Math rock. Ooh, what a high strung genre. Crazy rhythms, driving verses, clashing guitars, energetic vocals. Music to get your heart pumping and adrenaline rushing. While "normal" rock bands make freqent use of 4/4 time, math rockers keep their songs in 3/8, 7/8, and 11/8, or choose to sporadically switch times and tempos midverse. This results in peculiar, unpredictable music which, while
Play it: Touch & Go Records Sampler Oh joyous of 4-day work weeks! Just in time for their 25th Anniversary, Touch & Go (and Quarterstick) Records have been added to the Rhapsody library. At this time, it appears to be limited to mostly recent artists and one (maybe two) from other artists on the label. More recent T&G staples like TV On The Radio , CocoRosie , [...]

Play it: Polvo - The Merge Years ('92-'95) Many of holes in the Merge back catalogue became Rhapvailable yesterday. Of note were nine Superchunk singles (containing about 8 songs not available on their three odds n' end compilations;) several great albums from Lambchop , The Radar Bros. and The Rose Buds ; and all the Merge works of Polvo , which for me, is the real prize here. Formed in Chapel [...]