New music this week from Blondshell, chokecherry, Mourn, runo plum, Ed Harcourt, Red Lennon, Silversun Pickups, The Church, Prince, Noble Son and much more. Enjoy!
If there was ever a band that could help break the stranglehold that the English language has over alt/pop/rock it's Mourn, a band from Barcelona whose new album "Letra Ligada" (Linked Letter) is a certifiable banger. Every single track on the album is solid, full of hooks and worthy of you attention. At this moment in time they have very few followers outside of Spain, and we need to change that.
chokecherry is a band I've been following for a while as they've dropped single after single, and at long last they've dropped a full album called "Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls". Now that a full album is out there 5 songs from it are in the rotation at the radio station. I'm a fan and I think you will be too. To me they're like what Smashing Pumpkins could have evolved into if they hadn't gotten so obsessed with synthesizers.
Blondshell's new album "Another Picture" is well worth your time as well, a solid alt-rock effort that should in a just world translate to radio play on the Alternative radio stations. Save for all the words they'd have to edit out.
And I also want to highlight runo plum's new album "patching", which is a laid-back affair of melodies and some experimenting with chord changes that I found enjoyable.
Add to that new albums from Cheap Trick (who have never lost a beat in my mind), Monalisa Twins, Lyric Jones, The Korgies, Thee Headcoats and their sister band Thee Headcoatees, and a greatest hits album from Blackberry smoke with some previously unreleased music we wind up with a pretty good week. And I'll be honest, I didn't know I needed a 9 minute of Prince's "Pop Life" until I heard it.
Finally, I have to give a shoutout to an album that's not on the playlist - the soundtrack to the Broadway play "Waiting for Godot" with Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves by Ben and Max Ringham. There's nothing pop about it, but I found it fascinating to listen to.
Addendum: I'm on this playlist too! I am finally releasing a rock/jazz album - instrumental - which people who have known me in real life have been insisting I do for many years now. The first single, "Skyscrapers and Skateparks" is now available wherever you get your music. The album, "Frankfurt am Main", will be out in January.
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I usually write about whatever news is going on at the beginning of the week right about here, but there's really now only one story isn't there? Despite about 50 different attempts to Wag the Dog the whole sordid Epstein business just won't go away, and it shouldn't.
Do you even remember what the genesis of Q-Anon was all those years ago? It was that there is a political elite that traffics in children. One guy even invaded a pizza parlor convinced that there were children hidden in their basement - a basement they didn't even have. The Q-Anon movement pre-dates MAGA, and I think a lot of people have forgotten that because MAGA simply absorbed the Q-Anon movement, claiming it was their own. The Q-Anon people are easily swayed by conspiracy theories, and the MAGA movement capitalized on that.
Thing is, the original Q-Anon folks are starting to realize that the MAGA movement is led by members of the very child sex-trafficking ring they always suspected was there. They're not woke, but they're starting to wake up and they're pissed that they've been lied to. Q-Anon was there before MAGA, and they want their suspicions answered. Hell, just look at Margery Taylor-Greene. She was Q-Anon before she was MAGA.
I suspect that this scares the hell out of a whole lot of people - people currently in power - because they're all implicated. And I'm certain that there are a number of Democrats in these files too and they should be prosecuted and exposed the same as anyone else. It's just that I think that most people on the left side of the political spectrum have a sense of shame and I'd be surprised if any of them are still living public lives.
And that's the rub, isn't it? This scandal seems to be ensnaring mostly Republicans because they're still in the public eye, and they'll be the most publicly shamed.
Remember Dennis Hastert? He's not a cautionary tale - he's a trend. He went to prison, is on the register, and is still paying restitution to this day.
It should happen to them all.
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And because I love you, here is the video for my new single, "Skyscrapers and Skateparks". Watch it on YouTube to learn the full story behind it.
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