Songs That Are Good

Mumblr - Philadelphia (Full of Snakes) Tumblr, meet Mumblr....

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:39:55 -0400

Mumblr - Philadelphia
(Full of Snakes)

Tumblr, meet Mumblr. They combine your twin loves of the 1990s and dudes with their dicks out.

Bedhead - Intents and Purposes (Bedhead 1992-1998) Yup, I guess...

Fri, 15 Aug 2014 08:09:22 -0400

Bedhead - Intents and Purposes
(Bedhead 1992-1998)

Yup, I guess that’s what it takes to pull me back into tumblr. My beloved Bedhead is getting the deluxe reissue treatment. God I hope this is a precursor to a shameless cashgrab reunion tour. If not, at least there’s 2 whole songs in it that I’d never heard before. Horray!

cakdy: Explosions in the Sky || Your Hand in Mine

Fri, 13 Jun 2014 03:50:32 -0400

cakdy:

Explosions in the Sky || Your Hand in Mine

abloodymess: void-head: booooomstrawberries: Melvins-...

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:01:31 -0400

abloodymess:

void-head:

booooomstrawberries:

Melvins- “Amazon"

This is one of my favorite songs of theirs. It’s so ridiculous. I love how the sound is barely held together in parts. It’s easy to see why these guys are underground legends.

I’d say this is the craziest Melvins song, but that’s a pretty bold statement

It is really crushing live too, the duel drums really hit you in the chest during the HEAVY POUNDING parts.

Overseas - Lights Are Gonna Fall (Overseas) As longtime readers...

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:09:00 -0400

Overseas - Lights Are Gonna Fall (Overseas)

As longtime readers (all both of you) may recall, I have a long-standing soft spot for Dallas-bred sonic artisans Matt and Bubba Kadane^[1].

So maybe I am being biased when I proclaim their new album, recorded with likeminded stalwarts David Bazan^[2] and Will Johnson^[3] the most inexplicably overlooked record of the year, but goddamn is it great.

^[1]Of perennial Greatest-Indie-Rock-Band-Too-Indie-For-Anyone-To-Have-Heard-About Bedhead, and Popular-Post-Indie-Band-With-That-One-Song-That-Was-On-That-TV-Show-One-Time The New Year

^[2]Of That-Time-When-‘Christian-Rock’-Was-A-Thing-We-Liked-To-Put-In-'Quotes’-Band Pedro the Lion

^[3]Centro-Matic, which if you’ve heard of you are probably from Texas, and we are friends now

emptythreats: Mogwai // Stop Coming To My House I fell asleep...

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:54:14 -0400

emptythreats:

Mogwai // Stop Coming To My House

I fell asleep yesterday afternoon while listening to Mogwai and this song came up and woke me and I felt really conflicted because why are you so loud song but also wow you are brilliant.

Few things in life are more terrifying than being woken up by the loud part in Like Herod

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Sat, 29 Jun 2013 21:22:41 -0400

So the Kadane brothers (the Bedhead dudes) started a new band...

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 13:19:37 -0400

So the Kadane brothers (the Bedhead dudes) started a new band with David Bazan from Pedro the Lion. That is pretty neat.

Allo Darlin’ - Henry Rollins Don’t DanceHenry...

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:21:02 -0400

Allo Darlin’ - Henry Rollins Don’t Dance
Henry Rollins Don’t Dance

They say Twee is dead.

They say that Pop music is just Pop music, and what the masses were listening to was where the Olympians and Sarah-Recordsians were heading to all along. That the whole idea of ‘Indie-Pop’ was just uptight hipsters not wanting to admit that sometimes it’s nice to listen to a dumb fun tune and shake what their respective Mama’s done gave them, and that because of our dourness we all missed out on the gospel of Robert Kelly and the Punks Daft. That we need to keep up with Kanye and weirdly-sexy-Hannah-Montana or get left behind.

