Great week for new music, featuring Bruce Hornsby, Emma Harner, Balancing Act, The Sheepdogs, Station Model Violence, Spectre Tapes, Weird Nightmare, Mikaela Davis, Arlo Parks, The Antinomy Insurgency, Peter Gabriel and so much more. Enjoy!
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So let's talk music first.
I want to highlight several artists, starting with Emma Harner. I have on occasion posted her music on my channel before, but her new album Evening Star to me evokes that magical time we all first heard Suzanne Vega's first album. It's a gentle-seeming album with barbs to cut to the quick and an overall feel that will leave you wanting more. It's impressive and I've included a few tracks this week.
Arlo Parks is another artist that's been at the corner of my eye for a while, and her new album Ambiguous Desire rewards that patience with a great sequence of tracks, especially in the second half of the album, where she flirts with near perfection over the course of 3 tracks close to the end. I've kept two of them together on this playlist so that you can hear what I mean. It's rare to hear a sequence of songs on an album these days that just flow that well. For example, I consider the last 3 tracks on The Police's album "Ghost in the Machine" to be about perfect, and I was reminded of that - even though the styles are completely different.
Vice put out an article this past week about 4 bands that their reviewer believe are criminally unheard and I had to admit that I hadn't heard of any of them. That's how 3 of the 4 wound up on this week's playlist: Declaw, Fencing, and Assisted Living. All three bands have recent albums that should be given a listen, and I've included tracks from those three bands this week. Declaw is the one that really speaks to me.
Okay, there is a Morrissey track in this list. I will say right up front that the man has said and done some pretty horrific shit in the past few years and I do not support them and in many cases condemn them. That said, there is no denying that his solo works hold a heavy influence on my life in the late 1980's and early 1990's. I'm not going to tell you what to think, but musically speaking his new album "Make-up is a Lie" is one of his better solo efforts, and I have included one song from it.
Did you know that there is a Disney+ series called "Dear Killer Nannies: Criado por sicarios" that is based upon the memoirs of Juan Pablo Escobar, son of notorious drug lord Pavlo Escobar? Did you know it has a killer soundtrack? I've included 3 songs from it, back to back to back starting with Female 3-Piece hard rock outfit The Warning singing in their native language for a change. Those of you who follow my playlists know that I think The Warning is the best hard rock outfit out there right now and that I've featured them a lot on my radio station. I've also included songs by TIMØ and Annasofia. It's a great soundtrack.
Do you miss the 1970's for some reason - the decade that didn't happen according to Zippy? I'm talking about the music and nothing else. Then maybe you should check out The Sheepdogs. They are a band from Saskatoon, Canada that has clearly immersed themselves in the Laurel Canyon sound of that era, and it shows in their music. Their new album "Keep out of the Storm" is a solid march through the 1970's and if you're into it, as I occasionally am, you should check them out.
Finally, I'm going to point out that Weezer and They Might Be Giants both have new albums coming out soon and they both appear to be great albums based upon the music I've heard so far. Stay tuned!
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Anyone else notice that Iran is now stronger on the world stage than they were when we started bombing them? They were a regime that was on the verge of collapse, being openly protested by its citizens, with an old man in charge who might have been one of the last of the original hard-liners. Now the leadership of Iran is younger, even more hardline, and after a chaotic start decided to take over the Strait of Hormuz.
This of course has the Crime Administration's panties in a bunch and they're threatening war crimes if the Strati isn't opened. But what I'm noticing is that the Straight is open, just not to us. Iran has set themselves up as toll-keeper for the Strait, with a specific route approved for ships belonging to non-U.S./Israeli companies. For a fee people are offered safe... well, safe from Iranian attack... passage. Most of the world has fallen in line here.
Iran has gone from a country on the verge of financial collapse to being on it's way to financial stability. The Crime Administration cam bomb as much as they want, but the revenue they're generating from the Strait will cover most if not all repairs and then some. Instead of bombing them into the stone age we so far have bombed them into becoming one of the stronger countries in the region. Don't even get me started on why the current administration allowed Russian Ships carrying Iranian oil through the embargoes. Or the fact that most sanctions imposed against Russia have been dropped. Or that Russia supplies intel to Iran.
It's really not much of a stretch to move from Crime Administration to Treason Administration.
And please, stop saying that "The Epstein Files must really be something". We already know that. We simply don't have the political will to do something about it. This needs to change.
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And has anyone else noticed that someone in Iran is one hell of a lot better at governing by Social Media than the Crime Administration is? I mean, just look at this:
If any other President this century had tweeted out "Praise be to Allah" on Easter Sunday they'd be dead by now.
What do you call a Catholic who uses a Methodist Church as the backdrop or his latest memoir? It isn't Catholic, that's for sure.
The Crime Administration has lost the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, held in the US for 35 years, to Switzerland.
So I looked it up, and the Courts of the UK cannot make the King of England testify - not even if he wants to. I honestly believe that's the reason why Charles III won't meet with Epstein's Victims. Anything that comes up in such a meeting might get excluded in court, because it comes from a source that can't be subpoenaed. Even in a civil case. Meeting with the King of England could potentially throw out the cases in England, and I think that's too big a risk.
UCLA won the Women's NCAA Basketball Championship yesterday. Go Bruins! (I'm Class of '87).
Speaking on behalf of all the sane cis men, Dale Partridge should have his testicles revoked.
Even on those rare occasions that I follow baseball I have never been an Angels fan. That said, what Jo Adell did is impressive.
I have to wonder if the head of the Crime Administration still thinks he's a TV star. I wonder this because it looks like he's trying to fire his way to success again.
Has the solution to Citizens United been found in.... Montana!?!!?!!?!!? Okay Yellowstone, show us how it's done!
I look at this and think that we need that one elderly General at the Pentagon briefing from "Hunt for Red October" to finally say "They have a madman on their hands."
Apparently the MAGA version of the song is "Fuck You to the Moon".
The thing about living in a timeline populated with people we've raised to be stupid is that they're easily fooled and vote Republican - which is of course what they wanted.
And because I love you, you should see and listen to this great excerpt from the upcoming They Might Be Giants album, which is confoundingly not a single as of yet. This is a great song.
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