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Song of the Week 07/17/2026

Andrew Sa - Your Whisper

Super late this week as I'm traveling for work, here's some achingly gorgeous alt-country. The dazed, awestruck disbelief of love permeates like falling rain outside the window.

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Song of the Week 07/10/2026

Lucy Dacus - Planting Tomatoes

Lucy's best song in years is a sun-dazed meditation on death and loss which unravels like a summer afternoon. Coming paired with a beautiful, life-affirming video tribute to Richmond is a nice bonus.

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Song of the Week 07/03/2026

Piebald - American Hearts

And I say sir,

well have you heard

that this country is unequal still?

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Song of the Week 06/26/2026

Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys

The Pheebz is back with a song and video that feels laser-targeted at misfit nerds who played too much Runescape.

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Song of the Week 06/20/2026

Bobby Prince - Sign of Evil

RIP to video game music legend Bobby Prince. E1M1 AKA At Doom's Gate is the one everybody knows, one of the most recognizable pieces of video game music of all time, an absolutely immortal banger, but to me, E1M8 AKA Sign of Evil is the one that really captures the soul of Doom. The sense of utter desolation, completely alone, knee-deep in the dead on the shores of Hell.

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Song of the Week 06/12/2026

Odyssey - Native New Yorker (12" Disco Mix)

I'm not a sports guy, but I am a New Yorker, and it's been hard not to get swept up in Knicks fever this past week. Everyone's been bumping Empire State of Mind, which I insist is a bad song, bump this instead! It sounds like New York in the summertime. I'm not a native New Yorker myself, but my daughter is, so this one goes out to her. Knicks in 5.

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Song of the Week 06/05/2026

Daydream Plus - Speed Limit

Dreamy, nostalgic, vaguely mathy, vaguely video-game-inspired instrumental rock by some of the dudes from Tomb Mold (???). I guess when you need a break from psychedelic death metal about intergalactic slugs, you make breezy jams that sound like a warm summer night playing Mega Man with your buds.

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Song of the Week 05/29/2026

Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

Coming in super late because I was at my friends' wedding last weekend. This one goes out to them. If you know, you know. There will be a light on in the tavern, always.

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Song of the Week 05/22/2026

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance

It's Memorial Day weekend, which means it's officially Tom Petty Season once again.

I feel summer creeping in...

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Song of the Week 05/15/2026

Clarence Carter - Strokin'

RIP to the clown prince of horniness. Strokin' is one of the funniest songs ever made, a true American classic.

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Song of the Week 05/08/2026

Phoebe Bridgers - Scott Street

Walking through Flatiron and Chelsea on my way home late last night, past the place where I worked for almost 10 years which is now long gone, in a part of town I haven't been to in years, listening to this song, feelin' like a stranger.

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Song of the Week 05/01/2026

Thin Lizzy - Wild One

Thin fuckin' Lizzy. That's it. That's the post.

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Song of the Week 04/24/2026

At the Gates - In Dark Distortion

This is rage against the dying of the light in literal form. As far as swan songs go, it's an absolute motherfucker. RIP Tompa. Hail Satan.

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Song of the Week 04/17/2026

Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere

It's been a minute since a Kacey song really clicked with me, but I've said it before and I'll say it again - I'm a sucker for some pedal steel swells. Throw in some lyrics about fucking off and dropping out of society, and you've got a keeper!

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Song of the Week 04/10/2026

Converge - Hum of Hurt

Converge have absolutely no business sounding this feral this deep into their career. Dudes are unstoppable.

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Song of the Week 04/03/2026

Lureplasm - Luridysic Heirloom (Red Vase Hallucinogens)

Goregrind is not usually my thing, but Lureplasm are so sneakily melodic and surprisingly bouncy that I don't even mind the gurgle vox!

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Song of the Week 03/27/2026

Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek

I'll admit that I totally thought this was a gimmick band at first, but silly costumes aside, these guys really know how to lay down a nasty groove. God bless Canadian weirdos.