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Lucinda Williams - Man Without a Soul
2 april 2020 · 6 min
Lucinda Williams - “Man Without a Soul” from the 2020 album Good Souls Better Angels on Highway 20/Thirty Tigers. Lees meer
"All the money in the world / Will never fill that hole / You're a man bought and sold / You're a man without a soul"
Over the past 40 years, Lucinda Williams has built a name for herself with her vivid storytelling, which has earned her four Grammy Awards throughout her career. But her forthcoming full-length, Good Souls Better Angels, will "forgo the personal and narrative-based songcraft that has become synonymous with her name and instead speaks to some of the injustices permeating our society."
Today's Song of the Day perfectly illustrates this shift. And while she never directly names who the subject of the song is, it's not hard to guess who she's referring to.
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Archers of Loaf - Raleigh Days
1 april 2020 · 2 min
Archers of Loaf - “Raleigh Days,” a 2020 single on Merge Records. Lees meer
It's been over 20 years, but indie rock kings Archers of Loaf have returned with the single "Raleigh Days," their first new music since 1998's LP White Trash Heroes. Originally formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1991, the band exploded on to the scene with their debut album Icky Mettle and the hit single "Web in Front", which landed them a highly-coveted appearance on MTV's Beavis & Butthead.
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Steve Earle & The Dukes - Devil Put the Coal in the Ground
31 maart 2020 · 3 min
Steve Earle & The Dukes - “Devil Put the Coal in the Ground” from the 2020 album Ghosts of West Virginia on New West Records. Lees meer
In 2010, the Upper Big Branch coal mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia exploded, killing twenty-nine of the thirty-one miners present at the time. It's been called one of the worst mining disasters in American history. And it inspired the latest album from veteran singer/songwriter Steve Earle, titled Ghosts of West Virginia.
The project originated with the off-Broadway play Coal Country, written by playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, who approached Earle to compose the score. While the play had to cancel its run in New York City due the coronavirus, Earle will release the songs as his 20th studio album on May 22nd via New West Records.
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Throwing Muses - Dark Blue
30 maart 2020 · 4 min
Throwing Muses - “Dark Blue” from the 2020 album Sun Racket on Fire Records. Lees meer
Alt-rock icons Throwing Muses return with their first new album in seven years, the fiery tenth full-length Sun Racket, out September 4 via Fire Records. The group originally formed in the early '80s, with it's current line-up of Kristin Hersh, drummer David Narcizo, and bassist Bernard Georges holding steady since the '90s. Recording the new album brought everybody back together from their respective coasts.
“Sun Racket has always been geographical," Narcizo confirms in a press release. "...a transplanted southerner in New England crash landing in California. A West Coast sound at New England scale, dragged back down to the south where the elements got more aggressive but now with deeper roots.”
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The B-Band - Kavire Del
27 maart 2020 · 4 min
B-Band - "Kavire Del” from the 2013 self-released album Napichideh (Uncomplicated) Lees meer
B-band formed in Tehran, Iran in 2009, combining alt-rock with Persian folklore. Dr. Nasim Niknafs, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Toronto, points out in an interview with Ethnotes that "when you transliterate this name into Farsi, it has another meaning, which translates roughly to 'without any boundaries.' In addition, B-Band is the name of a guitar pickup company. One name, many layers!"
Today's featured track is a cover of the '70s-era single “Kavire Del” by Marjan, which itself was a cover of a French/Turkish song performed by Ajda Pekkan.
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Liraz - Zan Bezan
26 maart 2020 · 4 min
Liraz - “Zan Bezan” from the 2020 album Zan on Dead Sea Recordings Lees meer
Liraz Charhi's family emigrated to Israel during the '70s at the brink of the Iranian Revolution. Nearly 50 years later, it's still a major influence in the music she writes under the name Liraz. "Music in Iran in the ’70s was characterized by resistance to traditional music and a desire to find a universal sound," she explained to the Haaretz Newspaper.
Today's Song of the Day translates to "Women, Sing" — it's a call to action for women to join her personal revolution. According to Liraz, "The fight for women’s freedom of expression is in my DNA."
