Battlestar Eclectic
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Category: song of the day
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I adore this song by Djo. Frontman Joe Keery just happens to be the actor who plays Steve Harrington in ‘Stranger Things.” He’s quite the crooner in this mellow, wistful, elegiac anthem. It gets sky-high points for Inventive lyrics–“enter troubadour”–,twinkling keys and a dynamic build. –Sarah Torribio <<last post >>next post Listen to more songs…
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Why is this song such a banger? I tend to dismiss Avril Lavigne as a musical lightweight, or forget about her from time to time as she’s a bit reclusive, relatively speaking. She surprises again and again, though, with compelling songs. Even when her lyrics are teenage simple, her voice and delivery proves moving. Avril…
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This electro-pop/dream-pop release by Nicole Miglis, “Wherever I Go,” is quietly emotive. It’s thickly layered & pensive, with world music undertones. (Are you playing the zither or are you just happy to see me?) It makes the listener feel like a stranger in a strange land. –Sarah Torribio <<last post >>next post Listen to more…
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This new offering by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird is arresting and inventive. Bird is as genre-bending as Beck in “Capital I,” which throws roots rock, chamber-pop and alt-rock into the sonic blender. This hot-off-the-presses showcases Andrew Bird’s mastery of strings and the strange. –Sarah Torribio <<last post >> next post Listen to more songs…
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I’m going to say something controversial. If I were to pick my top 200 albums–the ones I can listen to from cover to cover–I’d throw in Sponge’s Rotting Pinata. One of the offerings, “Pennywheels” is eccentric, strange of subject, and its lyrics obscure, more tribal chant than narrative “Hey-hey-ey-ey-ey-ya.” It starts with a quiet, watchful…
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What a great interview with Mike Joyce (November 6, 2025) in the Guardian! Joyce, who has just released an autobiography called “Drums,” gives an up-close description of Morrissey’s recording process. Moz liked to record in a pitch-black studio! It’s fitting. Morrissey’s memoir of a few years back had it’s good points, including a beautiful, empathetic…
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My self-care routine includes I have to listen to “Down by the Sea” off the Business as Usual album by Men at Work at least once a month. It’s is echoing, lonely, quiet, still and chill. It has a stony, hypnotic feel. It’s like a giant granite Buddha that gathers all my stress into a…
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When it comes to Tori Amos’ “Under the Pink,” forget “Cornflake Girl.” Try “Pretty Good Year,” a honey-voiced wist-fest filled with characteristically oblique metaphor. It’s like I don’t know what she’s talking about, but I do. Maybe Tori Amos’ warm, octave-straddling voice and star-spangled fingers are filling in the banks. “Pretty Good Year” is an…
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Me during the pandemic. The song is “555” by Jimmy Eat World off the band’s 2019 album Surviving. –Sarah Torribio <<last post >>next post Listen to more songs of the day HERE
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There was a lot of Counting Crows for me in 1993. I was very into the August and Everything After CD. My sister and I went on to see Counting Crows at the Greek Theatre in Hollywood. It’s a wonderful venue and that night was made by turns magical by a downpour and annoying thankss…