Beautiful Song Of The Week

May 8

Week 365: “Minutes, Seconds, Hours” by David John Sheppard

Whenever I’m walking and I cross a set of railroad tracks, I get an incredible…

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May 1

Week 364: “Fernweh” by The Ideal Setback

Here are ten things I know about setbacks: Setbacks are inevitable. Setbacks can hurt. Setbacks…

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April 24

Week 363: “Growing Up” by Ben Sollee

What did you do between the ages of 14 and 16? Start a band? Forge…

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April 17

Week 362: “Prelude No. 3, Op. 17” by Alexander Scriabin

I think one of the big mistakes we often make when setting goals or making…

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April 10

Week 361: “Avril 14” by Aphex Twin

For a long while, I wondered why Richard James, aka Aphex Twin, named this song…

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April 3

Week 360: “Seventeen” by Cody Crump

Have you ever wondered how many songs there are that reference a specific age? Or…

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March 27

Week 359: “Apollo-Soyuz” by moon:and:6

I’ve been thinking a lot about co-operation recently. On the micro level, there are a…

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March 20

Week 358: “Postpartum” by Taylor McFerrin

Most of the official, record-label-written biographies of Taylor McFerrin don’t mention that he is the…

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March 13

Week 357: “Chelsea Bridge” by Tommy Flanagan

This song, written by Billy Strayhorn, was supposedly inspired by a painting Strayhorn saw while…

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March 6

Week 356: “Motion Capture” by Snow Palms

Discovering a new band, and discovering that you like virtually everything they’ve done, is an…

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February 27

Week 355: “Envy Green” by The Arcadian Wild

If you’re familiar with the seven ‘deadly sins’, you might know that each sin has…

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February 20

Week 354: “Night Flight” by The Bowling Alley Sound

I was never a big fan of ten-pin bowling. The ball was unmanageably large, and…

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February 13

Week 353: “Pur Ti Miro” by Claudio Monteverdi

The problem with love songs is that they’re often one-sided. We only get half the…

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February 6

Week 352: “Pink Rabbits” by The National

I grew up in the kind of household where bedtime was non-negotiable. When it was…

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January 30

Week 351: “Stardust” by Nat King Cole

Here’s a strange question to kick off your week: will we ever run out of…

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January 23

Week 350: “Porcelain” by The Lunar Year

This week marks the end of the lunar year. So let’s take a moment to…

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January 16

Week 349: “Surprises” by Ibrahim Maalouf

There are not many cities in the world with an archaeological history as rich as…

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January 9

Week 348: “Lucid Anne” by Self

For a teenager in the early post-Nirvana days searching for the next life-changing band, the…

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January 2

Week 347: “Hummingbird” by The Watanabes

If you’re a western-hemisphere white person, there’s a good chance that you know someone who…

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December 26

Week 346: “Funeral” by Sonya Kitchell

Ladies and gentlemen, we gather this week to mourn the passing of 2016. Or, for…

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