Word: songfulness
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...Symptoms: When you write your 200th song release, you recognize something familiar in it, and in fact, you realize it is your 1989 song re-rendered to different lyrics...
...Believe in Anything” by Wolf Parade. Seems like the only song I’ve listened to for most of this semester...
...Soul’s classic “Eye Know.” Smokey Robinson? Nope, that’s actually bleached-white classic rock group Steely Dan (the track is “Peg”), who are also namechecked on Chicago rapper Common’s song “I Am Music...
...only do old-school duo and fellow TV fans 3rd Bass sample dialogue from comedian Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd’s Saturday Night Live routine “Wild And Crazy Guys” on their song “Brooklyn-Queens,” but their peers in EPMD have a whole song called “The Steve Martin,” all about his funky dance in “The Jerk.” Talk about an unlikely hip-hop icon...
...frontman Joey Burns’ appropriately denim-and-flannel attire. The band is much more than their Southwestern background, however. Their varied set, nearly mostly drawn from their forthcoming album, ranged from latin-tinged country to dissonant indie rock, but consistently connected with an audience that treated even new songs like old favorites.Calexico’s multiplicity of styles slowly built on one another over the course of the set. The moody but irresistibly melodic pop of “Cruel” blended into the gradually-building rocker “Jesus and Tequila,” which...