Exclusive Download: Cobra Skulls' Furious Rocker 'Solastalgia'

Cobra Skulls

Phillip Corbin

Click to listen to Cobra Skulls' 'Solastalgia'

Reno, Nevada punk rockers Cobra Skulls can barely suppress their rage for our culture's treatment of the environment on "Solastalgia," a heavy cut from their third album, Agitations. "Sure, we recycle and carry reusable bags, bottles and cups, but we still feel like the bastards in power are spiting us and robbing us of a world that gives life, but not as fast as we take it away," says frontman Devin Peralta. Agitations will hit stores on September 27th, but you can download the song for free here.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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