Dr. Dre, "Mix Tape 2 Track 1" My understanding is that this is from a mix tape that Dre used to sell at the Compton Swap Meet, which eventually made its way onto the internet. I've got three of these things,...
The Beatles, "Let It Be" When I find myself with no ideas / struggling to write a blog / I fall back on dumb jokes / mail it in TWRP, "Only the Best" OK, I don't love those lyrics there, but in...
Uzeda, "Female" You know, there's more than a little similarity between Uzeda and the Dog Faced Hermans. There's no personnel connection between them, but there's a shared space of a kind of arty noise rock. Excellent stuff....
I never write checks, so this blog is the only thing that I write the wrong year on after the calendar filps over. Marvin Gaye, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" A stone-cold classic. Polyrhythmics, "Cosimo" A lovely EP from 2020,...
Vertigo, "Sit Down and Shut Up" Psychedelic noise rockers Vertigo had one final EP in 1993, Driver #43, which might have been their best single release. By this point, they were playing pretty tight, and everything was really hitting. It's a...
