Song of the Day - Over the Sirens

Solids - Over the Sirens from Blame Confusion (2014)

Some more new stuff. This ones from Solids of Montreal who are currently on tour in North America. Sounds sort of emo fuzzy, sort of garage rock-y, and sort of noise pop-y.


Mont-really good, Canada.

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Song of the Day - Splish Splash

Wavepool Abortion - Splish Splash from Wavepool Abortion (2011)

Some Russian lo-fi garage rock stuff.


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Song of the Day - Australia

Attic Abasement - Australia from Dancing is Depressing (2010)

Happy Australia Day!





... if you live in Australia.

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Song of the Day - The Pale Horse and His Rider

Totally Ruined - The Pale Horse and His Rider from Hank Williams Compilation (2013)

A nice and easy low fidelity Hank Williams rework.



Comes from a pretty neat Hank Williams cover album put out by Birdtapes and various DIY, lo-fi, simple acoustic, bedroom, etc. bands. Check it out!

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Song of the Day - Beautiful Gurrls

Ricky Eat Acid - Beautiful Gurrls from Haunt U Forver (2011)

Sam Ray making some lo-fi beats.




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Song of the Day - BATH SALTS

Future Death - BATH SALTS from FUTURE DEATH (2013)

Reminiscent of a Zach Hill project that never was/never will be. Spastic drums, blazing guitar riffs, and distorted female vocals - oh my!


Also be on the lookout for Future Death's 2nd album due out early next year!

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Song of the Day - Jesus in the Courtyard

King Dude - Jesus in the Courtyard from Burning Daylight (2012)

King Dude is the solo project of TJ Cowgill from the black metal bands Teen Cthulhu and Book of Black Earth. His sound is very reminiscent of neofolk acts of the 80's or a black metal Leonard Cohen of sorts.

Very interesting stuff.

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Song of the Day - Indian Summer

Beat Happening - Indian Summer from Jamboree (1988)

That time of year again.

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Song of the Day - Halo

Trace Mountains - Halo (Beyonce) - Top 40 Compilation (2013)

Trace Mountains is a the side project of Spook Houses and LVL UP. Halo is a song by Beyonce.

Put those two things together and you have yourself a lo-fi, guilty-free track about feeling someone's "halo".


Check out more top 40 radio hits covered by lo-fi/indie rock/acoustic bands and compiled by Birdtapes here!

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Song of the Day - Wyatt's Song

Vacation - Wyatt's Song from Do Shit (2010)

Lo-fi pop punk from Cinci. Not to be confused with Summer Vacation or Vacations.

Those guitars in the beginning man, oh my.

You can DL Vacation's The Do Shit Disc for free at the always awesome website, If You Make It Dot Com.

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Song of the Day - Whistler's Mother's Day

Black Bear - Whistler's Mother's Day from The Cinnamon Phase (2006)

Happy Mother's Day, Mamas.

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Song of the Day - Pepsi/Coke Suicide

Elvis Depressedly - Pepsi/Coke Suicide from Holo Pleasures (2013)

Matt Cothran (also Coma Cinema) and his new album as Elvis Depressedly, entitled, Holo Pleasures is great!


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Song of the Day - Get Along Well

Safe - Get Along Well from Safe EP (2010)

Safe is Christopher F. Edley III playing some kind of minimal pop stuff.

Safe EP was "recorded in a secret way in a secret basement".

This same 'Safe' is also playing a show in Portland on April 19th with Conjjjecture, Altered Gee, Glass Fingers, and Duey Meadows at the Darkmouth Castle (on Dartmouth Street where my old dentist office was). Rumor has it this will be Glass Fingers (AKA Jesse Gertz) last show as Glass Fingers. Dundundun!

There may also be a new Safe album at said show as well.

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Song of the Day - Kowboyz&Indians

Gonjasufi - Kowboyz&Indians from A Sufi And A Killer (2010)

Heard this song for the first time today and thought it was pretty interesting. Reminds me of David Liebe Hart for some reason. Maybe if he (DLH) was really into dub and yoga...

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Song of the Day - Over and Under Ground

Grave Babies - Over and Under Ground from Crusher (2013)

Noise-y post punk whatever. Pretty hip.

Pretty hip.

You can DL this song for free over at Insound via their Free MP3s section.

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Song of the Day - I Cry (K.Y.)

Nasty Negligee - I Cry (K.Y.) from Level 3 (2012)

Despite closing for a very mixed bag of local acts and a touring band as eardrum shattering as Host, Sterling Black and the rest of the gang put on a fine performance yesterday for their Sunday matinee punk show in Portland.

Too bad everyone left to go to work or to church or wherever/whatever people do after 6 o'clock on Sundays...


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Song of the Day - Where Lies My Tarp?

The Microphones - Where Lies My Tarp? from The Glow Pt. 2 (2001)

A perfect Microphones/Mount Eerie kind of day/night.

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Song of the Day - Prayers

Pill Friends - Prayers from 420 Love Songs (second 40) (2013)

This little number comes from a compilation of love songs mostly by the people associated with Teen Suicide, Julia Brown, Infinity Crush, and Ricky Eat Acid. It's actually the second compilation of 40 songs compiled for this project so far and there's a lot more to come.

You can check out all the tracks and a little write up about them on the 420 Love Songs tumblr.


The tagline to this project is: "it's like Magnetic Fields but not as good".

I'd say it's just a lot more lo-fi.

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Song of the Day - Night School At the Knight School

Thee More Shallows - Night School At the Knight School from Book of Bad Breaks (2007)

Found this way cool song thanks to Yoni Wolf of Why?'s Yo La Hannukah mixtape. Be sure to check that out as well, here!

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Song of the Day - Ocean, Quick!

Real Kind - Ocean, Quick! from Hard Red Winter (sketch) (2012)



Real Kind is the humble moniker of Marissa Owens from my favorite place, Portland, Maine.

A more fancy and full version of Hard Red Winter will be available in April.

I think this version sounds great as it is, though. Just sayin'...

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