Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Kitten – Japanese Eyes

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When I saw Kitten live, it was a 1 pm afternoon show on a 30 degree day in sunny Texas. Despite that, Kitten was dressed all black, which made me wonder about their sanity. Despite the excruciating heat, the band put together an energetic set featuring Chloe Chaidez, the fireball of a front woman for the band. It was a good set but due to poor sounding, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of their music.

Japanese Eyes is a song off their debut Cut it Out and its good. It sounds like it comes from the mid to late 90s with its grungy guitar sound and pure badass attitude. A perfect approximation of the set I saw in Texas, check it out.

As a present, here is Uncle Joey with his famous phrase.

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Song of the Day: Kristine – (We Used to Listen to the) Radio

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What gets you more pumped for summer, beaches and sweaty parties than 80’s power pop!? Kristine, who I don’t know much about other than that she’s from Greece and really loves the 80’s, released the EP Modern Love in 2012 (which you definitely need to check out). On June 28th, she released two songs: Wild Heart and (We Used to Listen to the) Radio. If you want to recapture the 80’s better than most of the “new wave” bands that are coming out today, visualize palm trees and rollerblading down a pavilion in a bikini (or short shorts), listen to this jam.

 

 

Song of the Day: Free Energy – Electric Fever

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It’s JULY already. This means it’s warm outside and the days are long. It also means it’s cottage season, so fire up those grills, pack up your knapsack and latch onto any white friends you have who have cottages. For me, cottages are about good times and classic rock. I think this is because one of the groups of people I go to cottages with love classic rock and we always end up listening to a local radio station at the cottage. It’s almost always Saturday all request night and all the the requests go something like this:

DJ: “Hey there, what you want to listen?”
Dude: “Hey man, long time listener, first time caller. Really enjoy your show. Me and the boys are here sitting in the garage downing some buds and would love to listen to some Rush”

Nevertheless, classic rock sounding bands have a place in my heart.

This brings me to Free Energy. This American rock act recently released their sophomore album Love Sign and it’s the exact type of record you carry out with you to your nearest lake. Big guitar bursts, frequent cowbells and feel good lyrics populate this record and it’ll have you reaching for your bell bottom jeans in no time.

Check out Electric Fever for starters

Song Of The Day: Melvins – In Every Dream Home A Heartache

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One expects a certain level of weirdness from The Melvins and frankly, after 30 years, they’ve certainly earned the right to follow whatever creative whims they choose. In fact, I find that they’re often at their best when also indulging in their most “out there” impulses.  One of my favourite albums of theirs is Prick, the experimental noise goof off that they released at the height of their mainstream popularity. So while weirdness is expected, their latest, Everybody Loves Sausages, shows that the band still are able to throw us a a bit of a curveball every now and then.  It’s  a covers album ,which for many bands signals a switch to creative cruise control. The Melvins, however, throw in a few unexpected choices of cover material and use it as an opportunity for collaboration, something they’ve often done in the past, and the results, while mixed, are often quite enjoyable.

One of the more interesting tracks on the album is their cover of Roxy Music’s “In Every Dream Home A Heartache,” featuring Jello Biafra on vocals. Biafra’s take on the song comes across as part tribute to Brian Ferry and part mocking parody. And then the last couple minutes or so of the song are dominated by crazy phaser effects because of course it is. It’s The Melvins after all.