by Charles Norman | Jun 24, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Apollo,” by Atomic Cafe, is all about guitars riffing chords mixed high and tight. Sometimes that’s a lot; sometimes good chords are all you need. There’s plenty of good ones here. And if you think a song needs to have, you know, more than...
by Charles Norman | Jun 23, 2018 | Song of the Day
“Wasted,” by Loved Ones, is a cool lo-fi affair combining elements of country, dream pop, post rock, and surf. If that sounds like a real mess, well, you might be right. You’re probably right. But it’s a very interesting and adventurous mess....
by Charles Norman | Jun 21, 2018 | Song of the Day
I have a problem. My problem is that I’ve been sitting here for over an hour trying to write this opening paragraph. I had a really good one about a legless man in a wheelchair rolling the wrong way down a freeway feeder road (I actually saw that last week), but...
by Charles Norman | Jun 20, 2018 | Song of the Day
Regular readers of this blog (both of them, if we include the cat) are familiar with the musical genre known as Underwear Music. For those of you keeping score at home, Underwear Music is music that a person writes and records while sitting on a bed in their underwear...
by Charles Norman | Jun 18, 2018 | Song of the Day
So I’m in my office listening to “I Can’t Make You Love Me” by Rowan Kerrick. And my wife comes in from the kitchen and asks, somewhat incredulously, “Is this a Nobody?” Now, first of all, I don’t write about Nobodies. I write...
