During my time spent in Madison, Wisconsin, there was a bar down the street from where I lived with quite possibly the best jukebox ever. The Wisco (name of the establishment) was a pretty grimy place that was very dark and only lit up by the occasional neon beer sign and a painball machine. The bartender (usually a huge bearded dude) also operated the deep frier behind him (wings and fries only). It was a pretty kickass place but back to the jukebox: it, just like the place itself, was very simple and rock-n-roll-like. There was no Justin Timberlake or Nickelback on this box, instead you got bands like Helmet, Kiss, Mastodon, all the Metallica albums, and Black Mountain (whose song "Don't Run Our Hearts Around" I always played). Stephen McBean, leader of Black Mountain, also has another project in which he releases his songs: Pink Mountaintops. And the other week they released an excellent little album that is much in the vein of Black Mountain. Just a damn good listen.
For fans of Black Mountain (duh), Black Keys, Dark Meat, Mercury Rev, Queens of the Stone Age
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