I literally am incapable of listening to anything but this record by Chicago locals The Streets on Fire. It's called 'Hot Weekend' and if you're a fan of vaguely noisy, vaguely ambling and vaguely terrifying yet accessible rock'n'roll in the vein of Big Black, Scratch Acid and Slint then do yourself a favor and cruise on over to their myspace page and listen. If you don't end up digging it so much that you've played it through completely two or three times, then I'll buy you a beer. A cheap one. This is one of those records whose complexities are only fully appreciated upon several subsequent spins, however, it's music with a poppy enough foundation that I feel just about anyone could easily pick it up and enjoy.

Go!