Song of the Day

HALEY BONAR
Raggedy Man

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A lotta you know that I just love Haley Bonar and not just because we were both born in Brandon, Manitoba! The Minneapolis-based singer/songwriter with that honey-dipped sweet/sad voice has twice before graced the pages of the Song of the Day, but the news that she had self-released her new album, Golder, back in April, somehow evaded my radar. She funded the new record through a successful Kickstarter campaign and after hitting ‘repeat’ on the album all day, I can say the new stuff is jauntier, tighter, wonderfully melodic and a bit more upbeat than her earlier work. You can stream Golder on her website, and then pick up the album for only ten bucks over at BandCamp.

*UPDATE* I just found out Ms. Bonar will be playing The Bell House next Tuesday, June 21st….get your tickets in advance HERE, and then at The Mercury Lounge on Thursday. I gotta make room for this…

Songs of the Day Revisited

Damn Ugly Photography has been around for just over two years now, but the main reason it exists at all…the Song of the Day List…started way back in 2004 as a way for me to waste some time by emailing out whatever new music I happened to find to a small list of my friends. That small list grew over time until I hit over 1,000 people and my ISP’s spam filter kicked in, making it no longer possible for me to send the mass email out to the blind list. So in February of 2009 I got this place going and decided to include more and more photo-related posts. I mean, I did call it Damn Ugly Photography, right?!!

Anyway…I was reminded of the early days of The List when I drove into the city yesterday while listening to a playlist of some of my favorite pre-blog stuff from obscure Indie bands that I was typically hearing for the first time. These are songs that I still count among the favorite music I have sitting in my iTunes folder. And as some of you probably know, over the years I’ve actually gotten pretty close with a number of the artists and record labels and we’re lucky enough to have new music fall off the back of the truck well in advance of the actual release dates. Jets Overhead, Say Hi, Kate Tucker, Audrye Sessions, Johanna & the Dusty Floor, School of Seven Bells, Nadia Ackerman and many, many more have all sent leaks from the studio for us to enjoy, and just today, Ryan Karazija sent me some new cuts from his latest project, Tabula Rasa, that I’ll be getting some of it up very soon.

So today I’m gonna give y’all a nostalgic look back of some of that music…without my usual flowery comments…as a little history lesson on how far The List has come. Trust me, this will make one Hell of a great Indie playlist!

SATURNA
Pop Rocks

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THE RAVEONETTES
Love In A Trashcan

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SILVERSUN PICKUPS
Lazy Eye

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DIRECTOR
Reconnect

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BLONDE REDHEAD
Spring And By Summer Fall

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THE HIGH VIOLETS
44 Down

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CANDIE PAYNE
By Tomorrow

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HALEY BONAR
Big Star

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OVER THE RHINE
Trouble

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EARLIMART
Happy Alone

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RINOCEROSE
Cubicle

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BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
Weapon Of Choice

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ESKIMO JOE
Black Fingernails, Red Wine

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SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
Connjur

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VANILLA SWINGERS
I’ll Stay Next To You

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JETS OVERHEAD
Shadow Knows

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