Song Of The Day archive
Listen The Dynamites: A Celebration Of Resurrection
June 15, 2012 – "Yours and Mine," featuring Charles Walker and Bettye LaVette, is an exhilarating affirmation.
Listen Trailer Trash Tracys: A Shoegazer's Dream
June 14, 2012 – Cool but still beautiful, "Candy Girl" is touching, revealing and almost painfully intimate.
Listen Elephant Micah: Message In The Mystery
June 13, 2012 – Ambiguous words, delivered with earnest passion, lend special power to "Airline Living."
Listen The dB's: After A 25-Year Absence, A Vital Return
June 12, 2012 – In "That Time Is Gone," the dB's singer needlessly questions the wisdom of his own band's comeback.
Listen Waxahatchee: A Love Song, Without The Love
June 11, 2012 – "Be Good" chronicles a close platonic friendship, made more delicate by the risk of romance.
Listen Squarepusher: Pushing Every Envelope
June 8, 2012 – "Dark Steering" is a fitting soundtrack for life-or-death motorcycle races through neon-lit streets.
Listen Tim Fite Finds The Essence Of Innocence In 'Teenagers'
June 7, 2012 – In "We Are All Teenagers," Fite nails the adolescent unease that lingers into adulthood.
Listen Death Grips: 'Footage' Of The Hip-Hop Apocalypse
June 6, 2012 – "I've Seen Footage" catalogs the paranoia and police brutality that drove Death Grips to insanity.
Listen Zammuto: Beyond The Books, A Restless Imagination
June 5, 2012 – In "Idiom Wind," the former Books member tells the story of a man who needs to get his hands dirty.
Listen The Honeydogs: A Retail Solution For Heartbreak
June 4, 2012 – The hook in "Broke It, Buy It" is insidiously catchy enough to ricochet through your head for days.
Listen Andrew Cyrille: Haitian Fascination
June 1, 2012 – In "Marinèt," Cyrille and Frisner Augustin collaborate on a breezy but intense Haitian folk tune.
Listen In Trance 95: The Old New Wave
May 31, 2012 – "Presidente," as reissued on a "minimal wave" compilation, sounds both dated and futuristic.
Listen BADBADNOTGOOD: A Moody Jazz-Hop Think Piece
May 30, 2012 – The jazz trio may be controversial, but it carries on a rich tradition of reinvention in "UWM."
Listen K-Holes: A Grimy Smear Of Rock 'n' Roll
May 29, 2012 – In the frayed, exhausted "Child," K-Holes' members wield their own unique sort of holler.
Listen Chuck Prophet: Tawdry, Tattered Glory
May 25, 2012 – In "The Left Hand and the Right Hand," Prophet turns tales from the outer limits into a catchy song.
