Sun and Sail Club - Dresden Fireball Freakout Flight

     At only two minutes in length, today's song is almost a bit of an apology for the last couple of days of prog marathons. I know you're big girls and boys, more than capable of devoting your full attention to something for ten minutes at a stretch (even if that something does sometimes require a modicum of effort to wrap your head around), but I also know that you're busy and don't always have the time for all that devoting (especially if you factor in the time it can take to give a song more than once listen if you dig it or if you're just after the full experience).

     So in summation, Loud Noises readers wearied by the last two days of monumentally-proportioned songs, Sun and Sail Club's latest "Dresden Fireball Freakout Flight" has your name on it. It's the first track to be released from The Great White Dope, the sophomore disc from this four-piece whose resumes include bands like Fu Manchu and Kyuss.

     With that kind of a pedigree, it should come as no surprise that "Dresden Fireball" is a short, sharp burst of fuzzed-out stoner energy (if that isn't a contradiction in terms). This one fucking goes for two minutes, like something out of a bygone rocking era, and then it's gone. Even if this doesn't grab you right off, it's only two minutes. You've got the time. Just click the link already.

Song of the Day: Queens of the Stone Age - Better Living Through Chemistry

     Once again it's the weekend (funny how they come around every week, eh?) and since there's only a couple of them left this summer, I thought maybe I'd go back to the template from last weekend, by which I mean picking some songs that are perhaps a little more laid back, a little more chill. As is so often the case, the band was the easy choice. My friends and I listened to a ton of Queens of the Stone Age through high school and into university; the first three QOTSA albums in particular were never far from our Discmen (yeah, I'm that old). The choice of song was less obvious, given that QOTSA can rock a laid-back groove with the best of them (*cough* Kyuss *cough*), but I think I settled on one that will take your day and set it to "chill" without too much difficulty.