Hot Song for 9.14.15 – Sleep / Noradrenaline
Chris and Dan argue about whether The Cranberries deserve to be a reference point in today's dream pop scene and once and how feasible it is to connect to...
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Hot Song for 9.11.15 – We Are Golden / Them Changes
This Friday's special feature is a Tastemaker's Tour, wherein Dan and Chris share two of the resources they rely on for finding quality new music in this bloated day...
LISTEN HEREHot Song for 9.9.15 – Ontario Morning / Fired Up
Chris and Dan argue about just exactly how nostalgic people are for 2005 and whether a song can be both unabashedly drunken and expertly constructed, featuring new tracks from...
LISTEN HEREHot Song for 9.4.15 – Don’t Give Up (On Love) / Affairs
This Friday's special feature is a Genre Watch, zooming in specifically on the growing trend to implement the Korg M1 keyboard into house, dance, and indie music, making so...
LISTEN HEREHot Song for 9.2.15 – Sleeper Hold / A Long Time Ago
Chris and Dan argue about straddling the thin line between pleasant and boring and whether atmospherics and obfuscated vocals are a distraction or an access point for people bored...
LISTEN HEREHot Song for 8.31.15 – Poolside / Meaning & Truth
Chris and Dan argue about the benefits and detriments of the ever-increasing explosion of indie microlabels and what a pop-rock song with four chords has to do to earn...
LISTEN HEREHot Song for 8.28.15 – Where Are U Now / Can’t Feel My Face
This Friday's special feature is a Top 40 Rundown which doubles as a wrap-up discussion on the Song of the Summer 2K15, running down the Billboard Summer Songs chart...
LISTEN HEREHot Song for 8.26.15 – Slumlord / Another World
Chris and Dan argue about how much disco the chillwave genre can appropriately handle and whether it's really possible for the average music lover to discern whether or not...
LISTEN HEREHot Song for 8.24.15 – Bite Me / A Distant Glow
Chris and Dan argue about how a power pop artist can follow Drake's career trajectory and what the purist definition of ambient music is, featuring two currently beloved songs...
LISTEN HEREHot Song for 8.17.15 – It’s Not Real / Psychic Reader
Chris and Dan argue about how to do dream pop without the apathy (or drugs) and how to do by-the-numbers indie rock without bad intentions (or a lack of...
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