The Zombies

This week we review music by The Zombies, This Is The Kit, Aim, Axel and the Farmers, B.Alone and more.

"I wrote a song about my high school girlfriend who broke my heart and have been milking it ever since. The irony of it is, it's the very first song I ever wrote and it's the song that's pinned on my back, kind of like 'kick me.'"

I've decided that I don't care what pop music means anymore to anyone else. I only care about what's popular with me. And so from now on, I'm going to try and put my own small spotlight on some albums that really pop for me that you might not have heard otherwise.

As a cranky, sleep-deprived new parent in the throes of box sets by hipsters, I declared (on Twitter, no less) that there was absolutely no need for me to hear Kanye's latest magnum opus. Until I heard a track on YouTube.

Tom Petty's album Pack Up The Plantation was a somewhat rockin' example of his stage shows. In comparison, that release was nothing more than a handful of crumbs compared to the feast that is The Live Anthology.

The songs on Wilco's self-titled album are laden with fat, beefy hooks although there isn't the usual amount of boundary pushing here.