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...
by Charles Norman | Jul 10, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Invisible Song,” by darn it., is all about sedately beautiful harmonies layered over hugely thrashing, barely civilized guitars. Think the Byrds backed by the garage band down the street after they’ve downloaded a tuner from the App Store and...
by Charles Norman | Jul 8, 2018 | Song of the Day
Today we feature two songs by a Tokyo-based band, Seventeen Years Old and Berlin Wall. Their Facebook biography, as translated from Japanese by Google, describes the band as “Shoegazer, pops by a gender twin vocal to the sound image influenced by Dream Pop,...
