Category: Song of the Day
John McDonagh – My Painted Eye
"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...
Saturday’s Radio – Song for Sophie
"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 rather than...
The Sally Jacks – Canteen Blues
Hi, it's me again. Fluffy. You know, the cat? Sometimes the Food Guy lets me write his log post and then he puts it on the Winternet for people to read. Tonight he found a good Cat Song on Bandcramp and he said I could write about it. The song is "Canteen Blues" by...
Dazed – Bubblegum
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 song by...
Big Jimmy Smaulkoch – Jimmy and The Hoff
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 affliction, but it...
Dusk – Hey, Soozie
"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 that emanates from...
darn it. – Invisible Song
"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 learned to play...
Two Songs by Seventeen Years Old and Berlin Wall
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, while...
The Con Way – Away From You
"Away From You," by The Con Way, has all of the elements that we love in a good song, and none of the crap that we don't like. Good Things that are in "Away From You:" tight guitars playing interesting figures, melody, a singer who can sing, harmony, a discernible...
Cold Soda – Neon Cross
Hi, it's me. Fluffy the cat. Sometimes I write a log post for the Food Guy and he puts it on the Winternet. The Food Guy said I should write the log post today because he's taking a "holiday." I'm not sure what he's taking a holiday from because he really doesn't do...
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