Mike Johnson - What Would You Do

Although he used to play bass in Dinosaur Jr., Northwest singer/songwriter Mike Johnson has always sounded more like his brothers in melodic melancholia, Mark Eitzel and Mark Lanegan -- or those holy folk ghosts, Nick Drake and Tim Buckley -- than former bandmate J. Mascis (his voice is a lot deeper and steadier). On "Come Back Again," he even rips it up with the same sort of swirling intensity as Lanegan's psych-garage rock combo The Screaming Trees. This shouldn't come as a complete surprise, as Johnson has also played with members of The Screaming Trees in the past (both Lanegan and Barrett Martin). Read More