Morrissey has no qualms dragging otherwise respectable imprint names into the mud. When he signed to Sanctuary a decade or so back, they allowed him to revive the dormant Attack label which before then consisted of reggae acts like I-Roy and Big Youth. Odd choice from someone who wrote "Reggae is Vile" in a music…

The Love Movement is the hip-hop version of the Smiths' Strangeways, Here We Come. Both times, the writing was on the wall it was the swan song for each group, and neither act had the energy or comradarie to come up with something that would compare to the rest of their catalog. By the same token, it was still streets…

He also appeared on the Plug 1 and Plug 2 album First Serve. I find that such an incredibly slept on album, and it shows Pos and Dave as lyrically adept as ever. Obviously, a new De La album would be preferable, but you take what you can get.

If Kanye was REALLY trying to capture the zeigeist of the modern rap world, he should have given "back from the dead" Tim Dog a few bars.

I go back and forth or whether Phoenix's finest hour is Never Been or their debut United. United is (cue irony alert!) all over the place: glam rock riffs, euro disco, garage rock, and whatever on Earth "Funky Squaredance" is. Yet there's a naive charm and eagnerness that's slathered all over it. Never Been has more…

QOTSA has a bunch on Songs For the Deaf (irony duly noted.)
My favorite?
"All death metal, all the time!" (Alllllll the tiiiiiiiiiiiimmme!)

But it does premiere on memorial Day weekend, so I presume a lot of people will have that Monday off. I have it on good authority army has a half-day.

The thing about Hunt and Tony Sales is they also played with Todd Rundgren back in the 70s. So it wasn't Bowie being random for randomness sake.

Yeah, that was probably their peak, b/c Eight Legged Groove Machine is hit and miss (although the hits — "No for the 13th time", "Unbearable" and "A Wish Away" — trump most on Hup.) Once they got to Never Loved Elvis, they started to lose their swagger. The greatest hits "If The Beatles Read Hunter" is pretty ace all…

I always lumped Ned's in with Senseless Things, Terrorvision, Mega City Four and my personal fave The Wonder Stuff. All seemed to blossom in the era of British guitar rock past the post-punk salad days, but were too loud/unfashionable to really mix in with the Britpop of the early-mid 90s.

The first time I heard "Machu Piccu" I was excited Supergrass had a new song out.

Even before Josh brought up the matter, I would always say my 3 favorites Strokes albums of the 2000s are (from best to worst) Room on Fire, Is This It, and Phoenix's It's Never Been Like That.

4AD put out a good number of comps. I also remember "All Virgos Are Mad" and even the comp that was sponsored (?) by Doc Martens called "Shoe Pie." Always good to see love for Kristin Hersh — she's put out a staggering amount of worthwhile material (Muses, solo and also 50 Foot Wave) and her memoir-of-sorts "Rat Girl"…

All comments on the music aside, you have to admire Mike Joyce jubilantly breaking Indie Rock Fashion commandment number 1: Never Wear Thy Own Band's Merch. 

The lead singer of Semisonic (I think that's what you were trying to say) has become a hot shot co-writer of note for Dixie Chicks, Keith Urban, Pink and Taylor Swift as well as co-writing 3 songs on that Adele CD 21. So yeah, between him and 4 Non-Blondes' Linda Perry, some of the '90s alt-rock heroes still make some…