New releases get a bit more scarce because who wants to compete against all the Xmas music on radio, but we still have a great week for new releases, including Pastel, Little Lilith, Tori Amos with one of her patented covers, Joe Jackson(!) who appears to have a concept album coming next yer, my Australian techno frield MOULE, Josh Rouse, Juliana Hatfield, CVC, Crimson Whisper and much more. Enjoy!
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Juliana Hatfield is one of those artists that is special to me, ever since she did one album with the Lemonheads in the early 90's. Her sound has never really changed and she ALWAYS doubles her vocals, and I've always enjoyed her little snips of levity and wisdom. She's also one of the rare artists to have a hit single in 5/4 time, which is really saying something. Her new album "Lightning Might Strike" is among her best work, and is worth your time.
Pastel calls themselves Shoegaze but I wouldn't. They open this week's playlist and if that's Shoegaze they should really hire a different drummer. This is hooky pop rock with a punch and their new album Souls In Motion" was a surprise for me, and a welcome one. Well worth the listen.
I'm pretty good at following news about the former members of XTC, but I completely missed that Andy Partridge, along with Chris Braide (best known for his collaborations with Sia) and Tim Weller released an EP called "Queen of Planet Wow!" You know what, it's new to me so I'm including in here. Call me a hypocrite for adding a song that's from last year if you want, but I'm complicated and I can live with that. Nyeah.
One more album you should give some love to is Brooke Combe's new release "Dancing at the Edge of the World". The album is both a throwback and steps forward in the world of old-fashioned R&B/pop. It's worth your time.
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One little note for the few of you who check out my radio station from time to time; I have updated my Christmas playlist, which will play on motherfucking Christmas Day only!!!! I really hate Christmas music - not because of the music which is fine - but because how much we all get hammered with it from about mid-November on. It squeezes the life out of radio and I can't stand that.
And then comes the "year in review" bullshit. It can turn the month of December into a new music boneyard and it makes me crazy, because no one wants to try and compete with all the specialty programming on radio this time of year. I will not be doing that this year. I'm not sure I could limit the list to fewer than a few hundred songs, let alone 100 or a Topo 40.
I will play Christmas Music on Christmas Day and that's fucking IT. 12am to 11:59pm Pacific Standard Time December 25th. Some of the songs are the Christmas classics, some are deep rock and roll cuts, and some are sure to offend someone. "A Christmas Duel" from The Hives and Cyndi Lauper makes me laugh, and I don't care if it upsets anyone.
If you desperately need my playlist before then, you can find it here.
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So there was a mass shooting in Australia over the weekend at a Hannukah Celebration at Bondi Beach. Many dead, many more wounded and it could have been much worse if a fruit shop owner named Ahmed al Ahmed hadn't overpowered one of the gunmen. Elon Musk and his platforms tried to say that an IT professional named Edward Crabtree, a white guy, was the one who overpowered the gunman. Not only is this a motherfucking LIE it's a fabrication. Mr. Crabtree doesn't even exist. Muskrat's AI, Grok, is still pushing that narrative though.
Let's face it folks, Mr. Musk has read Heinlein, but he didn't really grok it.
I'm going to make a bold prediction here though and guess that the shooter is some right-wing lunatic with a gun fetish. You can attach this to just about any news story right now.
Apparently having ASL people presenting when he gives speeches harshes his the new/old guy's mellow. Fuck him.
Pax Americana is over. It ended January 20th.
Apparently we can keep Dick Van Dyke, and I'm grateful for that, but not Rob Reiner and his wife. Fuck.
Please don't read the new/old guy's statement regarding the death of the Reiner's. He's such a cnut. The White House official account also re-posted it. Every single one of these people in this White House/Administration needs a swift and painful kick in the ass.
I'd say it's a coin toss which was worse but apparently the new/old guy can't flip a coin.
Instead, read the words of Wil Wheaton. Your heart will hurt more, but it's a shared hurt, which is better than being angry at an old coot who can't flip a coin.
You might not have noticed this given all the horrific death and murder over the weekend, but Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's son, born in Minnesota and therefore a US Citizen, was pulled over by ICE and told to produce his papers after leaving a Target store. I think they've been expecting this though, because he had his US Passport with him and he was released. But given the new/old guy's recent comments about Somalia (where Rep. Omar was born) it seems like some racial profiling bullshit going on. For the record, Ms. Omar became a US citizen in 2000, the first year she was eligible to do so - when she turned 18.
I swear to dog that the very first thing the next President must do is sign an executive order changing the names of everything they have changed back to their pre-2025 status.
The Director of the FBI doesn't know the difference between a suspect and a person of interest. Again.
Apparently the United States is one of only two countries against rebuilding the containment around Chernobyl. Don't get felled out a window trying to figure out what the other country is.
Has Tom Cotton ever been right about anything? I'm guessing no.
By the way, it's worth noting that we now have young people in this country who have survived multiple mass shootings at their schools. To all those people who say that Gun Control wouldn't work, what say we try it and see if you're right? It hasn't really been done before.
Except for all of the times that it has, and it's worked.
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And because I love you, here is Caitlin Cook in a live performance from her musical made up entirely from graffiti in bathrooms. It's really fucking funny. I think we need that today.
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