Eddie Floyd, "My Girl" The soul artists of the 60s and 70s went ahead and just covered each other, including even covering truly huge songs. Songs don't really get bigger than "My Girl", but that didn't stop...
Black Moon, "Enta da Stage" Black Moon's 1993 classic, Enta da Stage, could not have been released at a worse time to get attention. The synthesis of the jazz-inflected beats of Native Tongues and the street rhymes of New York City...
Xasthur, "Purgatory Spiral" Another track from Xasthur, the weird experimental metal act that I ended up with courtesy of a Hydra Head grab bag. It's not really, uh, my bag. Converge, "Sadness Comes Home" All We Love We Leave...
Eddie Floyd, "Don't Tell Your Mama (Where You've Been)" We Love Song Titles (With Parentheticals)! The Books, "Smells Like Content" Can I engage in some old-fart bloviating? Of course I can, nobody else has the password to...
Valentine Six, "Always Is My Name" Here's a little bit of an oddball. Valentine Six put out one album in 1997, full of this kind of lounge-y sort of thing. Clearly more than a little Tom Waits in the DNA here,...
