Today's Swell Tune: Mad Dog

Black Lips - Mad Dog

• Band: Black Lips
• Album: Arabia Mountain
• From: Atlanta Georgia, United Satates
  
• Sound: Is there such a thing as "mod punk?" ; lo-fi garage punk
• Website: black-lips.com/
• Social: facebook, twitter, blogspot

Today's Swell Tune: Bad Intentions

Bad Intentions (Single Mix) - Shona Foster

• Artist: Shona Foster
• Album: The Moon and You
• From: Brighton, England
• Sound: Like the Tori Amos of 1992 took a time machine to 1942 to do a number at a nightclub ; piano pop
• Website: shonafoster.com
• Bandcamp: shonafoster.bandcamp.com
• Social: facebook, twitter

Today's Swell Tune: The Great Fire

• Band: Future Islands
• Album: On the Water
• From: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Sound: I don't believe I've ever used the word 'breathtaking' in a sentence before ; new wave, synthpop.
• Website: future-islands
• Social: facebook, twitter, tumblr, myspace

Monday Morning Cover: Let's Do It

Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg:

The Original*:

Cole Porter:

*It's preeeeeetty racist, originally.

Saturday Night Remix: Mirrorage

Glasser- Mirrorage 

into:

Glasser - Mirrorage (SUUNS Remix) 

Friday's Forgotten Song: Earth, Sky & C.

I Mother Earth

Album: Scenery and Fish

1996

Today's Swell Tune: Fire!

Baby Baby - Fire!

• Band: Baby Baby
• Album: Money
• From: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Sound: Like they put on a Hell of a live show. And like Violent Femmes might have a case against that opening riff... ; They brand themselves "Fun Rock," and I'm gonna ahead and brand an "indie" into that ass, too.
• Social: facebook twitter
• Download free:  here

Today's Swell Tune: Dreamer

Dreamer by elizaveta

• Artist: Elizaveta
• Album: (EP) Elizaveta (full album due Jan 2012)
• From: Born NYC, Raised in Russia. The exact reverse of...
• Sound: I'm just gonna say it--Regina Spektor. Just a lot like that, but a bit synthier; pop opera (has anyone coined "popera" yet? Let's not talk to them, if they do.)
• Website: www.elizaveta.com
• Social: facebook ; twitter
• Video: youtube.com/elizavetamusic

Today's Swell Tune: Baby Missiles

• Band: The War On Drugs
• Album: Slave Ambient
• From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Sound: The best Bruce Springsteen song not written by Bruce Springsteen. Or Win Butler. ; indie rock.
• Website: thewarondrugs.net/
• Social: twitter

Friday's Forgotten Song: God Damn Job

 

God Damn Job* (The Replacements)

The Replacements

Album: Stink

1982

*This one goes out to the 1%.

Today's Swell Tune: Act on Impulse

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Act On Impulse

   

• Band: We Were Promised Jetpacks
• Album: In the Pit of the Stomach
• From: Edinburgh, Scotland
• Sound: Sometimes a song just seems to be about you...your thoughts...how and what you've been living... ...Screw you guys--it's my blog; indie rock, post punk
• Website: wewerepromisedjetpacks.co.uk
• Social:  facebook, myspace