Combat pop

Hard-Fi, "Cash Machine" (mp3)

Hard-Fi, "Cash Machine" (YouTube)

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•   FINDING OUT WHAT MAKES THE MEAT PUPPETS TICK WITH A NEW ORAL HISTORY  |  May 30, 2012
  As half-assed a form as it can be, the rock-band oral history is a folk form nonetheless, with a great claim to authenticity.
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•   GETTING TO KNOW PHILIP LARKIN WITH A NEW EDITION OF HIS POEMS  |  April 26, 2012
  "A smash of glass and a rumble of boots/Electric trains and a ripped-up phonebooth/Paint-spattered walls and the cry of a tomcat/Lights going out, and a kick in the balls." These lines are not by Philip Larkin, of course — they're by Paul Weller.
•   BLACK SABBATH ARE BACK — IN PRINT AND ON FILM  |  November 14, 2011
  The literature on Black Sabbath — already extensive — will continue to grow, as we try, try, try again to wrap our poor noggins around the irreducibly cosmic fact of this band.