Boris, "Spoon"
2011 was an insanely productive year for Boris, with four albums showing up that year, all of them being unusual in some way from their standard. To the extent that Boris has a standard. Anyway, this is from New Album, which...
Boris, "Furi"
The first Boris album I encountered was Akuma No Uta after reading a good review of it online somewhere, and I was blown away. To have "Introduction" get followed by two absolute rippers like "Ibitsu" and today&...
Lucious Jackson, "Strongman"
When the Beastie Boys took the leap to playing their own instruments with Check Your Head, they also started expanding the reach of their label, Grand Royal. Lucious Jackson was one of the artists that they signed, putting out their...
Today!
Goldfinger, "Answers"
I was all set to make fun of Goldfinger here as a bunch of flash-in-the-pan trend chasers, as their 1996 debut (which has this song) hit in 1996 right around the commercial peak of the third wave, and this album...
Here's today.
Benton Falls, "Trail and Terror"
I've always been a little fuzzy on the genre "emo". I'm old enough that it's come around multiple times as a genre label, being applied to...