean, "Bathyalpelagic I: Impasses" You know, I think the zone is actually bathypelagic, not bathyalpelagic. Come on The Ocean, get your shit together! Claw Hammer, "Succotash" Jon Wahl really has one of the unique voices in rock, and certainly in...
