Song We like: Night Lights by Day & Dream

Song We like: Night Lights by Day & Dream

This is shoegaze: it goes on and on, and the colors all fade into each other, and we’re dreaming. The whole album is like that. Very nice. It’s so hard to believe that this many layers of sound were created by two people that I’m going to have to see them live to figure out how they do it.

This is shoegaze: it goes on and on, and the colors all fade into each other, and we’re dreaming. The whole album is like that. Very nice. It’s so hard to believe that this many layers of sound were created by two people that I’m going to have to see them live to figure out how they do it.

Song We Like: Losing Form by Polly Panic

Song We Like: Losing Form by Polly Panic


In these post-Polly-Harvey days, a girl like Polly Panic needs to do more than just whack you on your head with her cello. She needs to whack you on your head with two cellos, that are mic’ed up to sound scarier than Metallica. We love it.

Song We Like: Robo Lantern Feat. Louise Nutting with Smoke Rising

Song We Like: Robo Lantern Feat. Louise Nutting with Smoke Rising


Crackling production and smoking, achy vocals; it’s a quiet-ish song, but there’s nothing subtle about it. It will make you think of smoky clubs in Paris, or about swirling, trippy animations featuring girls and guns.

Song We Like: I Hear the Dead by Dolly Spartans

Song We Like: I Hear the Dead by Dolly Spartans


Solid indie music that has something interesting to say. The chorus of this song makes Johnny P’s eyes roll back into his head with ecstasy.

Song We Like: The Lucky Ones by Spud Cannon

Song We Like: The Lucky Ones by Spud Cannon


As we’ve stated, funkiness is an untradeable, unteachable, undefined commodity, and if you’ve got some of it, you need to protect it and cherish it like rubies. And flash it at people sometimes, like Spud Cannon does in this song.

Song We Like: Adeline by The Tenders

Song We Like: Adeline by The Tenders


It’s slow and fast and loud and soft, a crooning song about gun violence, with 50s harmonies and 90s guitars. Everything they attempt to do here probably shouldn’t work but it really does.

Song We Like: Two Golden Coins by Creature and the Woods

Song We Like: Two Golden Coins by Creature and the Woods

You can’t hear it yet. Because it’s not released yet. But we love it and you can hear it on our #44 podcast 😉

Song We Like: Skin by Years at Sea

Song We Like: Skin by Years at Sea


Expanding the range of post-hardcore with some truly interesting drums that have almost a steel-drum kind of note (John calls them ‘tinny-tommy’ drums).

Song We Like: Combat Rock by Winnie Richards/Billy Ghost

Song We Like: Combat Rock by Winnie Richards/Billy Ghost


Top notch lyrics plus a little-girl-singing-from-the-bottom-of-a-hole sound gets real good when they add some swingin beats and thick strings and stuff halfway through. Really nice choices.