New Additions: Buford's Last Pusser by The Hairy Patt Band

Two-member bands were the rage in the early 2000s thanks to The White Stripes and The Black Keys, but garage/punk/lo-fi duos have been around long before that, and Columbus has had a few. The Hairy Patt Band, featuring Joe Patt (later of Them Wranch) and Jason Drenik made a disjointed and dirty ruckus in the 90s, and I recently grabbed their first album Buford's Last Pusser off Amazon. It's loud, weird, jarring and occasionally melodic, far less song oriented than the aforementioned Stripes or Keys, but equally engrossing.

New Additions: Medium Rare by Them Wranch

Even though we were playing shows around the same time as I was in Columbus in the early '00s, I never got a chance to check out Them Wranch. While I won't be able to correct that mistake, I rectified it somewhat by picking up their sophomore album Medium Rare on Orange Recordings from 2001. Featuring Joe Patt from The Hairy Patt Band (who will come up at some point on the blog, guaranteed), this is the kind of grizzled garage rock I wasn't really into then but have grown to appreciate.