Worriers – You or Someone You Know: The record that truly accompanied me through this year. Every song could be my song of the year – and I plan on playing Grand Closing at midnight. Happy fucking new year. Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher: Probably the best album of the year (though I haven’t given Fiona …
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The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness” is the first single off of the coming new The National album Sleep Well Beast. I’m doing cartwheels of excitement.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
All You Fascists Bound To LoseStumbled over this Woody Guthrie cut from a 1940s radio broadcast. The other performers are Sonny Terry, Pete Seefer and Cisco Houston (probably.) BRB, need to dust off my guitar.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
What’s Making Me Happy This Week?
I want to establish a weekly series on this blog called “What’s Making Me Happy This Week,” lifted from everyone’s favorite segment on the best pop culture podcast. But somehow, despite the okay week I’ve had and the sunshine outside, it seems wrong to publish a column called “something something happy” today. You know, with the …
What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Tunde Olaniran – NamesakeThe massive chorus on this track by the artist from Flint, Michigan has been my happy place, my daily pick-me-up for a couple of weeks now (Thanks, NPR Music’s Austin 100!) Then I discovered the corresponding music video – amazing!Also great this week, but more local: …
What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Alex LaheyAlex Lahey’s EP B-Grade University is the brightest indie rock soundtrack of a post-college quarter life crisis I’ve heard in quite some time. Whether it’s the “9-to-5 headache”of “Ivy league,” the romance of “Wes Anderson” and the exploration of relationships in “Let’s Go Out” and “You Don’t Think …
What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Scottish duo Honeyblood and their charming tour video for “Babes Never Die,” the title track of their 2016 record. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
What’s Making Me Happy This Week Right NowThe moment the chorus hits on Mitski’s new single “Your Best American Girl”It’s not that the song is particularly happy, but the chorus is such a perfect piece of indie rock, it takes my breath away every time.For more on this song and Mitski, listen to this great …
What’s Making Me Happy This Week IIISpraynard live on NPR’s Bullseye with Jesse ThornI’m at a weird point in my life where I fall for punk bands recommended on NPR shows.Spraynard play the kind of emotional pop punk that will forever have a special place in my heart and mind. Brilliant. Check out their great album …
What’s Making Me Happy This Week (II)
Inspired by my favorite pop culture podcast, NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, I want to introduce a new recurring feature for my blog: A post about something (pop)cultural I’ve read, seen, or heard the past week that makes me happy.This week: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I finally saw the new installment of the great …
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