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Bahram - Goosht
25 maart 2020 · 4 min
Bahram - “گوشت (Goosht)," a 2019 single on Peeleh Records Lees meer
The Huffington Post declared him one of the "50 people shaping the culture of the Middle East." Bahram Nouraei — who records simply as Bahram — uses hip-hop to call out the current political climate of Iran. His breakout single was titled "Nameyee Be Rayees Jomhour" (translating to "A Letter to the President"), which openly criticized the sixth president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Bahram has since relocated to Stockholm, Sweden. Earlier this year, he launched today's featured track, titled “گوشت (Goosht),” produced by Peymandegar and featuring album artwork by Setareh Malekzadeh. On March 20th, he released a new EP titled Gozaar (Transition), out now via Peeleh.
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Salome MC - Odium
24 maart 2020 · 4 min
Salome MC - “Odium” from the 2017 self-released album Excerpts from Unhappy Consciousness Lees meer
Salome MC is Iran's first female rapper, and her LP Excerpts from Unhappy Consciousness is the first full-length Persian hip-hop album produced by a woman. This is all the more impressive when you learn that in 2007, the Iranian government denounced rap, with the Ministry of Culture shutting down recording studios where these albums are made, raiding record stores where this music might be sold, blocking websites, and even arresting the artists themselves.
Released in 2017, Excerpts from Unhappy Consciousness is the culmination of two years work, said to be an "autobiographical concept album that explores a woman's journey in the light of Hegel's Unhappy Consciousness, with each track correlating to a stage of dialectical life of spirit."
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SarrSew - Farewell, Warden
23 maart 2020 · 4 min
SarrSew - "Farewell, Warden.” from the 2018 album Girih: Iranian Sound Artists on Zabte Sote Lees meer
When Tehran-born, Paris-based artist Sara Bigdeli Shamloo isn’t recording as half of the duo 9T Antiope, she records solo under the name SarrSew.
While previous SarrSew tracks were composed for theatre and film (Shamloo was studying Theatre Directing at Tehran University before she dropped out), today’s Song of the Day marks her solo debut single, a haunting, somber chant sung in English over an eerie, yet meditative lullaby until it culminates in an erratic blur of feedback.
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Eyelids - The Accidental Falls
20 maart 2020 · 4 min
Eyelids - "The Accidental Falls" from the 2020 album The Accidental Falls on Jealous Butcher Records Lees meer
When Larry Beckett offers up his lyrics to you, it's hard to say "no." Beckett was a long-time collaborator with legendary singer/songwriter Tim Buckley, and even wrote the lyrics to the now-iconic and heavily-covered 1969 single "Song to the Siren." He's also the father of the kid who's best friends with Chris Slusarenko's son, putting this creative connection into place. Slusarenko is a member of Portland supergroup Eyelids, which features members of The Decemberists, Guided by Voices, Elliott Smith, Quasi, and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.
Eyelids' latest album, The Accidental Falls, is a 13-song collection utilizing Beckett's lyrics, produced by fellow Portland resident, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. For the title track, Beckett drew from the works of 18th and 19th century German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for "probably the most rocking translation of Goethe's work to date."
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Cable Ties - Sandcastles
19 maart 2020 · 4 min
Cable Ties - "Sandcastles" from the 2020 album Far Enough on Merge Records. Lees meer
Melbourne punk trio Cable Ties return with the album Far Enough at the end of the month, their second album overall, but their first for Merge Records. The Australian group made their debut in April 2015, performing at Wetfest, an annual non-binary-inclusive music festival spotlighting bands emerging from Melbourne's D.I.Y. scene. Since then, they've emerged from the underground with their intense, cathartic anthems.
On today's featured track, the call-and-response vocals of guitarist Jenny McKechnie and drummer Shauna Boyle may call to mind the interplay between Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, but Cable Ties bring a more '70s-post punk influence, channeling bands like X-Ray Spex and The Raincoats.
