Secret Machines

It’s rare for the Secret Machines to do anything on a small scale, but these proggish rock avatars packed up their prodigious gear and headed to the Rolling Stone studios to unleash four exclusive live tracks to an unsuspecting world. No one at the rag's offices will ever forget the day the Houston trio arrived: Their heavy metal thunder shook desktops in offices three floors down as they ran through their set. Luckily you won't have to nail down the furniture when you listen to these live tracks from their sonically prophetic and musically florid Ten Silver Drops, but then, maybe you should.