100 Greatest songs of the 20’s So Far #91 Protomartyr – Michigan Hammers

Released: 2020 In the flesh Joe Casey cuts an unlikely figure for someone who leads a band as seminal as … More

100 Greatest Song of the 60’s #25 The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog

Released: 1969 As with any success, punk rock has many fathers. Famously notable in it’s lineage are Bowie, the New … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #37 Jackie Wilson – (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

Released:1967 Everybody’s got to start somewhere. For struggling Detroit songwriter Berry Gordy, that beginning was with a singer called Jackie … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #55 MC5 – Kick Out The Jams

Released: 1969 The MC5’s guitarist Wayne Kramer summed up the challenge of putting lightning back in the bottle when talking … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 60’s #65 The Contours – Do You Love Me?

Released: 1962 Sometimes you’ve just got to let it all go. In the early part of the decade pop was … More

Protomartyr – Formal Growth In The Desert review

The idea of Protomartyr front man Joe Casey singing a love song seems that outlandish that the year can surely … More

The White Stripes – Greatest Hits review

There was always something very primal about The White Stripes, whether it was black/red, brother/sister, man/wife, spark/flame, or whatever. It’s … More