Yo-Yo Ma, "Suite no. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: III. Courante" I don't know shit about any of this, but I have to say: that song title looks like something from a prog-metal band's record. Built To Spill,...
Yo-Yo Ma, "Suite no. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010: I. Prélude" These pieces, which come up occasionally, really don't make a lot of sense in isolation. Shuffle is good at some things - surprises, shaking up your routine, serendipity -...
John Coltrane, "Naima" I often feel inadequate on this blog. My words are woefully insufficient to describe so many of the beautiful songs we get on here. Writing about music is hard, even for somebody good at it. Writing about it for an...
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...
Leatherface, "Scheme of Things" UK punk band Leatherface play it pretty much straight ahead, but they do a nice job with it. The thing that's hard to adjust to is Frankie Stubbs's voice, which is rough, to put it...
