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Category Archives: Check Out This Song
Ball of Wax 61 Songs: Icarus Phoenix – “The Future, for Emma”
This jauntily milquetoast ditty is depressingly upbeat. It manages to be dreamy and ethereal while also being earnest and grounded. The song’s playful melody twinkles on top of sweetly morose prose. This song is authentically twee. I listen to this … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 61 Songs: Emiko Blalock – “10 Years”
This is four minutes and 31 seconds of earnest, heartfelt emotion. Strong, melodic vocals are set in front of a simple, sweet, cyclical guitar melody. The vocals chronicle the moments of a love long lost but not forgotten. The simple … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 61 Songs: Tekla Waterfield – “I Wanna Love You Forever”
A great love song will always find itself in the position of conversing with all the other great love songs of the past, quietly announcing itself to be a continuation of the elusive, sometimes fleeting and always mysterious emotion that … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 61 Songs: Kevin Suggs – “The Cuts”
Did you ever wonder what the world would be like today if ’50s sock hop music had been as interested in environmental stewardship as it was in where, oh where, could one’s baby be? Okay, neither had I until listening … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 61 Songs: Nick Droz – “There Goes the Neighborhood”
No, this song is NOT a cover of the 1992 Body Count* classic but a song written (per Nick) as “part of a prompt-based project . . . for one of the Hugo House’s literary series. Inspired by the construction … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 61 Songs: Red Weather Tigers – “Hello, Discordia”
Ball of Wax supergroup Red Weather Tigers is back! Again! Proving their one-minute appearance on Ball of Wax 60 was no fluke, this band of miscreants – Marc Manning, Grumpy Bear, and THEATH – has delivered a fine homage to … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 61 Songs: Holly Small – “I Don’t KNOW!”
Have you met Holly Small? She sang lead in Wearbearcat! and was a prominent member of the Talking Heads cover band This Is Not My Beautiful Band. These days, Holly’s focus is on her original electro-pop music and electronic jazz … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 61 Songs: Simon Henneman and Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy Duo – “Pysht”
Ready? Set? Go. Go. Go! “Pysht,” by the Simon Henneman and Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy Duo, is a frantic guitar and drum dash across a million guitar notes and at least as many rasps of percussion. The track begins in the realm … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 61 Songs: electric bird noise – “hearn-roberts live . . .”
This track – whose full title, “hearn-roberts live at the spiritual center for the creative and sonically inspired 7-27-19 (song 4),” sums up its personnel and origins – is yet another piece of delightful, guitar-forward experimentation from our friends in … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 61: Sceneries, Placements – “Guidance and Navigation”
Our new Arizonan friends Sceneries, Placements – whose membership overlaps to some extent with Vir(us), whom you heard on Volume 60 – have graciously shared with us the title track from their majestic space-travel-themed (I think?) album Guidance and Navigation. … Continue reading