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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Cars In Space
18 maart 2020 · 5 min
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - "Cars In Space," a 2020 single on Sub Pop. Lees meer
Melbourne, Australia's Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever return with the single "Cars In Space," which — along with last year's singles “In The Capital” and ‘“Read My Mind” — marks their first new music since their debut LP Hope Downs.
Much like Hope Downs, "Cars In Space" is a jangly piece of pop, harkening back to the '80s Australian indie-pop heyday. The group's dueling vocals are in play, adding another level of tension to a song band member Fran Keaney says "follows the swirling words and thoughts before a break-up."
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Hamilton Leithauser - Here They Come
17 maart 2020 · 3 min
Hamilton Leithauser - “Here They Come” from the 2020 album The Loves of Your Life on Glassnote Records. Lees meer
Following his 2016 collaboration with Vampire Weekend's Rostam, Leithauser returns this year with The Loves of Your Life, an album produced, recorded, and written all by himself. “All of the songs on my new record are about people,” he explained in a press statement. “Individual, real people. Some are strangers I’ve met, but a lot are friends.”
In the case of today's Song of the Day, the friend in particular "tends to run from his problems. When the going gets tough, he tends to just cut and run. The song is about the specific moment when the lights are coming up in a movie theater where he’s been hiding out all day, and life’s complications are just coming back into focus.”
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Yumi Zouma - Cool For A Second
16 maart 2020 · 3 min
Yumi Zouma - “Cool for a Second” from the 2020 album Truth or Consequences on Polyvinyl. Lees meer
Dream pop quartet Yumi Zouma have returned with the new album Truth or Consequences, their first for new label Polyvinyl Records but their third overall.
Today's Song of the Day is a swoon-inducing electro-pop piece with an '80's-style beat. It's hard to believe the song was almost scrapped. Ryder explained, via a press release, "The song was demoed in Los Angeles and then long forgotten, destined for the scrap heap. A spark of inspiration from Josh in the introduction reestablished that for us, the most conspicuous of melodies are often hidden in modest beginnings.”
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Perfect Son - Lust
13 maart 2020 · 3 min
Perfect Son - Lust - from the 2019 album Cast on Sub Pop. Lees meer
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FLOHIO - WAY2
12 maart 2020 · 3 min
FLOHIO - WAY2 - a 2019 single on ALPHA. Lees meer
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FVLCRVM - Words
11 maart 2020 · 4 min
FVLCRVM - Words - a 2018 single on Universal Austria. Lees meer
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alyona alyona - Падло (feat. Alina Pash)
10 maart 2020 · 3 min
alyona alyona - Падло (feat. Alina Pash) - from the 2019 album ПУШКА on HitWonder. Lees meer
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La colère - La Plage
9 maart 2020 · 3 min
La colère - La Plage - from the 2020 self-released album La Vague. Lees meer
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Acid Tongue - Bullies
6 maart 2020 · 3 min
Acid Tongue - Bullies - from the 2020 album Bullies on Freakout Records. Lees meer
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Ultraísta - Tin King
5 maart 2020 · 4 min
Ultraísta - Tin King - from the 2020 album Sister on Partisan Records. Lees meer
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BROKEN UP - Long Long Long
4 maart 2020 · 5 min
BROKEN UP - Long Long Long - a 2019 single on Wave Records. Lees meer
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Pottery - Texas Drums Pt I & II
3 maart 2020 · 6 min
Pottery - Texas Drums Pt I & II - from the 2020 album Welcome to Bobby's Motel on Partisan Records. Lees meer
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FACS - Teenage Hive
2 maart 2020 · 3 min
FACS - Teenage Hive - from the 2020 album Void Moments on Trouble In Mind Records. Lees meer
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Chastity Belt - The Process
28 februari 2020 · 5 min
Chastity Belt - The Process - a 2020 single on Hardly Art. Lees meer
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Wye Oak - Fear of Heights
27 februari 2020 · 4 min
Wye Oak - Fear of Heights - a 2020 single on Merge Records. Lees meer
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Drive-By Truckers - Thoughts and Prayers
