Song We Like: This Town by Max and the Martians

Song We Like: This Town by Max and the Martians

His ball and chain has left town, he’s happy, the music is happy, and we’ve none of us ever felt this good before. A perfect song for those rare occasions on which we feel euphorically free from bullshit. (Listen to it on podcast #59, which you can find at www.hlycrp.com)

Song We Like: Fallow by Ports of Spain

Song We Like: Fallow by Ports of Spain

Not every band is assisted by its backstory, but the information that this huge-sounding band is two dudes playing loopers live will make you want to listen to it fifteen times. Also, John insists that crooners like this cannot be from New Haven (as they claim) but Philadelphia is a possibility. (Listen to it on podcast #59, which you can find at www.hlycrp.com)

Song We Like: Sleep Tight by Lumps

Song We Like: Sleep Tight by Lumps

In the verse it’s like a rubber band, stretching to the edge of those two notes, and then everybody comes in on the chorus and some other stuff happens. New York City punk is having a fun moment. (Listen to it on podcast #59, which you can find at www.hlycrp.com)

Song We Like: Abstract Art by Milk Dick

Song We Like: Abstract Art by Milk Dick

Abstact sax, Violent Femmes, Modern Lovers, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns: So dumb! So beautiful! So strange! We adore this band. (Listen to it on podcast #59, which you can find at www.hlycrp.com)

Song We Like: 119 by Derek Frye

Song We Like: 119 by Derek Frye

He can sing, he can play guitar, he can write good lyrics, and now we’re watching Derek making the transition from musician to producer. Art is always about growth 👍

Song We Like: Girl by Rose Droll

Song We Like: Girl by Rose Droll

It’s the future! This song sounds both like the background and the foreground. Rose Droll is telling a story here that’s allowed to register mostly in the part of your brain that’s not paying tons of attention but will probably remember.

Song We Like: Lipstick by The Painkillers

Song We Like: Lipstick by The Painkillers

Music with the ease and confidence that either comes from being young deluded and on drugs, or from years and years of not giving a fuck. In this case it’s probably the latter and we love it

Song We Like: Wanton Way of Loving by Esther Rose

Song We Like: Wanton Way of Loving by Esther Rose

Recorded to sound like an old record playing from an old jukebox, with sun shining on the floor and dust in the air and somebody serving pie. But it’s also very modern – this is a sexually empowered woman and she wants to make sure you know.

Song We Like: Jack in Titanic by Bodega

Song We Like: Jack in Titanic by Bodega

Once again we say, if you are both musical and funny, please don’t hide that light under a bushel. It’s 2019 and we need that shit so bad. Do it, Bodega! Art rock!