There’s a song I remember liking when I was a kid. Every few weeks, it’d pop into my head, but the thing is I could never remember the name of the song, or the artist, or much of the lyrics. All I could remember was the melody of the chorus, that it mentioned California (but wasn’t a Chili Peppers song), and that the music video involved a moving tattoo or something.

I tried finding using these scraps to track it down many times over the years, but I always came up short. At one point I thought it might have been an Econoline Crush song and listened through a good chunk of their discography trying to find it, but still no luck.

Then, finally — finally — I was listening to the radio a week or two ago, and the DJs were talking were about I Mother Earth, and they mentioned a solo project by their singer, Edwin, and his one notable hit, Hang Ten. They played a brief clip, and there it was. That was the song I had been trying to track down my entire adult life.

It’s not even that great of a song really. Absent the childhood nostalgia factor, it’s not really anything to write home about. But it’s such a relief to finally have that mystery solved.

There’s a certain list of bands/musicians who are a little too out of my usual wheelhouse to be a true favourite, but whom I enjoy keeping an eye on because they’re unique and interesting. Even if I don’t always like every song they write, I’m always happy to see them making new stuff, because I feel they bring something different to the table. That list includes the likes of K. Flay, Hollerado, Billie Eilish… and Wolf Alice.

Wolf Alice fascinates me because they’re such chameleons. I swear you could play five different songs of theirs and never know it was the same band if you didn’t already know better. One of their most recent is Bloom Baby Bloom, and once again it has a totally different vibe from anything else I’ve heard of theirs.

Normally I prefer studio versions, but this was a cool performance, so we’re doing a live version this time: