Listening Post

South Africa's Seether have always been one step above your average post-grunge act. Breakdown was one of my favorite straightforward rock songs of the past couple of years and the band's cover of Wham's Careless Whisper, while not exactly fantastic, took serious guts.

Well, they're back with a new album -- and the first single from it is kind of brilliantly meta.

Here's Country Song.

Listening Post

The term "post-grunge" is a cerebral sounding label given to a kind of music that's anything but. It's come to describe just about any band featuring heavy guitars and plodding rhythms that rose out of the late 90s through today -- bands like Nickelback, Hinder, Fuel, Staind, Daughtry, basically the entire rotation of your average AOR station in Tampa, Florida.

While most of the stuff that marches under the post-grunge flag sounds pretty much the same, that doesn't mean that there isn't the occasional decent hook or surprisingly good song coming out of one or another of these otherwise indistinguishable bands.

Case in point: South Africa's Seether, and their new single which, for whatever reason, seems to be on repeat on my iPod quite a bit lately.

Here's Breakdown.