I don’t need to explain Fugazi, right? Right.
Audio
Titus Andronicus’ The Monitor got a good amount of rotation when it came out a few years ago, but “The Battle of Hampton Roads” came up on shuffle today and goddamn if it didn’t strike a chord. Pour yourself a shot of bourbon on the rocks, relax, and take in the entirety of this epic song.
This song speaks to me on so many levels.
Short and sweet one by the real most interesting man in the universe.
Swift begins “The Bully” with an emphatic “hey buddy…” and ends it two and a half minutes later with a like-minded “…jackass”, and never lets up in between. One of my favorite songs by the producer and touring member of both The Black Keys and The Shins.
I can’t tell you how many aimless strolls through random Balkan towns were soundtracked by Air France’s No Way Down EP a few years ago. This song was their masterpiece. RIP.
I watched “The Punk Singer” over the weekend (you should do the same), and thus have spent the last few days reacquainting myself with Miss Hanna’s artistic output. I can’t play this one on the radio, so it made sense to throw it up as my song of the day instead.
From last year’s Sonic Bloom, which is still getting heavy play on my iPod. The entire second half of the album crushes, but it all comes to a head on closer “The New World”. Best experienced live, if you get the chance.
People tend to lump Codeine in with the slowcore movement, but I always thought they came off a lot more sinister than Low and their ilk. Exhibit A is “Cigarette Machine” off of Frigid Stars, which wouldn’t sound out of place on Spiderland or some of the other stuff coming out of Louisville at the time.
Chugging noise rock from Atlanta’s Whores. I regretfully missed them when they played Pittsburgh a few months ago, so we’ll all just have to live vicariously through this video of the band burning through the song live: