Big day today! This marks a full year of perfect updating. That's 1,825 songs, plus a few duplicates (which I don't say much about). I write a little paragraph for each of these things, most of the time. Sometimes a...
Screeching Weasel, "The First Day of Winter" Another cut from Television City Dream, which as far as I know is the last Screeching Weasel album (it absolutely is not). I'm kind of hard on Screeching Weasel in this space, but you...
Queens of the Stone Age, "Un-Reborn Again" This comes from the most recent QotSA album, Villains, where they worked with producer Mark Ronson. The result is a little bit of a different feel to things. It's a slick, glossy record, full...
Sloan, "Deeper Than Beauty" Sloan are a rarity, a band who clearly should have been big in America, but instead settled for a long and celebrated career in Canada. This stuff, really smart power pop, absolutely could have broken through at basically any...
Mantar, "Eternal Return" I long ago ran out of stuff to say about Mantar, so let's just have a close listen to this. The shift up to the double-time drums fifty seconds in is nice. And a nice change in the...
