Category: Song of the Day

In "Without," Jonny Clousson pauses to ask for directions - with or without? - then floors the accelerator and steers his Relationship into the deep end of the swimming pool, all speakers blazing with pure punky pop energy. The relationship in question could be with a...

Ben Talmi's "Give It A Shot" is a wonderful wall of slow-brewing positive energy, layers of sound blowing away the "Why?" and transfiguring the doubt as Shaw's "Why not?" As a great person once said, you miss all of the shots you never take, and if you're arguing and...

Tampa's "Unless" is a suite of post-breakup sights and sighs, one movement blending into the next, a musical journey that parallels the emotional drive through the mountains that is the daily commute of anyone who has called the moving van on a relationship that is...

J Wagner's "Where the House Used to Sit" ripples through that pleasantly nostalgic space in your head where not-too-country melodies brush against the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen as a steel guitar and a quiet organ paint a pensive backdrop. Listen to "Where the House...

Noah Roth's "Abandoned Properties" speaks to anyone who is lucky enough to have experienced the fraying and inevitable rending of a relationship. Lucky, because you can cross that one off your bucket list and move on with your life. It's okay to look back and attempt...

FreeThinker's "Chris(mas) Song" is the soundtrack to everyone's favorite movie, that rom-com set in the Midwest with that really good actress, you know, the one in that jewel thief movie. A quick flashback to a meet-cute at a small college before the opening credits...

When I initiated this blog many eons ago, my intention was to dispense with the James Joyce-ian prosal flourishes and the Obscure References and just say, "Here's a good song. Listen to it." Of course that did not transpire since the entire purpose of writing a music...

Earthset, an alt-rock band based in Bologna, Italy, spins jangly veils of sound and light over a solid rhythm and shot through with vocals voicing pain and paranoia. On "Flush (Studio Session)" all elements mesh to spin an engaging web connecting the corners of pop...

Uncle Uncle's "Island 73" is a beautifully simple song, the kind you hear and think you can write yourself. But you can't and that's okay because you can listen to this one, with its soft layers of easy guitars swirling gently beneath a timeless voice. Listen to...

"Don't Disappear," by The Green Mushroom Band of Rueglio, Italy, features an element rarely seen or heard in today's polyphonic world: horns. Not the synthesized mutation, but the actual blow-into-this-end-and-sound-comes-out-the-other-end variety. Our last Song of...