Fuck that shit, here’s a bunch of British faerie-folk namechecking Black Flag, Fugazi, Dirty Dancing and the Grease Goddamned Megamix like it’s 1988.

Pixies - Bagboy (???????) Hm. So I guess that’s what the...

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 05:10:27 -0400

Pixies - Bagboy

(???????)

Hm.

So I guess that’s what the whole “Kim Deal quits the Pixies” thing was about?

The Replacements - 20th Century Boy (Boink!! Bootleg) In...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:30:39 -0500

The Replacements - 20th Century Boy
(Boink!! Bootleg)

In addition to many, many other things, The Replacements happened to be the greatest cover band that ever did live.

(Your narrator may have spent the last evening with this and a bottle of whiskey)

we-built-this-come-death: Mission of Burma - That’s When I...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:01:01 -0500

we-built-this-come-death:

Mission of Burma - That’s When I Reach for My Revolver

slicingeyeballs: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to release new...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:59:16 -0500

slicingeyeballs:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to release new album ‘Push the Sky Away’ in February | DETAILS

cargohoo: Sonic Youth - Death Valley ‘69

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:00:27 -0400

cargohoo:

Sonic Youth - Death Valley ‘69

Metz - Rats (Metz) There have been a number of bands doing the...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 13:30:27 -0400

Metz - Rats
(Metz)

There have been a number of bands doing the Jesus-Lizard/Amphetamine-Reptile-type-thing recently, but only a few of them seem to have figured out the secret to doing it right. You see, as gleefully insane as records like Goat sounded, they were meticulously constructed (it shouldn’t be surprising Duane Denison is classically trained). Luckily for us Metz is in on the secret, and have taken it close to heart.

taryninstereo: Tim Hecker - “I’m Transmitting Tonight” (Radio...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:26:05 -0400

taryninstereo:

Tim Hecker - “I’m Transmitting Tonight” (Radio Amor)

This one’s for the media outlets with working transmitters on the East Coast.

Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel [Country Angel...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:30:21 -0400

Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel [Country Angel Version]
(More Songs About Buildings And Food, 2005 Re-issue)

Unclassifiable super-geniuses Talking Heads are one of the few Important Bands whose endless reissues, remasters, compilations, box sets, rarity collections, bootlegs, concert DVDs and secret radio transmissions that can only heard by people with dental work done in Soviet Russia in the late 1970’s are totally, 100% worth tracking down and spending all your money on. Also, read David Byrne’s book, it is excellent.

360degreemusic: Seattle’s best kept secret, Police Teeth (...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 08:56:34 -0400

360degreemusic:

Seattle’s best kept secret, Police Teeth ( James Burns: vocals/guitar - Chris Rasmussen: vocals/bass - Richy Boyer: drums), have just released their sophomore, self titled album on Latest Flame Records. This noisy (and by their own admission), sweaty, mustache wearing 3 piece who been compared with Les Savy Fav and the Thermals are in the middle of a mini tour of the USA.

Check out their video from the the album, Emmanuelle In Renton.

Police Teeth are the best

augustninetythree: PUPS Seems like Rose Melberg of Tiger Trap,...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:51:38 -0400

augustninetythree:

PUPS

Seems like Rose Melberg of Tiger Trap, The Softies, Go Sailor, etc has started a new Vancouver based band called PUPS. I’m stoked, hopefully they start playing shows soon. I would love to see Rose perform in person, and the rest of the band too of course, but yeah.

As of now you can listen to two songs on their bandcamp.

Exciting times!

newspeedwayboogie: Jason Molina - Heart My Heart New music...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:47:36 -0400

newspeedwayboogie:

Jason Molina - Heart My Heart

New music from Jason Molina (well, older music recently released), which serves to fill our Molina jones, which by now is pretty deep. This feels like an acoustic demo - it very much is - but captures Molina at his best, most rootless wandering. Come back soon Jason, please.