Tag: song of the day
Daily Dose: Ha Ha Tonka, “Dead to the World”
“I only do things that I know how to do. And I can make coffee, and I can make small talk ’cause who wants to try somethin’ new.” Unless it’s an undead hipster party, because that looks awesome.
Daily Dose: Middle Brother, “Me, Me, Me”
Otherwise understood as Deer Tick + Dawes + Delta Spirit.
Daily Dose: Chris Bathgate, “Eliza (hue)”
Daily Dose: Year of the Buffalo, “Waiting On You”
The perfect hymnal.
Daily Dose: Jenn Grant, “The Fighter”
Daily Dose: Photographers, “Detroit to Berlin”
I mean, the album is called Nostalgia The Country; how could I not?
Daily Dose: Marty O’Reilly & the Old Soul Orchestra, “Cold Canary Gaslight”
I’ve had my eye on Marty O’Reilly for a few years now, and am so happy to see him gaining ground…inch by inch. When he performed on an Outside Lands side stage a few years back, I thought that would be it: goodbye, Mr. O’Reilly–never to perform a small juke joint again. Sadly, my premonition didn’t come to bear, but last year he released his best work yet, Pray for Rain. The album is full-bodied and made with intention; is well engineered, mixed and mastered; and captures the soul (so uniquely American, and innately Californian) hidden in those Santa Cruz mountains. While I wish him many a sold-out Old Mississippi opera house in his future, I’ll selfishly revel in his local intimacy a little while longer.
Daily Dose: Caroline Rose, “America Religious”
My intent was to feature the song “When You Go”, off Rose’s album I Will Not Be Afraid; BUT, that wasn’t readily available for publication and I’m not that kind of blogger, so here you have “America Religious” from her album by the same name. Everything about this video feels right to me: scattered ephemera and composition notebooks, horses and oversized sweaters, bars, sunsets, art and the artful–America as some of us see it set to clever lyrics snuck into a catchy, driving song. Love it, and love her. Love, love, lovelovelove.
Daily Dose: BIG DATA, “Dangerous (feat. Joywave)”
“Big data” is a term used to describe a monumentally massive volume of structured and unstructured data that is difficult to process using traditional database and software techniques. “BIG DATA” is a paranoid electronic music project from the Internet, formed out of a general distrust of technology and The Cloud.
Video is somewhat graphic (if your tolerance is low). For everyone else, an amazing cultural critique–especially for those of us having lunch in a cubicle.
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