26 februari 2020 · 5 min
Drive-By Truckers - Thoughts and Prayers - from the 2020 album The Unraveling on ATO Records. Lees meer
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Waxahatchee - Fire
25 februari 2020 · 4 min
Waxahatchee - Fire - from the 2020 album Saint Cloud on Merge Records. Lees meer
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Lady Lamb - Arizona
24 februari 2020 · 5 min
Lady Lamb - Arizona - a 2020 single on Ba Da Bing! Lees meer
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Smokey Brights - Flash Your Lights (Rudy Willingham Remix)
21 februari 2020 · 5 min
Smokey Brights - Flash Your Lights (Rudy Willingham Remix) - a 2020 single on Freakout Records. Lees meer
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Midwife - Anyone Can Play Guitar
20 februari 2020 · 4 min
Midwife - Anyone Can Play Guitar - from the 2020 album Forever on The Flenser. Lees meer
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Moaning - Ego
19 februari 2020 · 4 min
Moaning - Ego - from the 2020 album Uneasy Laughter on Sub Pop. Lees meer
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Thrillhouse - One Of These Days
18 februari 2020 · 6 min
Thrillhouse - One Of These Days - a 2019 self-released single. Lees meer
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Cartalk - Wrestling
17 februari 2020 · 4 min
Cartalk - Wrestling - a 2019 single on DistroKid. Lees meer
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Rocketship - What's the Use of Books
14 februari 2020 · 5 min
Rocketship - What's the Use of Books - from the 2019 album Thanks to You on Darla Records. Lees meer
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Poliça - Sea Without Blue
13 februari 2020 · 3 min
Poliça - Sea Without Blue - from the 2020 album When We Stay Alive on Memphis Industries. Lees meer
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TORRES - Dressing America
12 februari 2020 · 4 min
TORRES - Dressing America - from the 2020 album Silver Tongue on Merge Records. Lees meer
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Jonah Mutono - Circulation
11 februari 2020 · 4 min
Jonah Mutono - Circulation - a 2019 single on True Panther/EQT Recordings. Lees meer
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The Reminders - Have It All
10 februari 2020 · 3 min
The Reminders - Have It All - a 2020 self-released single. Lees meer
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Bonnie "Prince" Billy - This Is Far From Over
7 februari 2020 · 3 min
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - This Is Far From Over - from the 2019 album I Made A Place on Drag City. Lees meer
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Weyes Blood - Wild Time
6 februari 2020 · 6 min
Weyes Blood - Wild Time - from the 2019 album Titanic Rising on Sub Pop. Lees meer
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Michael Stipe - Drive To The Ocean
5 februari 2020 · 4 min
Michael Stipe - Drive To The Ocean - a 2020 self-released single. Lees meer
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Courtney Barnett - Dead Fox
4 februari 2020 · 4 min
Courtney Barnett - Dead Fox - from the 2015 album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit on Mom + Pop. Lees meer
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Kero Kero Bonito - When the Fires Come
3 februari 2020 · 4 min
Kero Kero Bonito - When the Fires Come - from the 2019 album Civilisation I on Polyvinyl. Lees meer
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Hotels - Sides
31 januari 2020 · 6 min
Hotels - Sides - a 2019 self-released single. Lees meer
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MGMT - In the Afternoon
30 januari 2020 · 4 min
MGMT - In the Afternoon - a 2019 single on MGMT Records. Lees meer
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Dogleg - Fox
29 januari 2020 · 3 min
Dogleg - Fox - from the 2020 album Melee on Triple Crown Records. Lees meer
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Bonny Light Horseman - Deep In Love
28 januari 2020 · 5 min
Bonny Light Horseman - Deep In Love - from the 2020 album Bonny Light Horseman on 37d03d. Lees meer
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Ratboys - Alien With a Sleep Mask On
27 januari 2020 · 4 min
Ratboys - Alien With a Sleep Mask On - from the 2020 album Printer's Devil on Topshelf Records. Lees meer
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Polyrhythmics - Yeti, Set, Go
24 januari 2020 · 5 min
Polyrhythmics - Yeti, Set, Go - a 2019 self-released single. Lees meer
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