I've missed a couple of days due to life, so here's a few songs by the Melvins (see also this fan site).

Honey Bucket
You've Never Been Right
Youth of America
If I Had An Exorcism

I've categorized this band as stoner rock, but they can also qualify as a form of metal or grunge. If you like any form of heavier rock, then you're sure to like them. If you've yet to hear them, I highly recommend you find an album or two ((a) Senile Animal, their current, is a great start!). If you buy from amazon, check out the 2nd and 3rd page in the "store" link on the left.

Today's Dozer - "From Fire Fell". It's on their 2005 album, Through the Eyes of Heathens.

This song is just really good. Unfortunately, it's only a little over two and a half minutes long.

There's a band called 3, and they have a song called "Trust", which is on an album called Wake Pig that you can preview on their myspace.

The song has an interesting flow to it that you'll find appealing for sure - the singer has an interestingly feminine voice for a guy, but nevertheless knows what he's doing.

I saw the band Battles over the weekend, and a very unexpected highlight of the show was the song "Race: In" (you can also preview the song in the first minute and 23 seconds of this video). It's been stuck in my head since. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

I listened to this song at least 20 times this past day, so today's song must be The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's song "I Could Be An Angle" from their 2004 album, Royal Society.

Today Monster Magnet's new album 4-Way Diablo comes out in the US. You can listen to the first five tracks of the album on Monster Magnet's myspace. I can't recommend this band enough, so just do it so I don't have to repeatedly post about them the way I already have of other bands.

If you've never heard Monster Magnet before, I recommend the song "Cyclone", and then going over to "Wall of Fire". Both songs are familiar to their current (last nine years) sound while showing some elements of what they were like on older albums. The title song "4-Way Diablo" has a more catchy, bouncy style than you'd expect from the band, but nevertheless is pretty good as well. They are not on their myspace, but I really like "2000 Light Years From Home" (Rolling Stones cover) and "Freeze and Pixelate" as well.

In short, buy it. Even if it's not what you expect, you'll grow to love it.

Isis - "Not In Rivers, But In Drops". This band has a myspace, you can listen to a handful of their songs in the media section of their website, and you can buy their albums on amazon. This particular song is on the album In The Absence of Truth. These guys don't have much for stage presence, but here's a good live version of the song as well.

The song sounds best really loud.

"Another Fourth of July... Ruined". If you've never heard Big Business before, you need to go check them out. This song is off the album Here Come The Waterworks, which might as well be immaculate. I could recommend other songs off the album, but "Another Fourth" really caught me the first time I listened to it, and I think it would do the same for anyone.

Upon a google search, I found that you can stream this song over at paper thin walls.

I'm sick. I'll update again when I'm not, but in the meantime... here are some cliche sickness related songs in mostly visual format.

Queens Of The Stone Age - Medication
Queens Of The Stone Age - Sick Sick Sick
Alice In Chains - Sickman
Fiona Apple - Tymps (The Sick In The Head Song)
Witchcraft - Hey Doctor
A Perfect Circle - The Nurse Who Loved Me
Shandi's Addiction - Calling Dr. Love
mewithoutyou - The Cure For Pain
The Knife - Is It Medicine
Monster Magnet - Medicine
Garbage - Medication
Morphine - Cure For Pain
Candlebox - Happy Pills

I'm not fully better yet, but let me describe to you how I've been feeling in song format:

Mastodon - "Mother Puncher"

The song comes from the album Remission. I prefer their other albums as a whole, but the song is worth your time for sure.

A Perfect Circle - "Gravity". If you don't know or don't have the song, it's currently 89 cents over at amazon.com. Go get it.

Lyrics:
Lost again, broken and weary, unable to find my way
Tail in hand, dizzy and clearly unable to just let this go

I am surrendering to gravity and the unknown
Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live.

I fell again, like a baby, unable to stand on my own
Tail in hand, dizzy and clearly unable to just let this go

I am surrendering to gravity and the unknown
Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live...
I choose to live...
I choose to live...
Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
Help me survive the bottom

Calm these hands before they snare another pill
and drive another nail down another needy hole
Please release me...

I am surrendering to the gravity and the unknown
Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live...
I choose to live.

You are now being introduced to the band with the most pretentious name in the world: !!!. Louden Up Now isn't my favorite album by them, but it contains my favorite song by them: "Pardon My Freedom". Even if you don't enjoy electronic or dance music, you will probably enjoy the song for its vast appreciation of words that would offend your grandma. I suggest you find and download the song somehow for sampling because this band is an "acquired taste".

Some of the lyrics:
And you can tell the President to suck my fucking dick
Does that sound intelligent? Like I give a fucking frick
Tell the FBI put me on the list because Lennon wasn't this dangerous
Call the Christians, tell them all that I'm taller than Jesus
They tore down the parking lot and put in a parking lot and what do they got?
And if you followed the plot then you know I'm not going to give it a second thought
Yeah, let those pigs play because they'll all fucking pay
Yeah, karma's a fact, that shit'll come back someday
And I'll be like:
Like I give a fuck, like I give a shit about that fuck
Like I give a fuck, like I give a shit about that shit

If you like stoner rock, you'll like Astroqueen's "Crashlander" (mirror youtube video: here.) It's familiar to every stoner rock song ever. You can find the album "Crashlander" is on over at all that's heavy, but it's rare enough that downloading may be a better idea.

