Category: Song of the Day

A song a day, every day. From brand new tunes to elderly classics. We don’t promise to be constrained by genre, but we promise to recommend brilliant music.

#248 Grand Old Grizzly – The Sundowners

Learn how to get your music heard at ReverbNation.com Country music is not what it was. The glitz and the glamour that will surround tonight’s Country Music Awards in Nashville bears little relation to the ‘white man’s blues’ of old,…

#247 Simian Ghost – Be My Wife

Sweden’s Simian Ghost have new material on the way in the form of a rather lovely-sounding single called ‘A Million Shining Colours’. It would be remiss of us though not to flag up this blissful cover of David Bowie’s ‘Be…

#246 James Vincent McMorrow – Cavalier

James Vincent McMorrow Cavalier Video

The first single off James Vincent McMorrow’s January 2014 release Post Tropical, ‘Cavalier’ is a chill, falsetto memorial to a first love that’s well and truly over. The shattered-sounding vocal, which fills the space of the song with chest-aching loss…

#245 The Staves – Mexico

The Staves are on tour at the moment, which is easily excuse enough for us to bang on about how amazing they are all over again. This session recording of ‘Mexico’ – on a beach and then, when the rain…

#244 Mutual Benefit – “Let’s Play” / Statue Of A Man

Well this is a bit bloody lovely, isn’t it? Mutual Benefit is the project of Jordan Lee, who got a bunch of friends to help him record his debut album, Love’s Crushing Diamond. It’s a project that has gathered a…

#243 Davy & Amelia – Norah June

Husband and wife duo Davy & Amelia are expecting a baby. A baby girl. And they’re planning to call her Norah June. Before she’s even born, she’s got a song and an EP named after, but really what she has…

#242 We/Or/Me – Lights Inside Us

The Walking Hour by We/Or/Me We/Or/Me is the recording name of Bahhaj Taherzadeh, a chap with roots in Ireland but a home in Chicago, and he has just put out his album The Walking Hour. It opens with the rather…

#241 Lily & Madeleine – Sounds Like Somewhere

We’ve been more than a bit obsessed with new Asthmatic Kitty band Lily & Madeleine since they came into our lives. Sounds Like Somewhere is taken from their self-titled album. Madeleine said of the record: “Sad isn’t bad, but if we…

#240 Heidi Talbot and King Creosote – Button Up

This beautiful collaboration came about after Kenny Anderson AKA King Creosote was asked to pick his dream band in an interview with the Independent. He picked Heidi Talbot and Morten Harket from A-ha on joint lead vocals. Kenny and Heidi…

#239 Sea of Bees – Leaving

This cover of John Denver’s Leaving on a Jetplane is on Sea of Bees second album Orangefarben. Here’s Jules Baenziger and Amber Padget with a lovely live version for Secret TV with some of the prettiest harmonies you’re ever likely…