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Oh Vermont, how pretty you are!
October 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The one, the only, Jonathan Richman at the Somerville Theatre. I think he got at least four standing ovations, he's a treasure.
October 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
What's it like inside your head?
October 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We don't deserve Octobers
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Delighted to see this but also a little awwwww for Pulp and for Fontaines, who I thought for sure had it on lock.
Sam Fender Wins 2025 Mercury Prize for People Watching
The North Shields singer-songwriter beat out FKA twigs, PinkPantheress, Fontaines D.C., Pulp, and more
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October 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I do love to be beside the seaside
October 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What's prettier than Boston in October?
October 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#MusicChallenge
#top20latenightsongs

The final selection, the very end of the night bleeding into tomorrow. We're fading fast and it's nearly dawn.

Party people, night owls, yearnification and recriminations.

If we get through this alive, I'll meet you next week, same place, same time.
Bar Italia
YouTube video by Pulp - Topic
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September 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#top20latenightsongs

Final two selections! I've loved finding songs with a vibe of loneliness, yearning, broadcasting, airwaves, connection. So lush, dreamy, evocative. My favorite new song of the entire year.

I'll be broadcasting all night
Hope my signal is loud and clear
Lord Huron - Is There Anybody Out There (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Lord Huron
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September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
#MusicChallenge
#top20latenightsongs

Selection number 18. Another one for staring at the ceiling and wondering why you're not with the person you want to be with. This version is sublime, especially because it's not with that other guy, and Johnny Marr's guitar does the crying for you.
Johnny Marr Plays Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
YouTube video by smithsonguitar
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September 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
#MusicChallenge
#top20latenightsongs

Not sure what it says about me that I can come up with so many songs I adore about late night party despair, but here is the most gorgeous example.

And an incredible cinematic needle drop moment in All of Us Strangers.
Blur - Death Of A Party (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Blur
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September 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Jadu Heart at Brighton Music Hall. Saw them opening for Fontaines DC this spring, happy to see them headlining in Boston.
September 27, 2025 at 2:22 AM
#MusicChallenge
#top20latenightsongs

Selection number 16. The obvious 3am choice. Just put the phone down and don't call, babe. It's got a great beat and you can dance to it.

youtu.be/6366dxFf-Os
Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High? (Official Video)
YouTube video by ArcticMonkeysVEVO
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September 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#MusicChallenge
#top20latenightsongs

As gorgeous and bleak and spare as Billie Eilish's original, but with Lewis Capaldi's breath-catching plaintive voice. This one is a masterclass in yearnification, listen to it and cry your eyes out.

youtu.be/ubYS1hvaY0k
Lewis Capaldi - when the party’s over (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by LewisCapaldiVEVO
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September 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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#top20latenightsongs

Late night makeout music yearning sexy dreamy sublime

Over and over they'll see
How your lips and my mouth should be
Dancing 'til we both fall backwards
Time and time again

youtu.be/sZmBhcRegzM
Airiel - Your Lips, My Mouth | Audiotree Live
YouTube video by Audiotree
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September 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#top20latenightsongs

Selection number 13, my own personal club kid anthem. When you don't know the party is just beginning or winding down.

I am, of course, the most blonde you've ever met.

youtu.be/XiMrrleH_hI
Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx)
YouTube video by Underworld
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September 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
#MusicChallenge
#top20LateNightSongs

This is the one for the morning after the night before. Has there ever been such a voice?

youtu.be/JJ3B9wy4Xws
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (2011)
YouTube video by Amy Winehouse - Topic
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September 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Of course if you could decide last minute to buy a ticket for Philadelphia and hop on a Greyhound on two hours sleep, you would. Of COURSE you would.
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
#MusicChallenge
#top20LateNightSongs

It's not all midnight romance and yearnification, sometimes it's staring at the ceiling and trying to figure out how you possibly fucked yourself over so hard. This is the one to remind you that you fucked it indeed, baby.

youtu.be/qkNa5xzOe5U
Beck - Lost Cause
YouTube video by BeckVEVO
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September 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
September 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM
#MusicChallenge
#top20LateNightSongs

This album came out when I was only 12 but I was crazy about it, a little pre-teen romantic already. A beautiful one to revisit, late night hope, yearnification, and Chris Cornell's once-in-a-generation voice.

youtu.be/GDjCf2f60QU
All Night Thing
YouTube video by Temple Of The Dog - Topic
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September 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
#last4albums from my post-pub Friday night, a little moody & shoegazy after one too many IPAs.

Bedroom, DIIV, Dreams We've Had, and I'm really into the new Dream, Ivory.
September 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Pivoted from the Boston cancellation to Toronto and now this. It's so unfair. How could Kneecap be fine to play at Wembley, but not Toronto or Boston?
September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#MusicChallenge
#Top20LateNightSongs

Selection number 9. I'm a city gal & will walk miles, and this is the ultimate song for late night urban rambling. Alone in Montreal early this year, walking back from clubs in the snow, this was THE tune. Dreamy dancy momentum.

youtu.be/dX3k_QDnzHE
M83 'Midnight City' Official video
YouTube video by M83
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September 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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#Top20LateNightSongs

This one is for the nights when you can't let things go. Summer, regret, yearning.

youtu.be/29C2dqWSHSo
Still Corners - Summer Nights (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Still Corners
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September 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM