For a reader who rides the commuter rails each day, here’s a song from the Roches:

A real treat today — Ben Sommer’s cover of Sister from the Black Keys’ El Camino. Enjoy!

I’m neither Irish nor English, but one needn’t be to enjoy Irish Blood, English Heart. Irish blood, English heart, this I’m made of There is no-one on earth I’m afraid of And no regime can buy or sell me I’ve been dreaming of a time when To be English is not to be baneful To…

A treat today — Ben Sommer’s cover of Pumped up Kicks. Enjoy — I’m very sure you will. Ben describes his recording of the song — Pumped Up Kicks If you haven’t heard “Pumped up Kicks” yet then you don’t listen to radio. That makes two of us. Yes the song is catchy but insufferable.…

Ben writes about his latest song Deo Gracias Angliafrom his latest album, a song featured here originally last Friday. One dates oneself to write about liner notes, but there was great value in reading what a musician thought about his or her music that’s been lost without those notes. Commentary like Ben’s restores that additional…

The best moments of blogging aren’t in the writing, but in reading of others; not in saying, but in listening. It’s more than a treat to discover, and now to premiere, the sharp and compelling — here’s the FW premiere of Ben Sommer’s Deo Gracias Anglia from his latest album, Super Brain. Readers know and…

Ben writes about his latest release: Here’s track #10 off the new album: Dark Grey Matter. I lied last week when I said that Count To Twelve was the first rock song I wrote after grad school. This was the first one. I wrote it in the garret appartment that my wife and I rented in 2001…

Here’s our Monday music feature, today from Ben Sommer. Ben writes about his latest track, Count to Twelve, from his latest album, Super Brain: Here’s track #9 off the new album: Count To Twelve. This is another old one – written and largely recorded in the winter of 2002. Though it probably sounds like straight-up…

From their album, Sigh No More.

Earlier this week, I wrote about the premiere of a track from Ben Sommer’s Super Brain here on FREE WHITEWATER. That’s not, in fact, set for today (I was ahead of things), but I’ve the first video from the album that I will embed. Thanks much to the readers who’ve written with positive comments about…

Here are links to the fifth and sixth tracks from Super Brain: Militarism and Cadaverism are available online as mp3s with accompanying lyrics. (Ben Sommer, voice). Original September premiere at Young Americans for Liberty. Ben describes the songs: Militarism. The inspiration for this piece was the 2000 presidential debates, where George Bush said “don’t mess…

Here’s today’s link to the fourth track from Super Brain: Consumerism is available online as an mp3 with accompanying lyrics. (Ben Sommer, voice). Original September premiere at Young Americans for Liberty. Sommer talks about the song: I wrote it in 1997, in the downtown branch of the San Diego Public Library. I was out west…