Category: Song of the Day

"Two Is Better Than One," by Backyard Star, earns Song of the Day honors on the strength of a single lyric: Can you play the tambourine / On two and four not one and three? That may be the most beautiful couplet I've ever heard in any song. "Two Is Better Than One"...

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Today we feature a pair of long-forgotten oddities, by a songwriting plumber, that appeared on an album credited to the father of Beach Boys Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson. Eck Kynor, and his compositions "The Happy Song" and "The Plumber's Tune," was a footnote...

"Mountain," by The Stillvettas, is a powerfully beautiful song possessing all of the elements that anyone searching for Good Music should require: huge, melodic guitars with Big Chords; a singer who can hit the back wall with his voice; a sensibility that is equal...

"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 just good chords, try...

"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. "Wasted" springs to life...

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 I...

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...

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 about great musicians of whom the world...

Sometimes I ask my wife for help in writing these things. Sometimes I ask my cat for help, but tonight Fluffy had a previous engagement to stare out the front window at the bugs on the other side of the screen. So when I ask my wife what I should say about this song,...