Wednesday, November 20, 2024

FM dial scan highlights CCLX

Some of the better tunes I've heard today:

KDHX 88.1 FM

  • Someone Disappeared-The Everywheres (With it's lo-fi guitar and vocals, this 2013 track could pass for a mid to late '60s garage rock tune.)

WSIE 88.7 FM

  • Sunlight Bossa Nova-Lawson Rollins (An aptly titled guitar number.  This is driving-with-the-top-down accompaniment.)
  • Wet Bar-Lisa Addeo (A pleasant new piano melody with a bounce.  Freddie Ravel's "Sunny Side Up" would flow smoothly into it.)

KCLC 89.1 FM

  • Water Underground-Real Estate (This band has a way with guitar and vocal hooks.  Exhibit A: "Crime."  Exhibit B: "Darling."  Exhibit C: This tune, released in February.)

WFUN 96.3 FM

  • Rock Steady-The Whispers (During the Summer of '87, this hit got constant radio airplay.  Hearing it again decades later, its beat and chorus are firmly of their time but hold up well.)

KEZK 102.5 FM

  • Winter Wonderland-Amy Grant (Grant's vocals consistently capture the wonder and lightheartedness of the season, so it's heartwarming to hear them in KEZK's all Christmas rotation, which started Friday morning.)
  • Silent Night-Nat King Cole (Not many vocalists can command this level of gravitas with this carol.)