St. Vincent – Pay Your Way In Pain
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May 26, 2021
The Fixx – Reach the Beach (1983)
I am sure you have heard the song One Thing Leads to Another by The Fixx. Who hasn't? And maybe you've heard the other single called Saved By Zero, but probably not. On the surface, The Fixx seems a lot like a one hit wonder band that doesn't require anything more than an occasional spin of the well known track(s). You'd be mistaken to…
April 24, 2021
Dinosaur Jr. – Sweep It Into Space
About everyone who listened to the radio in the mid-1990s has heard Feel the Pain by Dinosaur Jr. but probably not much else. They went through some career ups and downs, but they are back now, rocking, and pretty old. You can't deny the guitar virtuosity of J. Mascis, and his tortured vocals are pretty good, too. Lou Barlow, also from Folk Implosion, plays…
April 23, 2021
Field Music – Flat White Moon
Field Music is a British band I've been listening to for awhile. They are very stylistically all over the place. I usually just say Indie Rock, because it's too hard to get into the details. This album, Flat White Moon, is a romping good time of Indie Rock. The song Not When You're In Love has such a fun rhythm to it. It's like…
April 23, 2021
The Prize Fighter Inferno – The City Introvert
Claudio Sanchez, the lead singer/guitarist for Coheed & Cambria, has a solo side project called The Prize Fighter Inferno. The first Prize Fighter album, My Brother's Blood Machine, came out in 2006 as a kind of acoustic electro, weirdly folk album. It was meant to be kind of a side story to the grandiose sci-fi story being told with Coheed & Cambria's music and…
April 23, 2021
The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
While De-Loused in the Comatorium was a great first album, The Mars Volta decided to discard any sort of formula and re-invent their own wheel by asking the question: "What if we make a 5-song concept album about a drug addict in search of his biological parents?" Turns out they wanted it to be 6 songs, but CDs couldn't hold all of it, so…
March 27, 2021
Death From Above 1979 – Is 4 Lovers
I wasn't ready for this. I knew Death From Above 1979 had a new album coming soon, but I didn't know it was today. Holy hell was this a welcome surprise. I've been listening to these guys since the early 2000s when their sound was a welcome change. The best way I can describe it is fast fuzzy dirt. They bring a special kind…
March 26, 2021
The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
From the ashes of the punk/emo band At the Drive-In rose the phoenix of The Mars Volta, the prog rock brainchild of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. In 2003, they released this, their first album and hoo boy was no one ready for it. The energy and extreme rocking still crushes to this day. It's got bass work from Flea of the Red Hot…
March 20, 2021