Song of the Day - Sympathy - Vampire Weekend

One of my favorite songs on Vampire Weekend's new and awesome Father of the Bride album is this high energy banger called Sympathy. Check it out and have a great Saturday...

Song of the Day - Nervous Energy - Glades

This tune, by Australian indie pop band Glades, was one I had bookmarked back when it was first released a few weeks ago, but the quality of it really hit me just the other day.  Check out Nervous Energy...

Song of the Day - Started Out - Georgia

Even though I haven't been spotlighting songs on my New Music Fridays posts lately (hopefully that will be returning soon!), it doesn't mean I haven't been checking out new music.  Here's a relatively new one by indie artist Georgia and I screenshotted the tune on Spotify when it came on my car radio so I'd remember to post it.  The song's got a nice, late night chill vibe and though the video is a little, well, offbeat, the tune is very smooth.  Check out Started Out...

Song of the Day - Go Baby Go - Beth Ditto

It's so funny how things work sometimes.  It was last summer that I first discovered the very cool Beth Ditto, who had just released her first solo album, Fake Sugar.  The former lead singer of the dance-punk band Gossip incorporated a lot of different genres into this work and the hip, retro sounds of In and Out got me hooked on first listen.  After hearing it yesterday morning I had decided I was going to revisit that one, but then I had a spontaneous dinner with my pal Sonny and she had this one on her playlist in the car.  Go Baby Go is another one of those funkdified, head bopping tunes that'll get ya moving every time.  Too bad there isn't a vid for this one, so you're just going to have to settle for the audio of Go Baby Go...  

Song of the Day - Club Noir - Apache Sun

Here's a song I found on a compilation album I downloaded recently on iTunes called 30th Century Records Compilation.  It's by a Glasgow-based pair of brothers who call themselves Apache Sun. On the band's webpage, Kris Mitchell and Pete Bruce dub themselves a "psych-rock band," and that just about sums up their unique sound.  Everything I've read about and heard from them since I discovered this song has been aces all the way and I am definitely a new fan.  

This particular tune has been culled an enchanting and haunting psychedelic nugget with the Arabesque chords emphasizing their exotic side and emitting a noir magic taken from a fairytale that's suitable only for adults ( Sound Injections).  Exactly!  I loved Club Noir the first time I heard it...kind of reminds me of a song from a James Bond film soundtrack, or even something great to jam to at a rock club.  Check it out...