You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"Amphetamines" by Eve 6 For Fans of: Hooks
Bitter Melody
Open City's Hands in the Honey Jar I was original going to write an essay on how songs can contain whole months of life experience in their 2-5 minutes of...
You Can Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"Life's a Pill" by Koyo I'm sick, I missed a post last week due to traveling, and Koyo makes me feel better. Enjoy.
You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"You Love the Thunder" by Jackson Browne For Fans of: Mid-70s Los Angeles Songwriters, Warren Zevon, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen
Record as Book
Giving the Album Your Undivided Attention My wife made a joke one morning that now sticks as a representation of how often I have earbuds in. She asked me...
You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John For Fans of: Elton John
Cinematic Sequencing
How Electric Youth's music parallels the act structure of theater and film The synth-pop duo Electric Youth are probably best known for their song "A Real...
You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"Runaway" by Electric Youth For Fans of: Chvrches, Futurecop!, KRISTINE, Carpenter Brut, Pertubator.
Heavy as in Full of Sorrow
Origins The other day a friend of mine sent me the album Death Folk Country by Dorthia Cottrell, the singer from the Richmond, VA doom band Windhand. Where...
You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"Crush (Stripped)" by Ethel Cain For Fans Of: Caroline Polachek, Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and Ghost of Tom Joad Albums, Gummo, Terrance Malick movies,...
Wave of Disorder
When doom was too much Sometime in the Summer of 2018, I can't remember which month, I was detailed to support US Army recruiters in the Research Triangle...
Special: The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
If I heard this feature before I started the newsletter I would have called it Waves of Sound instead of Here to Listen. One of the co-founders of Stars of...
You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"Suffer Louder" by Cult Leader Spotify Link Bandcamp Link YouTube Link Apple Music Link For Fans Of: KEN Mode, Converge, Yautja, Sumac
Loud Love Songs #2
Getting to Tommy Keene Tracking The Replacements progression of sound across time is similar to a lot of bands. If they last long enough, they usually get...
You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"Turning on Blue" by Tommy Keene Spotify Link YouTube Link Apple Music Link For Fans of: The Replacements, Nick Lowe, Paul Westerberg, Webbed Wing, The...
Loud Love Songs
Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, and Tommy Keene: A Two Parter I don't know how much I actually owe to the "Grunge Movie". I know definitively that it...
You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week
"Black Veils" by Open City Bandcamp Link Spotify Link YouTube Link Apple Music Link For Fans of: Fugazi...stupit. And Gouge Away. And maybe Capra.
Crust-type beat
Spewn-from-the-Earth-type vocals I was originally going to write something about Poison Ruin's new album Harvest. Then I recognized the feature that pulled...
You'll Make it to the End Try #2: Song of the Week (Didn't have no stinkin linkin)
"Kingdom" by Steve Marino For Fans Of: Teenage Fanclub, Webbed Wing, Oasis, Third Eye Blind, The Lemonheads
You'll Make it to the End: Song of the Week (Attempt 2: Didn't have no stinkin linkin)
"Kingdom" by Steve Marino For Fans Of: Teenage Fanclub, Webbed Wing, Oasis, Third Eye Blind, The Lemonheads
Deceitful memory music
Was it as good as I remember? For the past few months, I've been listening to Pony's album "Velveteen"--all the way through or doing my part to boost the...
Inspired bands are better: Van Halen is just a loud R & B group
Van Halen is just a loud R & B group Not because they covered Roy Orbison, Martha and the Vandellas, and Dee Dee Warwick. I've always had the feeling while...