If It's Too Loud...

Photo by Carol Fonde I'm not usually one for empowering songs, but these days I'll take any positivity I can get, especially when it comes in a song this great. Today sees the release of "Tell Your Friends" from Boston's Emily Grogan. The track is an epic pop rock track that gets more inventive than the genre typically gets. It has enough tempo and stylistic changes, and cycles through these throughout the song. The song ends up being a wildly powerful track that will give even the post pessimistic of us (i.e.: me) some hope for the future. "Tell Your Friends" starts off good, and only gets better and better as it becomes one of the best songs of the year. Emily Grogan says of her latest single: “‘Tell Your Friends’ came from feeling overwhelmed by the amount of chaos, division, and fear happening around us. I found myself pulling more inward this year, and in those moments when I step back into the world, I see the external chaos from a different perspe...

Late show live performances are obviously a challenge these days. Most talk show hosts are hosting solo from home with guests on video conference, so it's pretty impossible to actually do any live performance. Wilco were on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert  this week with their new single, "Tell Your Friends." Instead of a live performance, the band is shown in home recordings lip synching with their families. Not super cool, but check out the Mass MoCA shirts! "Tell Your Friends" is a laid back, chilled out dreamy folky kind of song that includes a killer lazy electric guitar solo. So... a pretty standard Wilco song these days. The lyrics are a little hokey ("Don't forget to tell your friends / When you see them again / O' I love you"), but we can all use some hokey positivity  these days. "Tell Your Friends" may not go down as one of the greatest Wilco songs of all time, but it's the Wilco song we need right now. You can w...