Heavy Rotation: The Sharp Ease, Susan Christie, the Boggs and More!

It's Valentine's Day and as our present to you, we've got a new toy to play with! We have a little music player now -- check it on our homepage up there on the top right, ready and waiting to play you some of our most recent, most beloved (and distinctly non-Valentine-y) songs. It's kind of like our version of a pop-up store -- we'll keep the songs up for a little bit and then take them down for new ones, so listen up while they're hot. We get no kickbacks or anything like that for this; it's all about our pure love of the music. This week:

The Sharp Ease, "Desert Song"
Why oh why did my maybe-favorite L.A. band have to break up? I got this song the other day at Gimme Tinnitus and it's so easing my ache for more of The Sharp Ease's gorgeously clattering high-drama pop. (Liz)

Susan Christie, "For the Love of a Soldier"
Perhaps the most romantic anti-war tune ever written? This genre-defying song is a passionate and excited hybrid of gospel, folk, and sunshine pop. Good choice if you're making someone a mixtape to fall in love with you by. (Laura)

Company B, "Fascinated"
Why complicate things? One of the best songs to come out of the 1980s Miami freestyle movement, and a dance floor classic. Strap on your roller skates and go. (Kat)

The Boggs, "Forts"
All I really need in life is a bit of twang and some swagger. This song is like the best men's vintage suit: sharp, stylish, authentic and a bit lived-in. Also completely and totally fun!(Kat)

Tin Tin, "Talking Turkey"
This post-psych pre-glam gem shimmers, spangles, and straight-up rocks, all the while shouting out submarine travel, the KGB, the Trans-Siberian Railway, ecclesiology and so much more! (Laura)

The Mo-dettes, "Paint It Black"
A few weeks ago at some coolie-cool French restaurant in Hollywood I heard an en francais cover of "Paint it Black" and figured that had to be the slickest "Paint it Black" cover imaginable. But I was wrong: This one's 99 times hotter. (Liz)

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