Listening Post

After posting Papa Roach's Getting Away with Murder yesterday, I decided to go grab the song from iTunes and was promptly sucked down the "Listeners Also Bought" hole. And that eventually led me to Chevelle.

These guys have always been one step above their post-grunge contemporaries, mostly because they're from Chicago -- which means that unimaginably catchy hooks were built into their DNA at conception -- and they've forgone the tough-guy, we-write-songs-specifically-aimed-at-becoming-WWE-entrance-themes act.

Here's a good example. It's Vitamin R (Leading Us Along).