This made me laugh pretty hard, so thus brings today's song... "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer" (that's three links) by Queens of the Stone Age. This band has an amazing sense of humor. Do yourself a favor and buy at least one of their albums - this song comes from Rated R.

Here's a snippet of the above article:
The Pulse of Radio reports: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE were reportedly thrown out of a rehab clinic last week just one song into a performance, according to NME.com. The band accepted an invitation to play a six-song concert for patients at an unnamed California facility, but their set was abruptly cut short during the opening number and the group members were forcibly removed from the building by security guards. The song that the QUEENS opened with? "Feel Good Hit of the Summer", which consists of one line repeated over and over again: "Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, Ecstasy and alcohol...c-c-c-c-c-cocaine."

True? Not true? Who cares, it's hilarious.

"Black Bubblegum" by Dillinger Escape Plan is today's song. It comes from the album Ire Works which just came out. I don't know anything about this band, but I do know that this song is way more consumer-friendly and mainstream in style than the rest of their work. In other words, it's catchy and you'll probably like it. You can hear the song and three others from the album on their myspace.

Witchcult Today is the greatest thing since sliced bread, so go get it. It's out today. Logically you'd think today's song would be "Saturnine", but instead I have to go with "The Chosen Few", which you can easily go listen to on Electric Wizard's myspace.

This song will be, if not is, one of the best eight minutes of your life. I've been listening to Witchcult Today regularly for the past month and I'm sure it's going to be played for a long while yet. It's very cool, mellow, down-tuned and bass-heavy, familiar to doom in many respects but still within the reach of stoner rock. If you're not familiar with the genres or the band, "The Chosen Few" is a great place to start. If you are familiar with them, what the hell are you waiting for?

I discovered High On Fire only recently and therefore haven't had a chance to properly listen to some of their older albums, so this may be the reason I do not understand some of the negative reviews they've gotten for their newest album, Death Is This Communion. The album is ridiculously easy on the ears, and aside from someone just not liking a heavy metal sound, it should appeal.

Today I can't select a single song, although I do suggest you hear "Rumors of War", being that it's readily available. Instead, four sequential songs on the album blend together so well that I have to post about them all as a collective: "Turk", "Headhunter", "Rumors of War", and "DII". The production on this album is very balanced and naturally flowing, especially between these songs. Please do yourself a favor and find this album.

I can't say I care for holidays, but let's be collectively thankful that Scott Reeder exists.

"Thanks".

You can buy the album it's on, TunnelVision Brilliance, at All That's Heavy or slightly cheaper at CDUniverse. Naturally, Amazon has it, too.

Too much heavy, male-influenced music lately. Here is a song you will like if you're female, gay, on crack, able to live a tongue-in-cheek lifestyle, or pretentious:

"Deceptacon" by Le Tigre, off their self-titled album. If you learn the lyrics to this song, even if you experience a vast, all-consuming hatred for this band or style of music, they will forever be stuck in your head. It's been six years since I heard this song for the first time and the lyrics still surface at the most inopportune times.

Also, if you want to see the worst music video ever, it belongs to this song.

This is one of my favorite Alice In Chains songs, if not the favorite:

"Bleed The Freak".

Facelift.

More incredibly catchy lyrics: "Get Your Gunn". It's off of the album Portrait of an American Family by Marilyn Manson.

If you find Marilyn Manson's music obnoxious or aesthetically offensive, songs like this are probably the reason why. However, I have to say the lyrics are great, which is good because it's a lyric-based song. If you ever find yourself in a frustratingly boring situation, such as work or waiting in a line, reciting the first minute of this song to yourself does wonders. ... Unless you're psychotic, in which case I recommend another band entirely.

God-damn, ooh oh lord.

Fitting that my favorite Isis song would be a Black Sabbath cover. "Hand of Doom". It comes from an EP entitled Sawblade, which you'd be best off finding as a download. I can't imagine anyone not liking this song, so if you haven't heard it, please do.

Update:
As of January 3rd, you can also download this EP at sludgeswamp.

It's cold, it's raining, it's dark. It's a dull, dull day. Time for Morphine.

"French Fries With Pepper" is a pretty odd name for a pretty cool song. If you think you'd like low and stoner rock sounds presented in a jazz-y format (or is it the other way around?), this is the band for you. Sample some of their tracks on their fan myspace, then check out Like Swimming. Don't forget about Good, as it's their "best" album.

It's really hard to not have heard any of Peaches' material before, as it's been prevalent in popular media in recent years, particularly in the movie Lost In Translation. In any case, she's well-known for having hyper-sexualized lyrics, the most famous of her songs being "Fuck The Pain Away". Whether you love the song or hate it, it has a certain infectious quality you can't ignore.

I like a bit of intensity in my music, and the album this comes from, Teaches of Peaches is full of it. Unfortunately, the lyrics are so in-your-face that it's mostly just fucking annoying... but you have to respect the girl for trying. Her most recent album, Impeach My Bush is better.

I found good quality sound in a video online today. Thus, you get to hear what Orange Goblin's "The Ballad Of Solomon Eagle" sounds like. And you also get to giggle at the many cliches present in this video. The album the song comes from, Healing Through Fire, was released earlier this year.

Technically I had this one before, but I'm doing this one again because my brain doesn't seem to want to digest new music today.

Monster Magnet - "Medicine". This song comes from the immaculate Spine Of God album.

"Make no mistake: Your violation will be televised."