by Charles Norman | Jul 21, 2018 | Song of the Day
“My Painted Eye,” by John McDonagh, is a startlingly beautiful slate-colored cloud of intertwined guitars and vocals, floating in that space that connects and separates rock, country, and psychedelia, featuring a chorus of harmonies mixed in the...
by Charles Norman | Jul 19, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Song for Sophie,” by Saturday’s Radio, is a warm blast of folk and rock, a mass of voices and guitars that invoke a one-more-vocal-track-here aesthetic in which Harmony Is Good and melodies and choruses are carried along by the instrumental tracks...
by Charles Norman | Jul 15, 2018 | Song of the Day
Music traces the Great Arc of each relationship. Unless you are one of the lucky ones who plateaus in the Flatline of Happiness, a typical relationship plays out something like this… First we have the I Am So Into You phase, which happens to be the name of a...
by Charles Norman | Jul 14, 2018 | Song of the Day
Okay, I listened to a lot of songs today and “Jimmy and The Hoff” is the only one that made me laugh. It seems that our man, Big Jimmy Smaulkoch, is dying due to sauce in the blood and guts turning to mud. I wish I could be more specific about his...
by Charles Norman | Jul 12, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Hey, Soozie,” by Dusk, triangulates in that ethereal mist that floats in the nether region between country, rock, soul, psychedelia, and folk. What? OK, that’s five genres so it pentagulates. Happy now? Whatever, this is American music, the sound...
