<>next song •OLDER POST •NEWER POST It's no facsimile, but if you can be swept away from time to time by Coldplay you'll like "Wherever You Are" by an Irish rock band called Kodaline. —Sarah Torribio

The remastered film is a sharper black and white production with a humorous story line. If you did not see it in 1964, then see it soon. Several generations of your family might enjoy it.

<>next song NEWER POST OLDER POST My song of the day is "Head Over Heels" by the Go Go's off their 1984 album Talk Show. How underrated is this band? And how adorable is keyboardist Charlotte Caffey? —Sarah Torribio

The news is full of actors and musicians that die young. This is the story of one that was friendly and polite beyond imagination and successful, yet almost unknown outside Reggae.

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<>next song OLDER POST NEWER POST Isn't this about the best song ever? "Don't Change" by INXS is my song of the day. —Sarah Torribio

Who had a Ned's Atomic Dustbin album in the early '90s? The guitar on "Happy" is absolutely delicious. < < Previous song > > Next song

<>next song "The Eye" by Brandi Carlile is as close to perfect as a song gets. The harmonies, too, with the three voices blending are indescribably good. —Sarah Torribio

<>next song "Foreign Tides" by RY X is a great song I'm into at the moment, meaning I just discovered it on the LetsLoop music-sharing site. It's like the Silversun Pickups crossed with the Police. Of course, making 'educated generalizations" like that makes me sound as pretentious as I am. Also, I'm not even confident in their accuracy. I think you need as least three band coordinates to make the old "crossed with" work. Like I might say the Killers sound like a mix of The Smiths plus Dire Straits plus the Neon Trees plus Queen plus Thin Lizzy plus the Strokes in their more disco-esque moments— but only after you add spiked Dr. Pepper to the concoction. Pretentious but you get an idea. "Foreign Tides" is a little brooding for a weekday, but still I think this song is worth a share. —Sarah Torribio

This weekend, I went to a wedding where I had the great joy of gathering on the dance floor with many relatives. You haven't lived until you've seen my 87-year-old great-aunt Lorrie cut a rug to tunes like "Dynamite." by Taio Cruz. ˜ And while the video is basically a jiggle show for the men-folk, "Dynamite" IS an amazingly catchy song. Picture the scene. You're at the wedding of your cousin, someone you've seen only a handful of times over the years but for whom you are developing a slow-burn familial affection. You're talking to another relative who's "blood," but you can't quite figure out how. You've just complimented her beaded blouse and she's telling you why she hates her job. Suddenly, Taio Cruz summons you to put your hands in the air. And you're at a wedding, so you're obviously, like him, wearing all your favorite brands—or at least are in a presentable state. So you bid goodbye to your cousin/aunt twice removed, saying, "Girl, I've gotta catch up with you later, because they're playing my jam." Chances are, she gets it. <> next song

<>next song •OLDER POST •NEWER POST Oh, the glamorous desperation of Interpol. Lead singer Paul Banks sounds like he's been talking to God until he's nearly hoarse, nervously twisting the phone cord, only to find there's no one on the line. Likewise, Banks' baritone seems to echo in a deserted auditorium, evoking the same kind of Bell Jar-claustrophobia affected by Ian Curtis of Joy Division. His delivery can be heard to fine affect in their most well-known song, "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Curtis and Banks' also share a languor of delivery that tolerates or even demands the occasional flat note. It makes for a doomed charisma. For a more upbeat Interpol song, try "Evil." The baseline is downright jaunty, comparatively speaking, and has some Kim Deal-esque bounce to it. It's easily among my top hundred basslines. —Sarah Torribio

Vhils est le plus célèbre street-artiste portugais. Il est mondialement connu grâce à son art singulier : pas de peintures, pas de bombes aérosols, pas de

<> next song I'm really loving a new song called "Lucky Girl" by Fazerdaze. It's a lovely miasmic, shoe-gazey, dream-poppy and timeless piece of indy alt rock. Fazerdaze is actually Amelia Murray and she's from New Zealand. Her debut album on the Flying Nun record label is called Morningside. She's way cute, which has never really harmed a musical career. I'm going to have to steal a description of the song from an article by Chris on the Gorilla vs. Bear site, because it's better than anything I can come up with for this sweet tune: "Here's a perfect burst of swooning, happy-sad bedroom guitar-pop sunshine. . ." —Sarah Torribio

The news is full of actors and musicians that die young. This is the story of one that was friendly and polite beyond imagination and successful, yet almost unknown outside Reggae.

