1000 Times Yes

Walking around in the snow and listening to Tom Waits. Now I know what it feels like to be in a Jim Jarmusch movie.

Is music writing going to change drastically this week since thesaurus.com is down?

BEST NEW HORRIFICALLY BLASPHEMOUS MUSIC

108)Rotting Christ/Aealo: Haunting Greek choruses, demented Diamanda rants, martial death chug, a monolith defined.#8.5

107)The Besnard Lakes/Are The Roaring Night: Accomplishes more with a pocket full of Low tricks than Retribution Gospel Choir.#7.5

106)Alan Licht And Loren Connors/Into The Night Sky: Free-guitar prickle wanders into greatness, meanders into boredom.#6

105)Hotrats/Turn Ons: A covers album that adds nothing but power-pop winks and blind jauntiness.#4

i’m writing a passionate, 350-word love letter to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion right now in honor of their hits CD (holla, @aidswolf)

Pobody’s Nerfect Sound Forever

104)Eleh/Location Momentum: Asphyxiating, pulseless, Rothko-like doom-drone that’s as totemic as it is delicate.#7.5