Along with Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo, Bailter Space makes noise beautiful. I wish I knew how they did it.
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I’m in bed, sleeping, but this will get posted an hour before I get to the computer. Ain’t modern tech wonderful? This is one of my favorite songs from last year. This band is finally getting some coverage stateside.
I heard Glenn Branca once played a concert that was so loud it cracked the foundation of the building hosting the event. It sounds apocryphal to me, but it’s damn cool if it’s true. But this song is surprisingly beautiful.
You know, future dating stuff is kind of like cheating. But fun, fun cheating. Here is a great b-side by Swervedriver. It’s a great song, and the word “skyline” is one of my favorite words in the English language.
One of the funkier songs (and bands) from the otherwise soulless and sexless early 90s. Though I guess indie rock is usually sexless because “sex with women is sexist” (imagine that said by an angry woman with a nagging tone of voice). Whatever. Anyway, on with the show!
I’ve loved this song for a while now, but just now discovered they had a video for it. Great song, and the girls are super cute. And this video is really hilarious and great in that 80s kind of way.
I’ve never done drugs, but I can nearly smell the LSD wafting off this song. Does LSD have a smell? Oh well, I can smell it anyhow. Really great song, this.
I wanted to include something by Belly, but thanks to Warner Brothers I can’t. Stupid “embedding disabled by request” But hey, here’s another great Tanya Donnelley moment: And as a bonus, a song from the same album sang by Kristin Hersh.
Ah, a song from 1995, the year I graduated high school. Also my first full year on the internet. I always dug 90s chick rock. Funny fact about this band — the first time I was ever flamed online was because I misspelled their name. It’s a crime, ya know. It wasn’t my most embarrassing […]