<>next song My song of the day is "Harmony Hall" by Vampire Weekend. I'm just starting to delve into this band and I'm liking it a lot. Goth name. Melancholy subject matter (heartbreak, existential angst, etc.) Super happy-making music. I'm gonna delve into their discography and it's likely they'll end up on my blog again. —Sarah Torribio

<>next song I was just listening to "Buffalo Gals" by Malcolm McLaren for the first time in years. And I realized that the song and the video are so cool as to be futuristic. This pop-rap tune (is that a genre?) was made in 1982 and if it were released today, it would be the hottest single in the country We're talking able to knock. Kanye off the charts, or at least tie with him. According to Wikipedia, Malcolm McLaren was "an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way. He is best known as promoter and manager of bands such as the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols." Talk about a polymath. —Sarah Torribio"

<>next song I graduated from high school in 1992, so I was knee-deep in the grunge scene as I started college. I loved Smashing Pumpkins and got to see them twice, once hoisted on a friend's shoulders at Lollapalooza. I bought Nirvana's Nevermind the first time I heard the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on the radio. And I was way into riot grrls. "Miss World" off the "Live Through this" album was the first song I ever picked out on guitar. I had albums like Nemesisters by Babes in Toyland. and Sonic Youth's Goo and Daydream Nation. But somehow I missed the Afghan Whigs, though I heard their name. I just stumbled across "Debonair" and the accompanying video. The song and video strike me as nihilistic but there's no doubt this song rocks. I'm going to delve into the Afghan Whigs and their angsty and sardonic lead singer Greg Dulli. It's never too late to catch up on music that should have crossed your path earlier. —Sarah Torribio

Songs from the Xanadu soundtrack might seem like an exercise in cheesy nostalgia. The work by ELO featured in the movie/musical, however, are wonderful. Here is "I'm Alive." It's wonderful music for 1979, and for today. Oh yeah, and since I am from the '80s, listening to songs from the soundtrack are also an exercise in cheesy nostalgia. My sister Andrea, two years older, and I had the album and listened to it religiously. << previous song >> next song

<>next song Sitting down to do some writing stuff, I feel a slight depression and a sense of weight on my shoulders, hampering my creativity and forward movement. What should I do. What if there were a song that could cure this malaise. Oh, yeah, there is. Wait for it. . . My song of the day is "Let's Dance" by David Bowie. The lyrics are so bomb: "under the moonlight, the serious moonlight." —Sarah Torribio

The music and fine arts scenes in Nashville are expanding in the 2010s and jobs in healthcare are increasing. Amazon.com built a new facility in Nashville and tourist attractions are more popular than ever. This might be your next move.

L’univers enchanté de Pierre et Gilles est exposé à la Philharmonie de Paris, un monde surréel où les chanteurs populaires deviennent des icônes religieuses pop

<>next song My song of the day is "Don't Go" by Moaning. I've decided rather than just finding a song here or there that I like by a band, something I often do while perusing the music recommending site letsloop, I'm going to go a bit deeper. No low-attention span hummingbird, I. I'm beginning with Moaning, an indie rock/post punk outfit that has a forthcoming album called Uneasy Laughter. They sound English, but are Los Angeles-based, I hear from the inter webs. They're signed to Sub Pop Records. They have a layered orchestral sound that will appeal to those with a penchant for dark wave, a la Joy Division/early New Order and The Cure. The guitars, though, occasionally rise above and beyond the quagmire of sadness to become a fuzzy rocket ship of energy. Smashing Pumpkins? Sonic Youth? I tend to get myself in trouble when I try to triangulate music. All I can say is Moaning has mood for days. —Sarah Torribio

<< last song >>next song "End of the Party" by the English Beat, featuring Dave Wakeling's glorious vibrato and some saxophone glamour, is making me so happy right now. —Sarah Torribio

<>next song If you don't like "Sweet Jane" by The Cowboy Junkies before you're 40, you don't have a heart. If you don't like this song after you're 40, you don't have a brain. —Sarah Torribio

"Love Plus One" by Haircut 100 is arguably the happiest song ever written. And in a frivolous note, doesn't Haircut 100's lead singer Nick Heyward have a lovely, rosy-cheeked complexton? < < Previous Song > >Next song

The enigmatic and mysterious Sun Ra was born Herman Blount in 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama. He would go on to lead one of the greatest jazz bands of all time with a repertoire that encompassed the entire history of American jazz from ragtime to Free. His early life was a fairly straightforward progress of a prodigious musical talent emerging as a pianist, composer and arranger, making his way in the world with a respectable if unremarkable career. However his path was altered beyond measure due to a life-changing event in the late 1930′s. Our protagonist had a mystical, out of body experience. He described it himself…’a bright light appeared around him. His body was transformed and he was transported to another planet, (which he was later able to identify as Saturn). He spoke of being in the presence of other-worldly figures who were benevolent towards him and gave him advice about the direction his music should take, and his own personal destiny as an artist on earth. This is a classical alien abduction story but what marks it out as specially unusual was the fact that it occurred a good ten years before the concept of aliens and flying saucers entered the public consciousness (or the collective subconscious?). This event shifted the whole focus of his life. (continue reading Sun Ra: The Ancient and Heliocentric World by makmedthemiller) We Must Not Say No to Ourselves we must not say no to ourselves for the greater deed we must not say can't if it is imperative that we should we must not synchronize with anything less than art-wise dignity it is either that we are cosmic giants of achievement, or something less than the greater super self across the thunder bridge of time we rush with lightning feet to join hands with those the friends of seers who truly say and truly do this planet is doomed the science fiction poetry of Sun Ra Kicks Books (2011) p 47 And Also... Sun Ra among 2013 inductees to Alabama Music Hall of Fame