Beatnik Turtle's Song of the Day

"Can I interest you in a sandwich?" Jason's grandmother once answered this question by saying "I'm sick of sandwiches." When asked about her answer, she said "when you get to be 80 years old, you'll be sick of sandwiches, too."

This song is the lunch break song from our forthcoming album, ALL IN A DAY'S WORK. (The pre-release of the album is already available at the iTunes, but the CD's not due until October...probably because the CD duplicators are arguing over what to have for lunch).

Since it sure seems like we really do need some interns here at The Song Of The Day Dot Com, we wrote and recorded this in February as part of our Record Production Month album, "All In A Day's Work." It's also a track on the 10th Annual International Pop Overthrow album from NotLame Records.

The pre-release of this album, entitled "All In A Day's Work", is currently available at iTunes.

When you hear the dreaded "let's just be friends," just go ahead and say "goodbye."

In the fast paced world of mergers and acquisitions, it's best to just go with the flow...

This song is from our forthcoming album, ALL IN A DAY'S WORK. (The pre-release of the album is already available at iTunes, and the CD's will be available in September.

Things have been pretty busy at Beatnik Turtle headquarters the last few weeks getting ready for the release of The Indie Band Survival Guide written by our very own Jason and Randy! We have new Beatnik Turtle songs in the pipeline, but in order to get everything ready for the book's release we decided to present encores of some of the best of last year's songs.

Check out the video for today's song. It's safe for work - no "pron"!

Things have been pretty busy at Beatnik Turtle headquarters the last few weeks getting ready for the release of The Indie Band Survival Guide written by our very own Jason and Randy! We have new Beatnik Turtle songs in the pipeline, but in order to get everything ready for the book's release we decided to present encores of some of the best of last year's songs.

This song, of course, refers to February 29th, or Leap Day. It also refers to heartbreak and loss, but that's not nearly as important as Leap Day. The observant listener will notice that 2007 is not a leap year, and while we considered delaying entire The Song of the Day project until 2008 so this song could fall on 2-29, we just decided to release it on February 28.

We are aware that the existence of an intercalary day in a leap year originated under the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy III in 239 B.C. and it was Aloysius Lilius who proposed the Gregorian calendar in the 1500s - not Gregory. We just found "Gregory" much more singable.

Things have been pretty busy at Beatnik Turtle headquarters the last few weeks getting ready for the release of The Indie Band Survival Guide written by our very own Jason and Randy! We have new Beatnik Turtle songs in the pipeline, but in order to get everything ready for the book's release we decided to present encores of some of the best of last year's songs.

Last year, we recently created this theme for Mur Lafferty's fantastic audio novel podcast, Playing For Keeps. You can hear it at the Playing For Keeps website!

Playing For Keeps is now a printed book from Swarm Press! It releases this week and is available at Amazon!

Things have been pretty busy at Beatnik Turtle headquarters the last few weeks getting ready for the release of The Indie Band Survival Guide written by our very own Jason and Randy! We have new Beatnik Turtle songs in the pipeline, but in order to get everything ready for the book's release we decided to present encores of some of the best of last year's songs.

A year ago at this time, Randy, Jason, Ryan, and Tom were at a podcaster party at Dragon*Con. On the balcony, we met Chris Miller (whose podcast can be found here) what he does for a living and the reply was "I turn caffeine into code." Luckily, guitars were close at hand and this song was off to a fast start!

A blast from Beatnik Turtle's archives. This song features the most sensitive of saxophones: the soprano "Kenny G" sax.

In June, Ted Blegen's film company Bromine produced a film for the 48 Hour Film Project called "Passed Over." We were asked to do the theme music which we present as this week's song.

Ted's film, Passed Over, was about a fateful collision of the Gregorian and Judaic calendars where Easter and Passover land on the same day. His film chronicles the unfortunate fate of a holiday meal between two families united by an interfaith marriage.