Category: Song of the Day

"Despite Your Doubts," by Tired Eyes, is the soundtrack to the movie that plays in the heads of (infinity) former couples, the movie filmed after the breakup, when the screenwriter lets everyone say the things they wish they had said when it actually happened, and no...

"Low Grey Light," by Wild Light Sound, is a beautiful, understated song about chasing the sun, or chasing the warmth in a relationship. You felt it; it was here. It must have gone somewhere. Let's go there, wherever there is. The simplicity of the arrangement mirrors...

"Blueberry Dream," by The Pink Stones, meanders a vaguely-marked path scratched into the Georgia dust between the farms of Country, Soul, and Dream Pop. If I had to play the Genre Game (which I don't have to but will anyway), I would dub this Southern Shoegaze. I...

When I was younger my family attended a Methodist Church in Tennessee. Twice a year, all of the middle school kids who were members would be rounded up and packed off to a weekend retreat at some woodsy locale in the mountains. I think we were supposed to bond in...

Today's feature should be required listening - or viewing - for anyone who wants to be a musician, or for anyone who just loves music: Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard with a cover of Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie." I love the song's dramatic arc. It starts off as a...

When I was a small child I had a great idea. I wanted to transform our family's Buick into an airplane by nailing planks to the car doors. As far as I could tell, the only thing separating our car from an airplane was a lack of wings, and a 2x4 protruding from each...

"Where to Begin," by Mikey, roams the outfield between folk and indie pop, with a twinge of country at the edge of the grass. That's a good place to play, and the song has that classic sound, that I've felt this before vibe, that always marks the best music. The track...

"Rock and Roll," by Beach Bait, is a surfy ballad, full of silences, the song played at the end of a summer night when the adrenaline has faded and you walk down the beach away from the fire and you just want to sit at the edge of the tide with your girlfriend and...

The country and folk music of the southern Appalachians - hillbilly music, some call it - has always been about the lives of the people who live within the valleys and ridges that stretch in a band through western Virginia and East Tennessee. In 1927, Ralph Peer set...