Song we like: Seratonin by Daddy’s Beemer

Song we like: Seratonin by Daddy’s Beemer


This singer is not afraid to really sing, (or to really act, in their five star videos). We also love how this new sound is moving this legendary Charlotte band from an emo sound to a groovy-groovy emo sound.

Song We like: 20 Years by Earline

Song We like: 20 Years by Earline


20 years is a long time to feel something, and think about something, and boil that thing down into some lyrics that have real emotional precision. Earleine brings all that here, with a delivery that matches. 

Song we like: Vegan Doughnuts by TOP Nachos

Song we like: Vegan Doughnuts by TOP Nachos


We like everything about TOP Nachos, from their subject matter to their cardboard-box-thumping Tiny Desk video. In addition to being totally amusing they are really talented. Five stars.

Song We like: The Groove by the Medium

Song We like: The Groove by the Medium

Some smart dudes from Nashville who are already famous because of a Rolling Stone guy on a motorbike bring you the entire sounds of seventies radio, smashed into one song. It sounds  good.  👍


Song We Like: Hummingbird by Magus and the Movers

Song We Like: Hummingbird by Magus and the Movers

Magus (May-GUS) and his band sing for a long time about some stuff, like hummingbirds and ships. After 6.5 minutes you’ll feel like you’ve wallpapered the inside of your brain with this song, in such a good way. It’s so, so pretty. Five stars.

Song We Like: Lay by Sleeping Jesus

Song We Like: Lay by Sleeping Jesus

Me and John surprised each other, and you, with our unexpected coolness in finding this cool-cool-cool brooklyn-sounding band (they’re from Minnesota). We don’t know what genre this is, but it sounds expensive and sexy and plagued by ennui (like Brooklyn)

Song We Like: Don’t Tell Me Your Dreams by Gold Connections

Song We Like: Don’t Tell Me Your Dreams by Gold Connections

If you’re like me and you collect songs about rockstar relationships, you’ll love this one. ‘You said I sold your heart to top the charts!’ DAMN!! It’s also a really good, solid, hook-y song, perfectly executed, and we love it

Song We Like: Space Baron Boogie by Viva le Vox

Song We Like: Space Baron Boogie by Viva le Vox

It was only after we recorded the podcast that I came upon a video of this singer doing a lewd dance on stage with a stand up bass, but really you can kind of hear that kind of stage presence even in the audio. A wonderful, totally weird band, a gift to humankind.

Song We Like: The Basement by Lunar Vacation

Song We Like: The Basement by Lunar Vacation

A sweet-sounding band with a sort of weird, vague, melodic/not-melodic thing going on, singing a song about love and loss and vagueness and exhausted indifference at a basement party. Everyone can relate to this 👍