Category: song of the day
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Oh, Matt Skiba. Why can’t I stay away? I’m a sucker for high gothic romance. You’ve got to suffer for love, or else what’s the point? Musically speaking, I mean. My song of the day is ‘Krazy’ off the 2015 album Kuts by Matt Skiba and the Sekrets. You may recognize Skiba from his unnaturally…
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In one level of hell, denizens slave away, positioned in a vast mechanical assembly line. They aren’t even a cog in the wheel. They are a cog in a cog in the wheel. Meanwhile, ‘Wild Sex (in the Working Class)’ by Oingo Boingo plays on an inexorable loop. –Sarah Torribio <<last post >>next post See…
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Tóxica by Lido Pimienta is unsettling, but there’s a dark allure. The singer is over toxic relationships, and we can all celebrate her establishing boundaries. This woman scorned has not moved on yet, though, and so she chants her disapproval, sometimes even snarls it. It’s more curse than lament. Lido Pimienta is Columbian. Latin America…
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If you like Foster the People, you’ll dig “Lost” by indie pop outfit almost monday. It’s simple math–the transitive property. –Sarah Torribio <<last post >>next post See more songs of the day curated by Sarah Torribio HERE
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‘Neurodivergent’ by Inpatient is a live wire of a song, It’s constantly moving, spiraling, like the overstimulated mind of someone on the wrong side of the spectrum. There’s a thin, wiry baseline, very post-punk. It moves forward tentatively, as if it knows it’s going to edge into something nasty or spooky. It’s nearly a Bauhaus…
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I’m still mulling over decades’ worth of my top 100 songs of the year. Like, literally, I haven’t sorted out 1987. However, I suspect that when I finally rate the best songs of 2025, ‘Last of England’ by Patrick Wolf will be hovering near the top. It’s a beautiful and bitter anthem. –Sarah Torribio <<last…
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I love girl groups, brat rock, riot grlls, power pop, post-punk. Indie music is popping, and you’re never too old to throw a tantrum. My song of the day is “Maniac” by Kid Sistr. <<last post >>next post See more songs of the day curated by Sarah Torribio HERE
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My mind is boggling. I had no idea that The Church was an Australian band, more specifically from Sydney. Until this moment’s googelry, I was sure the alt-rock outfit hailed from a dark Scottish moor. I had two things I wanted to find out about The Church this evening. The first was the lead singer’s…
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‘Straight Line is a Lie,’ the title track of The Beths’ 2025 album, is a treasure of a song. Lead singer Elizabeth Stokes has a conversational delivery that makes the band’s songs intimates. You are not a voyeur as she talks about heartbreak and hope. You’re a guest. The Beths, a band straight outta New…
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Today’s song of the day is “Sleep to Dream” by Fiona Apple, off her gorgeous and endlessly bold debut album Tidal. This alt-rock queen is such a bad-ass and talented singer-songwriter. The album came out when she was only 18, pressaging the precocity of teen sonstresses Lorde and Billie Eilish by many years. Produced by her…