I was gone for a month, so this playlist encompasses all the music that would have been Radio Free California 2537 through 2540. Lots of good stuff. 204 songs all in all.
New music from the past month from Rubi Ate the Fig, Call It Off, Courtney Hadwin, Social Order, Parcels, Robert Plant, Sarah McLachlan, Lola Young, Little Quirks, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Darwin, Ida Maria, Jacob Collier, Call it Off, Adult Leisure, Taylor Swift, Say She She, The Autumn Defense, David Gilmour, All Time Low, Hinds, Mammoth, Catbear, The Criticals, Vance Joy, The London Suede, The Antinomy Insurgency, Halima, IST IST, BBBL, .38 Special, The Fearless Flyers, alyona alyona, BEAT, Theo Katzman, Frute, The Besnard Lakes, Sprin, dodie, Jay Som, Haircut 100, Boz Scaggs, The Amazons and so much more that it boggles the mind! Hours and hours of new music!
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Of all the new albums released in the past month, there are highlights in my opinion. Here are some of them:
Rubi ate the Fig is a prog band with a middle-eastern flair in their music. I've been waiting for their new album "Desert Electric" for some time now, and it doesn't disappoint. I've added 3 songs from the album to the playlist.
And of course the new Lola Young album "I'm only Fucking Myself" is a great album, and a worthy follow-up to her previous. I told everyone a couple of years back that she is going places, and it's nice to have been right about it.
Ida Maria is something of a rock and roll throwback, and her new album "Seven Deadly Sins +3" is exactly that - 10 songs built around the basic concepts of breaking every rule imaginable, and rocking hard while doing it.
Adult Leisure is a band with pop sensibilities and a bit of an alt-rock attitude that I've covered before. Their new album is called "The Things You Don't Know Yet" and is well worth your time.
Do you really need me to tell you anything about Taylor Swift, Spinal Tap, Robert Plant, or David Gilmour, all of whom dropped new albums over the past 4 weeks? They're all great albums.
Social Order is a band from Las Vegas that has dropped a few
singles in the past with pop/punk/synthwave ideas, and their new album would
feel right at home in the British invasion of the 1980's, and yet feels like
music of today as well. They dropped an EP's worth of singles in the past few
weeks, and you should really check them out.
I could go on and on and on. I picked one hell of a time to take a break from the internet.
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Of course I wasn't taking a break to do nothing. I have been involved in 2 secret and special projects, one of which required me to spend some time in Europe. Yeah, life is rough. That said, I can finally break the news on one of these projects, "The Weapon and the Shield".
This is a compilation of 37 songs by various artists from all walks of the world, coming together with a collection of protest songs, with all proceeds going to Amnesty International. The artists are being slowly revealed on the bandcamp page, with the album available for pre-order December 1st. It official release date is schedule for January 1st, 2026. Yes, I'm on this collection.
More details to come, including on-line listening parties in December. The collection was curated by English Synthwave artist Kiffie, who I have featured here before.
As for the other project? I'll be talking about that soon enough, but not today.
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No, I haven't seen the video of the new/old guy's response to the No Kings protests this past weekend. I probably will at some point because I watch Colbert, but I'm going to avoid it for as long as I can. That said, if you needed any further proof that teenaged boys are running things this is probably all you need.
This was my local No Kings protest:
The flag rotated.
It's still pretty unlikely that the Epstien Files, in
whatever form they exist, are going to be released in this country. But it
looks like the UK is marching full steam ahead, so we may still get to see
them. And ick, ew.
Camp Pendleton did hold a live fire exercise for the couch fucker during the protests (which were nowhere close to each other), and Governor Newsome did close a stretch of the highway (against the new/old guy's orders) while this was happening. Good thing too; a shell detonated prematurely and shrapnel hit a highway patrol car that was part of the Vice Presidential Motorcade. That's twice now that the new/old guy has tried to have his number 2 killed.
I should not, for the benefit of the current Speaker of the House, that the newly elected (and confirmed) congresscritter can't do her job, because you haven't sworn her in. Coward. Dude, can you even tell when you're lying anymore?
Look, I'm no fan of John Bolton. I think his ideas are terrible. But treason? Not a fucking chance.
Why is it that every time that amazon experiences issues on line that it's a "DNS issue"? You'd think that they would have that sort of thing addressed by now.
Now that actual demolition has begun on the East Wing of the White House so that the new/old guy can building his stupid fucking ballroom, how are the crews getting paid? The government is still shut down, near as I can tell, but in all fairness to the government Trump does have a history of stiffing contractors.
Oh, in case you didn't notice, there is no peace in Gaza.
Letitia James was indicted over a mistake on a single mortgage. The new/old guy is a real estate developer. How many mortgages do you think he has? Think they're all perfect?
Now that they've successfully brought back polio, measles
and smallpox, the MAGAsshats want to bring back... SLAVERY!?!!? What the ever-lovin'-fuckin'-fuck is wrong
with these people?
And because I love you, here is a tribute to the late Anthony Jackson, one of the greatest bass players to ever live, the reason that 5 and 6 string basses even exist, and the first electric bassist to say that you can use effect pedals when playing bass ("For the love of Money" by the O'Jays - give it a listen).
