Exclusive Stream: Daniel Rossen, 'Silent Song'

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Click to listen to Daniel Rossen's 'Silent Song'

Grizzly Bear singer and guitarist Daniel Rossen will release his debut solo EP, Silent Hour/Golden Mile, on March 20th. The album came together as a way for Rossen to figure out how to make music that resonated with him after spending significant amounts of time on tour. "When you spend so much time touring around, you can lose perspective on what you're trying to do. All the sudden, I had no idea what to do or what to make or anything," he explains. "These songs were a way for me to figure that out again, getting my legs back."

Daniel Rossen's guitar-driven "Silent Song" is available to stream exclusively on Rolling Stone.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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