New music this week from Blues great Eric Bibb, Flea, Night Talks, AMH, The Ramona Flowers, GLAY, Juliana Hatfield, Hana Hill, live music from Depeche Mode, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Goo Goo Dolls, Ronnie D'Addario, Thomas Raggi and much more. Enjoy!
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Eric Bibb and Flea have both release tracks in preview of albums they're putting out in 2026 and they're fantastic works. I can't wait for the full albums.
Night Talks' new album, "Running on a Cloud", took almost 6 years to make. It was started just as the Pandemic began, and they decided to slow down and give the album flow, tell a story, and make videos for each song. As a result this short 7-song album, is a breath of fresh air - they took the time to do it right. I added over half the album to this playlist.
The first thing I asked myself about the British band The Ramona Flowers is "how does a band with less than 8,000 follows on Spotify land Nile Rogers to play on the opening track of their new album, "Made By Humans"? However they did it that was certainly making a statement. The new album is good, and while there are touches of R&B throughout it's much more an indie album than that opener would lead you to believe.
You might not know the name Thomas Raggi, but the Italian musician is the lead guitarist for Måneskin, and he recruited legendary guitarist Tom Morello to produce his first solo album, and brings along a slew a guest artists into what is really a fun and rocking album. Not only Tom Morello, but Duff McKagan, Franz Ferdinand, Chad Smith and more appear on the album, called "Masquerade". On the track I've added here you can really feel Morello's touch.
If you want a blast of songwriting skill and excellence from over the decades you should check out "Written By" from Ronnie D'Addario. This is a collection of songs curated by D'Addario's sons, who are better known as The Lemon Twigs. Todd Rundgren, Matt Jardine, Sean Ono Lennon and more contribute tracks.
Erick Semmon has curated an album of songs by great parings in rap entitled "Dynamic Duos". Everyone from Snoop Dogg to Method Man to Cypress Hill to Public Enemy to Salt n' Pepa show up and contribute.
Those of you who know me know that I famously do not care for live albums. And yet, there are three solid ones out this week; "Live at Stagecoach" from The Goo Goo Dolls, "Live God" from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and "Memento Mori: Mexico City" from Depeche Mode and all of them are solid. Goo Goo Dolls' "Broadway is Dark Tonight" is one of my favorites from the band, and haw can you pass on any rendition of "O Children" from Nick Cave?. And do yourself a favor and hunt down on YouTube Depeche Mode's live performance of "Precious".
And speaking of YouTube, I have to finally give a note about the band AMH. They have been releasing YouTube shorts where they randomly pick an object from a modified spinner and decide to write a song about it. They show the whole process and while it's contrived and possibly staged the end result is actually some pretty good songs. There's no new album yet, but several singles and worth checking out.
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I've noticed a trend as of late to refer to the Supreme Court as "The Calvinball Six". I rather like that, and will use it myself.
To be honest I find it hilarious that the new/old guy pardoned an allegedly crooked Democratic Party congressman under the impression that he would switch parties out of loyalty, only to run as a Democrat again. So he's mad that a Democrat remained a Democrat. I find it funny/sad/etc. because the real story is the corruption, not the loyalty, and these people obviously don't get that.
So you're telling me that the guy who actually put Jim Kirk into space can't keep himself from polluting a protected Lagoon?
If anything that MTG said in her 60 minutes interview is actually true I would expect there to be a "Truth Social" explosion of paranoid rantings at a Napoleonic level in the next couple of days. Oops! It's already started.
Someone I know on Social Media who calls themselves "Bix" gave me this link to an article from the point of view of a Canadian State Department official. It's worth reading despite the click-bait (and completely accurate) headline of "We will never fucking trust you again".
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And becaue I love you, here is a quick reminder that the late David Crosby was one of the best.
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