New music this week from Muse, Sarah McLachlan, Pouty, Beck, a beautiful ballad from the late Prince, Foo Fighters, Yes, Infinity Song, Sofia Gobbi, Julia Cumming, Metric, Las Cruxes, HotWax, Miss Grit, Nanook and much more. Enjoy!
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I hope by now that all of you who read this blog know that these songs all wind up on my radio station, which is called interestingly enough, Radio Free California. You can click the link at the end of that last sentence or you can grab the app from the app store. Google only I'm afraid. I didn't like the terms and conditions for Apple.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that while I add these songs I also every Wednesday from 12am to 12am the following morning I play the list of songs above in order, with a break at 10pm Pacific Standard Time for special programming called 10 at 10. This is especially important this week because I've thrown in a couple of extras.
The first is a performance by The Warning, a band I've featured plenty on the station before now, doing a live version of "You Oughta Know" at SiriusXM. They recorded it over a year ago, but it was released as a single only last week.. and then the single was pulled from public availability. This means that I can't add it to the playlist, because Spotify doesn't have it. But I can add it to the radio station because I have a copy of it. I've added mp3 tags so the royalties will still get paid. That matters to me.
The second was the surprise performance by Michael Stipe with The Great Big Joy Machine on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week. The song is called "The Rest of Ever" and has never been released. I imagine it will be someday, but so far it's not. But I have it. So while this probably isn't an exclusive, it's here. Again, royalties will be paid.
If you listen to the radio station on Wednesday of this week, you will be able to hear both songs, right after Metric performs "Leave You on a High". And of course randomly for the next 12 months.
Speaking of Metric, their new album "Romanticize The Dive" is a wonder. A Toronto band transplanted to New York City, the new album is full of songs of a timeless nature (don't you just hate it when songs are called that?) I've listened to it three times since I got it and by the time you reach the last track, the previously mentioned "Leave You on a High" you feel satisfied that you've listened to something special.
I have never been afraid to play music by artists who don't sing in English. This week alone we have Ukrainian (OTOY and alyona alyona), Icelandic (Nanook) and Spanish, the latter of which is provided by the band Las Cruxes. Their new self-titled album is as solid as any indie rock band, just in Spanish. No reason not to play them - and I've added two of their songs to the playlist this week.
Can I point out the amazing songwriting skills of two artist this week, one of whom is sadly no longer with us? First is Beck's "Ride Lonesome". I usually don't get into this type of song, but the lyrics are really good and Beck has shown over the years that he can write a hook - even in a country song. The second is the amazing ballad "With This Tear" from Prince. Given what happened to him this song is truly heartbreaking, and the lyrics about losing a dying lover are like an extra twist of the knife. Prince was a one-of-a-kind talent, and this is a reminder of what we've lost.
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You know what? I'm not going to comment on the whole White House Correspondents Dinner business other than to say the one and only thing no one else has said. THE SECURITY THEY HAD IN PLACE WORKED YOU STUPID FUCKS!!!!!
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And you probably know that Kevin Olusola of Pentatonix, their beatboxer, is also an accomplished cellist. But I was only today many years old when I discovered that Matt Sallee, Pentatonix's current bass singer, is an accomplished drummer. Because I love you here they are together:
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