Song: “Wish You Were Here” [Pink Floyd cover] Artist: Lia Ices Pink Floyd is pretty hallowed ground, as far as my rock history fandom is concerned, so I wasn’t sure what to expect from Lia Ices. Her hauntingly pretty, mellow dreampop debut, Grown Unknown, made an impression on me last year, but I’ve lost touch [...]

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Song: Catalpa Artist: Young Brokaw I’m a sucker for songs with spelling lessons.”C-A-T-A-L-P-A” shouted over eighth note guitar strums is music to my ears. Young Brokaw transport me back to mid ’90s awesomeness with this careening indie pop rock gem about a certain genus of flowering plants (or an album by Jolie Holland or a [...]

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Song: “Shake Can Well” Artist: Boom Chick I never, ever thought that the directions/warnings on an aerosol can could be converted into foot-stompin’ rock ‘n roll mayhem, but that is precisely what Boom Chick have accomplished with this tune. I honestly listened to this song three or four times before even scrolling down the page [...]

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About a month ago we announced a super duper holiday giveaway, asking you all for a paragraph about your favorite musical moment of 2011. We received a lot of great submissions. Seriously, we are stunned and humbled by what you’ve shared with us, dear readers. We wish we could print all of the stories we [...]

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Song: “In The Pines” Artist: Widowspeak There’s happiness to be found in quiet introspection, even the kind bordering on sadness. This song validates that observation, for me. Picture yourself in a snowy cabin, maybe on a skiing trip with some friends. Your legs are sore from a full day of shooshing and telemarking, and you’re [...]

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Song: “Delicate Creatures” Artist: Tim Cohen I’m really tempted to describe the haunting beauty of this tune by just copy/pasting the lyrics here, but even that won’t do it justice. Tim Cohen fronts the San Francisco psych-pop outfit The Fresh & Onlys, but in this solo track he strips away all of the trappings and [...]

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Song: “Waves” Artist: The Spires Is there a poem about poetry? Is there a novel about fiction? Is there a film about films? Maybe, but really, I have no fucking clue, and you and I and everyone we know can spend our entire lives, and then some, debating these very questions (which may or may [...]

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Song: “Little Something” Artist: Big Hurry If you know us well, you know we love Big Hurry, and if you know Big Hurry well, you’ll be just as excited about this new tune as we are. “Little Something” is actually a pretty big deal; it’s the first teaser of the band’s forthcoming Sink Or Swim [...]

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We had an extra special ticket giveaway for The Olivia Tremor Control concert last week. Normally, we just ask for some entires and pick entirely at random, but such an awesome band as OTC and the amazing people of The Carnegie Museums and The Warhol demand something more exciting! With two levels of prizes for [...]

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Song: “My Mistakes” Artist: Eleanor Friedberger This is a song about a specific moment. This is a song about a single second spent traversing a bridge. This is a song about the way our minds can jump around from time and place to time and place, both willingly and unintentionally, the way we can extract [...]

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