Category: Song of the Day

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#591 Marshall Lewis – Not a Mechanical Dance of Atoms

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#590 Mutual Benefit – The Hereafter

Mutual Benefit (AKA Jordan Lee) will release new album Skip A Sinking Stone later this month and has today unveiled the album’s closing track ‘The Hereafter’. The new album is in large part a reflection on the success of debut…

#589 James McCartney – Too Hard

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM-0oNkY0kY&w=560&h=315] When Paul McCartney is your father, it can be hard to develop your own independent career as a musician. Fortunately, James McCartney does not need to rely on his namesake to grow as his own musician. The single…

#588 Crosby, Stills & Nash – Guinevere

Sadly, it seems Crosby, Stills & Nash (and occasionally Young) are now definitively over in any form. First there was Young’s feud with Crosby over comments the former Byrd made about his girlfriend Daryl Hannah, and then Graham Nash took…

#587 Stornoway – We Are the Battery Human

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-QXey3gPk&w=420&h=315] While testing out speakers at a department store, I was introduced to ‘Zorbing’ by Stornoway. This introductory song led me to download all of Beachcombers Windowsill. Full circle, today’s song of the day is ‘We are the Battery…

#586 Family of the Year – Carry Me

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFzq-3qGli4&w=560&h=315] Family of the Year were put on the map when their single ‘Hero’ was featured in the iconic outro scene of Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe winning film Boyhood. With a collected 90 million streams on YouTube and Spotify, ‘Hero’…

#585 Frightened Rabbit – Swim Until You Can’t See Land

For Folk's Sake Frightened Rabbit Band Live Review

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzjERZU3wbY&w=420&h=315] I feel like I should write some prolific post about relaunching Song of the Day and our mission statement to provide you with daily song suggestions in hopes of expanding your musical taste, but instead, I have chosen…

Listen | case/lang/veirs share new track ‘Best Kept Secret’

With the upcoming release of their eponymous debut record case/lang/veirs, these three titans of modern alternative folk have shared ‘Best Kept Secret’, a slice of orchestral beauty. Breezy and bright, the track is a homage to L.A, and is destined…

Premiere | Matthew the Oxx – Beyond the Gates

We’re very pleased to premiere brand new track ‘Beyond the Gates’ from Matthew the Oxx, taken from his debut album First Aid for the Drowning. Matthew the Oxx (real name Matthew Oldfield) is Mike Oldfield’s nephew and counts Leonard Cohen as…

#584 Caroline Rose – Blood On Your Bootheels

It’s one of the great tragedies that afflicts American society. Gun violence, and the number of innocent victims caught up in it, seems like a storyline that will never go away. That is why Caroline Rose chose to tackle the…