🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Salesmen, Cheats and Liars by Lowest of the Low from Shakespeare My Butt…. Great Canadian indie rock
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🎶🚴 Cheap Beer by FIDLAR got me through a tough interval on the bike this morning
🎵 Match Head Girl by Iceage is some good pick-me-up punk rock. The whole album keeps up the energy
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — The Night Starts Here by Stars from In Our Bedroom After the War. The two singers work well together
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Lovers In A Dangerous Time by Bruce Cockburn from Stealing Fire (Deluxe Edition). “Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight” is a great line
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Feather, Fur & Fin by Danny Michel from Feather, Fur & Fin. A conservation biologist’s theme song with a fun horn section
🎶 After hearing my son and nephew rehearsing Is What It Is by Chance Peña, I’ve been a bit obsessed with it. They were practicing for an upcoming campfire concert at their summer camp, where there was recently a tragedy. Watching the campers comfort each other through the tragedy seemed resonant with the song’s lyrics
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Midnight Rider by The Allman Brothers Band from Idlewild South (Deluxe Edition). An easy-going song about freedom and resilience
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Angeles by Elliott Smith from Either/Or. Although Waltz, No. 2 (XO) is a slightly better song, I think Angeles is a better first listen song.
RBC Amphitheatre. 📍
🎶 Bleachers know how to put on a great show
Fun to listen to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco from start to finish for The Hemispheric Cavalcade Bingo Arcade June-boree! 🎵
Listening to The Call by Broken Social Scene from Remember The Humans. Great to have a new album from this collective 🎵
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Right Back to It (feat. MJ Lenderman) by Waxahatchee from Tigers Blood. I think this is Waxahatchee’s best song.
Nine Inch Noize is a great mix of nostalgia and novelty 🎵
🎵 Hooray, new music from both Wintersleep and The New Pornographers is out this week
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip from Fully Completely. A Canadian classic!
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths. A classic alternative song that still sounds great to me.
Go by The Chemical Brothers showed up just in time to get me through today’s tough ride 🚴🎵
Default app updates for 2026 Q1
I’m updating some app defaults to explore indie alternatives, enhance content discovery, and reduce reliance on Apple services.
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Don’t Swallow the Cap by The National from Trouble Will Find Me. Likely my favourite song from them.
Losing Everything (feat. Anaïs Mitchell) by Donovan Woods from Squander Your Gifts is a highlight of a great new EP 🎵
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter: With or Without You by U2 from The Joshua Tree. Kind of ridiculous to pick a single U2 song, but I chose this one.
🚴 Worldwide by Snõõper got me through some tough intervals on today’s ride 🎵
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter: Possession by Sarah McLachlan from Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Boilermaker by Royal Blood from Typhoons helped me finish off a too early Zwift ride 🎵
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter: Weighty Ghost by Wintersleep from Welcome to the Night Sky. We listened to this one a lot when she was little.
When Our Friends Come Over by Donovan Woods & Madi Diaz from Things Were Never Good If They’re Not Good Now is a great song on a great album 🎵
🎶 Song of the week for my daughter: Cloudbusting by Kate Bush. She knows Running Up That Hill from Stranger Things and this exposes her to more from a visionary artist.
🎶 Having claimed recently that my kids have good musical tastes, I was chagrined when my daughter mixed up Peter Gabriel and Pearl Jam. Parenting fail!
As my penance, I’m now sending her a weekly song to make sure that her musical foundation is sound. These won’t necessarily be the best, most popular, or my favourite songs (though sometimes they will be all three). Rather, they will be influential to my musical tastes and worth her consideration.
Given how this started, the first song is Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel. There are plenty of his songs to choose from. I think this one is a great place to start.
🎶 A mention in a Pitchfork review reminded me that Spiritchaser by Dead Can Dance is great. I hadn’t listened to it in at least twenty years.
