Today's Top Tune

Today's Top Tune

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Today's Top Tune episodes

  • Mazzy Star: Quiet, The Winter Harbor
    Mazzy Star have issued less than a handful of records since Hope Sandoval and David Roback began their musical journey in the early 90's. A newly minted EP - consisting of a new version of 1993's "So Tonight That I Might See," alongside a previously...
    5 min
  • Libella (Carmen Rizzo & Joel Shearer): Los Angeles
    LA-based producers and musicians Carmen Rizzo and Joel Shearer debut their new collaboration, Libella. Recorded all over the globe, their lush, ambient tracks carry the names of some of the cities they recorded in, including one for our fair city...
    5 min
  • Cornelia Murr: Man On My Mind
    The bucolic setting of the Hudson Valley in upper New York State is spiritually perfect for Cornelia Murr's debut recording produced by My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James. Murr has always kept her songs close, protecting them even from roommates...
    4 min
  • Yo La Tengo: Shades of Blue
    For their 15th album, Yo La Tengo took to their rehearsal studio without an engineer. Despite the location, no rehearsal was done. They instead decided to turn on the tape and let the songs come together on their own in slow motion. We feel that...
    3 min
  • Flasher: Pressure
    Bass-guitar-drum trio Flasher are part of a politically-charged underground scene in our country's capitol, Washington D.C. As they put the final touches on their debut album dropping in June they deliver "Pressure," a post-punk anthem raging...
    4 min
  • Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite: Found The One
    Multiplatinum selling artists Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite picked up the "Best Blues Album" Grammy-Award for their 2013 debut. A new recording has just landed that recounts their personal stories and adds to the sonic blues lexicon. "Found The...
    3 min
  • Cut Worms: Cash For Gold
    Recalling the early work of The Beatles amongst other British Invasion alums, mid-western born and New York-based Max Clarke aka Cut Worms sounds like a lost treasure from the 60's. Clarke handled most of the instrumentation on his debut LP. This...
    4 min
  • Coby​ Brown: Cannonball
    LA-based Coby Brown talks about his new song "Cannonball" by saying:  “The idea for the music came out of a different project I was working on. There was a scrap of a marimba line that I couldn't get out of my head, so I kept it and developed...
    4 min
  • Michael Nau & The Mighty Thread: Less Than Positive
    Loose and freewheeling artist Michael Nau (and his band The Mighty Thread) has finally taped a live show favorite "Less Than Positive." Recorded on the final day of sessions, this existential love song came together without overdubs, much like the...
    5 min
  • Hatchie: Sleep
    Austrialian singer and bassist Harriette Pilbeam aka Hatchie gravitates towards celestial dream pop. How does she conjure her brand of pop? Pilbeam says  “All of my songs usually start with a couple of lines that are very true, things that I...
    4 min

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