Let’s get one thing out of the way: if you love music, and you’re online almost the whole day, you had better check out Daytrotter. Here’s their “mission-vision” statement, which shows their integrity and passion for music.
What Daytrotter is attempting to do is to not kid around with you and tell you that we found something that you never knew existed. We are going to contribute to the musical landscape, not just toss it around like a used book or a stolen pick-up line. We’re going to give you something that you truly have never heard. We are not giving you songs from someone you love’s record album, thereby stealing from someone you love. We’re giving you exclusive, re-worked, alternate versions of old songs and unreleased tracks by some of your favorite bands and by a lot of your next favorite bands.
One of the things I don’t enjoy about the indie music scene is how people always say “I knew __ before they were famous.” Like, so if you discovered a band when they got famous means what? That you absolutely have no taste? Pure BS, right? I love that Daytrotter sees through that.
After that long-winded declaration of love for Daytrotter, I give you my favorite songs from the Daytrotter sessions.
1. ”Cubism Dream” / “Airplanes” by Local Natives (two different sessions)
2. ”Heart It Races” by Architecture in Helsinki
3. ”Everlyn”/”House Fire” by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
4. ”All the Pretty Girls” by Fun
5. ”Five Years’ Time” by Noah and the Whale
6. ”My Baby Shoots Her Mouth Off” by Margot and the Nuclear So and so’s
7. ”Oranges and Apples” by Trashcan Sinatras
8. ”Guns of Navarone” by Maritime
9. ”Lake Michigan” by Rogue Wave
10. ”The Con” by Tegan and Sara
11. ”Reasons to Love You” by Meiko
12. ”No One’s Better Sake” by Little Joy
13. ”Developing Active People” by Via Audio
14. ”Secrets” by Headlights
15. ”Generator First Floor” by Freelance Whales
16. ”Love Is Colder than Death” by The Virgins
