Rolling Stone Song Of The Day

Mary Mary - "The Sound"

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:40:23 -0800

A crossover gospel duo get down to the real nitty gritty on the Cadillac Records soundtrack, channeling the early ‘60s teen r&b of gals like Shirley Ellis and Dee Dee Sharp. When you’re praying, they argue, energy matters more than words. ...

Song of the Day: Kinky's "

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:47:02 -0800

Staking out middle ground between Devo’s “Girl U Want” and the Beasties’ “Girls,” Monterrey nuevo wavos do the funky robot. ...

Song of the Day: Curumin - "Magrela Fever"

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:29:52 -0800

A Japan-obsessed eclectic from São Paulo pays tribute to his bicycle, with a wordy but sunbaked samba that starts with the Police’s “Walking On The Moon” bassline and briefly turns into spaghetti-western surf-rock halfway through. ...

Song of the Day: F*cked Up - "Crooked Head"

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:58:44 -0800

In the most graspable moment on these supposedly subversive Toronto punks’ new album, a discernible drumbeat gives way to washes of undistorted guitar ooze as a wrestler Elmer Fudd barks out his zen rant. For six minutes, a new day’s rising.

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:00:57 -0800

From uncleancut Georgians crossing over from Bonnaroo to country radio, a talking-blues barn dance in the Charlie Daniels tradition. The bemused fast-talker is confronted with pan-handler he wants to punch, but he stays polite. ...

Song of the Day: Morel - "The Death of the Paperboy"

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:48:19 -0800

Singer-songwriter techno-pop, justifying its depressive mood with
journalistic detail: “My only connection is knowing the friend of the man
who swerved just to run the boy over, I hope he was sober. ...

Song of the Day: Blake Shelton - "Green"

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:20:44 -0800

In probably the catchiest song ever to mention carbon emissions, everybody
decides to go back to the land, but Miranda Lambert’s boyfriend doesn’t have
to, because he’s already there – playing his guitar unplugged and tending
his garden and drying his clothes on the line.

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:59:07 -0800

From a German producer based in Chile, a Latin-kitsch version of ‘80s Swiss proto-techno duo Yello’s version of Latin music, seemingly learned from
American movies. Vibes and marimbas play the parts where synthesizers
imitated pinball plinks. Subject: Mexico City’s bally-table king.

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:58:58 -0800

The year’s darkest musical history lesson, sung through the bitter wind in a heavy-hearted baritone, from the point of view of war casualties from 1864,
1944, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Moral: Don’t cut and run. ...

Song of the Day: Nickelback - "Burn It To the Ground"

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:17:53 -0800

Frat-boys turning into drunks at last round, no class and no principles like Alice Cooper, stomping hands and clapping feet and yelling out dumb rhymes
to the same disco-metal groove that Blondie's "Call Me' took from Black