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Recent Song Of The Day

Trailer Trash Tracys.

June 14, 2012 Cool but still beautiful, "Candy Girl" is touching, revealing and almost painfully intimate.

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Elephant Micah.

June 13, 2012 Ambiguous words, delivered with earnest passion, lend special power to "Airline Living."

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The dB's.

June 12, 2012 In "That Time Is Gone," the dB's singer needlessly questions the wisdom of his own band's comeback.

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Waxahatchee.

June 11, 2012 "Be Good" chronicles a close platonic friendship, made more delicate by the risk of romance.

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Squarepusher.

June 8, 2012 "Dark Steering" is a fitting soundtrack for life-or-death motorcycle races through neon-lit streets.

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Tim Fite (left).

June 7, 2012 In "We Are All Teenagers," Fite nails the adolescent unease that lingers into adulthood.

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MC Ride of Death Grips.

June 6, 2012 "I've Seen Footage" catalogs the paranoia and police brutality that drove Death Grips to insanity.

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Zammuto.

June 5, 2012 In "Idiom Wind," the former Books member tells the story of a man who needs to get his hands dirty.

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The Honeydogs.

June 4, 2012 The hook in "Broke It, Buy It" is insidiously catchy enough to ricochet through your head for days.

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Andrew Cyrille and Haitian Fascination.

June 1, 2012 In "Marinèt," Cyrille and Frisner Augustin collaborate on a breezy but intense Haitian folk tune.

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The British beat-makers shed their electronics in pursuit of a sound designed to translate live.

First Listen: Mount Kimbie, 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth'

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