The Best Song You’ve Never Heard: “Run Or Hide” By Run River North
Photo: Serro Park
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, an opportunity to reflect on how Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have made a huge impact on our culture. Asian Americans have influenced the music industry as solo artists like Japanese Breakfast, lead singers like Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and band members like Joe Kwon of The Avett Brothers.
Today’s Best Song You’ve Never Heard features Run River North, a Los Angeles band whose members are Korean American. They formed while attending California State University Northridge, originally named Monsters Calling Home before changing their name and recording a viral music video from their Hondas. The video led Honda to surprise the band with a
The Best Song You’ve Never Heard: “Feel It All” By KT Tunstall
Perception is a difficult aspect of being a successful recording musician. As an artist continues their career, the songs they release as a single can have a similar feel or sound. Sometimes artists try very hard to overcome that perception. Taylor Swift has made a career of shifting her sound from country to pop to last year’s folk-leaning albums,
Folklore and
Evermore. Others struggle to break out of the perception that they record one type of song.
Eye to the Telescope. The song was simple but full of energy, with stomps, acoustic guitar, and looping “ooh ooh” vocals. She followed up her debut single with “Suddenly I See,” a more produced sounding song with a similar energy. Her next album,
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The Best Song You’ve Never Heard: “Hayloft” By Mother Mother
Photo: James Omara
Canada has produced several influential artists who have found success here in the United States. Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Alanis Morissette, Arcade Fire, and many more have brought their talents south, however that border keeps some artists from making an impact here. As I started building a list of songs to feature for The Best Song You’ve Never Heard, Canadian artists who are stars in their home country but only somewhat known in the US kept coming up.
Mother Mother is one of those bands that is massive up north. Since their first album,
The Best Song You’ve Never Heard: “These Words” by The Lemon Twigs
Keeping timeless music alive is one of our missions at KXT. New music is core to who we are as well, but some sounds deserve to be remembered forever. For today’s The Best Song You’ve Never Heard, we have a little of both in one song.
Brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario grew up on Long Island with a musical theater background. Both performed on Broadway and Michael even had a few TV appearances. That experience bled into their music tastes outside of the theater as they were attracted to a lot of the theatrical rock artists of the 1970s like Todd Rundgren, Elton John, and others.