Just a quick one today, Five Songs is on the road! Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, "You Spin Me Round '86" Surf-ish instrumental band Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet are probably best known as the band who did the theme...
Shuffle is trying to make me look dumb today. It probably succeeded. Channels, "Mercury" Channels is basically impossible to search YouTube for. Well, it was only a few days ago we first encountered them, so hopefully you all remember them well. This song...
Make! The most! Of my! Toe toast! Hey, while we're giggling over this first Descendents track, a Five Songs correspondent pointed out the existence of this masterpiece, which is really breathtaking. Descendents, "Enjoy" A couple albums into the Descendents' snotty...
Kind of distant and/or futuristic there for a while, until we hit the last song. Sigur Rós, "Untitled 8" Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Rós make long, abstract songs that pretty much all sound like the soundtrack to something. Despite this theoretically being...
Today's tunes. The Nation of Ulysses, "Maniac Dragstrip" There's a search for authenticity in rock music that goes back decades, where bands are judged to be real or poseurs based on a variety of markers, many of which make...
