Circus Lupus, "Pop Man"
Post hardcore band Circus Lupus put out two albums in the early nineties, and I probably don't have to mention that this is a Discord album. The most obvious feature is Chris Thomson's rambling, half-shouted/...
Bim Skala Bim, "Set Me Up"
This is another one of those songs that has a tremendous sense of place about it in my memory. This came out early in 1995, in my last year of college, and my friend Miranda and I...
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...