Hello and welcome to our latest in the running series, Three Songs To The Head. Here we offer three songs we can’t stop thinking about, three songs we love, three songs we want to share with you. In this installment we feature Prom Queen, Childbirth and Radio Raheen.

–Jake Uitti

I was lucky enough to be in the KIRO radio studio when Sean De Tore was recording this tune with Celene Ramadan and Ty Foster. As soon as I heard the song I wanted Sean to send me the track. It’s a classic 50’s love song with simple but stirring imagery. Celene (aka Prom Queen) is a beautiful song writer and this tune will be on her new album, slated for 2014.

The first time I heard Childbirth I was immediately thankful. Their 10-track, 17-minute album is catchy, humorous and pointed. It deals with serious and painful issues women deal with day-to-day but does so with hooky guitar riffs, simple and plain lyrics and a wink. I feel like their music should be mandatory listening.

Radio Raheem, first, is a great band name, a reference to the Spike Lee character in Do The Right Thing. Their music is also great: powerful, positive and vigorous. Their funky song “Calling the World” is a dancy, futuristic song in the vein of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Seattle is lucky to have a group like this in our midst.