We have a really eclectic mix this week! New music this week from internet sensations Angine de Poitrine, Suzi Quatro, Ellur, Momo Boyd, Snail Mail, Flea with Nick Cave, Stanley Simmons, Trashcan Sinatras, Tailgunner, The Jaws of Brooklyn and much more. Enjoy!
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For those of you who don't know, this week's opener is the art-rock band Andine de Poitrine, a mostly instrument band that uses unusual time signatures and micro-tuning in their music. Micro-tuning is incredibly rare in any form of music but these guys might be the first to really try it in a pop music setting. If you look at their guitarist's guitar you will see rather a large number of additional frets in between the usual guitar frets, allowing him to move halfway from one chromatic note to the next. If you didn't understand any of what I just said that's okay - the musicians got it and you can tell people that's why it sounds so strange. Their new single has a good vibe to it and so I've included it here.
Welp, hell must have frozen over. Not only is there a Charlie Puth song on here, it's with Kenny G. I DESPIZE Kenny G. Kenny G and his out-of-tune motherfucking soprano sax. The man has very little tonal control over what is his primary claim to fame and it makes me crazy. Give the man a tenor sax and I have no complaints. So how the hell did this happen? I think Mr. Puth has taken a little time to understand songwriting, and on his new album it shows. It's mostly mid to late 80's stuff, but it's well done. But Kenny G? Well, he's kept surprisingly in tune here and it works. Maybe Mr. Puth, who has perfect pitch, did some work on this one.
Count me as shocked as anyone.
At last Flea's solo album Honora finally dropped and if you were looking for Red Hot Chilli Peppers cast-offs you're going to be disappointed. Flea has put out a beautiful, sublime album that owes more to jazz than anything else, taking advantage of his trumpet skills as well as his bass skills with a beautiful arrangement of Frank Ocean's "Thinkin' 'bout You" (which I've added previously) and a haunting rendition of "Wichita Lineman" that features Nick Cave on vocals.
If it weren't for some of the production tricks you'd think that the self-titled new album from Uni Boys came out in the 1960's. Pure jangle pop like you haven't heard in decades and it's pretty catchy too.
Zakk Wylde fronted Black Label Society has a new album out and in addition to some very obvious nods to Ozzy Osbourne is some pretty good riff-based rock and roll. I've given you a couple of songs here, but I have NOT included the final track, which is a direct tribute to the late singer that gave him his career. It's going to be a hit, but I found it so drenched in syrup that I couldn't bring myself to like it.
Suzi Quattro's new album has also dropped, and for the most part it's a straight-ahead rocker, which to be fair is what she does. The remake of "Kick Out The Jams" with Alice Cooper is pretty good, but I close out this list with the unlikely "Choose Yourself", which I think is the best song on the album.
Finally I have to point out King Tuff, this year's latest entrant in the "I want to be T-Rex" contest. It's one of the better efforts in this vein, and the song I've added "Stairway to Nowhere" has a truly inspired bass line.
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Imagine hearing the call to serve your country as a young man or woman. You're a badass so you join the Marines. You go through training, gain a specialty, get trained, and are now graduate from the academy as an officer ready to spend the next few years (and maybe 20 or more) in service to your country.
Now imagine your parents coming to see you graduate only to be arrested and deported after an undeterminate stay in a prison camp.
Still want to serve your country?
Want to punch Stephen Miller in his motherfucking face?
The level of cruelty here is just astonishing. These kids have been brought up to be proud of their country; in a nation without a draft there absolutely must be a calling to be willing to put your life on the line to defend your country. I never felt that call myself but I know many who have and I find zero fault in their actions. These are good Americans, and we're about to deport the very people who raised them to become this.
I worry about much more than that. Imagine being a graduate, a person on officer and/or career track who is rewarded for their hard work by having their parents and perhaps other family members deported. Aren't you worried that this will create a deep-seated resentment of the country they signed up to serve?
Aren't you worried that this resentment will lead some of these graduates to be easy targets for spies? Aren't you concerned that they will become spies for the very countries you've deported their families to in exchange for positive treatment for their families by those very governments?
Aren't you worried that we've created our own worst enemies?
I am. I want to punch Stephen Miller in his motherfucking face. I won't, but I want to.
I'm an American and I love what this country is supposed to be.
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So Dog Killer Noem's husband is a cross-dressing on-line person wearing fake lopsided breasts while conversing with fetish models and running up a tab of over $25K? All while claiming his "Christian" faith? All while saying he is keeping his marriage together despite the obvious cheating the former head of DHS has doing with one of her staffers? And Noem didn't put him down with the dog and the goat? As one of my on-line friends said, "Christian nationalist spokes-model in an all but public affair has gay husband seems pretty boilerplate at this point. I feel like we get one or two of these a week."
Tomorrow is April Fool's Day, and of course the leader of the Crime Administration wants to give a speech to the nation. Something about Iran, Ballroom, Ask me about sex, whatever. I'm sure it will be just as focused.
Tomorrow we're also supposed to see major attacks from Iran on the Tech Industry in that region. That sounds somewhat more focused. There are a LOT of Datacenters in the region, because power is cheap.
Every Western State votes by mail. Oregon, Washington, and California. Fuck that East Coast President.
The Trans Agenda: To die of old age. Same as the rest of us. I support this.
And because I love you, I was todayy years old when I learned that this didn't start out as a song by the clash, but as a song by Eddy "Electric Avenue" Grant and his band The Equals.
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