alternative music
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Sunday Morning – The Velvet Undeground One of the most well-known, if not the most, Velvet Underground songs, “Sunday Morning” is a sickly sweet, introspective look at life. The song was written with Nico‘s voice in mind, but Lou decided to sing it himself. Nico does take back up vocals though! I’ve seen quite a Read more
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In The Room Where You Sleep – Dead Man’s Bones Happy Halloween! Long before he was “just Ken“, Ryan Gosling actually dropped a pretty fun rock album with collaborator Zach Shields under the name “Dead Man’s Bones” in 2009. I’ve always liked Gosling as an actor, I consider A Place Beyond The Pines as one Read more
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Miss You – Alabama Shakes Alabama Shakes are/were one of the best groups to come out of the South, ever, regardless of their current lack of catalog. Southern rock n soul will forever have my heart. I remember the first time hearing Brittany Howard‘s voice; I believe it was a performance of their song “Hold Read more
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BULLDOG – Laundry Day I was introduced to Laundry Day in college through the busted and blown-out speakers of a ’94 Geo Prism by one of my best friends before we really became close. Looking back, it may have actually been the first time we drove somewhere together outside of work. I do remember asking Read more
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Sweater Weather – The Neighbourhood Happy Friday! I’ve gotta admit, I was pretty late to the game on “Sweater Weather.” This is a song that I had been aware of for a really long time. I remember hearing it all the time playing in various cars throughout high school and college, but I never really Read more
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