New music this week from my new discovery Wild Metanoia, Tom Morello with his first solo album, Marthy, Alex Amor, The Friendly Fires, The Menzingers, The George Barrie Band, Dan Seals revisiting his catalog (or at least someone is - I'm pretty sure he passed some years back), U2, Peter Gabriel, Bush, Father of Peace, Rubi Ate the Fig and much more. Enjoy!
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This past weekend I went to a street fair in Pacifica, CA and amongst all the food and art and everything else were three music stages, mostly of bands doing covers. But on one stage was an alt-rock three piece called Wild Metanoia. Three young people rocking the hell out of their original songs, channeling the energy of the early days version of Meat Puppets. I should know, I saw that band in their prime on their home turf. They didn't have a merch table so I hoped against hope that they had put a couple of releases out there and it turns out they have! It's all of an EP and a couple of singles, but I've included both sides of that single on this week's playlist.
It's worth it to get out there in the world. You never know what you might find.
At long last we have a new solo album from Tom Morello, who seems to be everywhere these days. Unlike his early solo works as The Night Watchman this is a hard rocking album, and as always his political commentary is turned up to eleven. If you're a fan of Rage, Political music and even just of him as a guitarist "Everyone Gets Everything They Want" is a must have.
Alex Amor's new album "Heavenly Bodies" is the kind of pop album I wish more artists were making these days. There's some real songcraft going on here and the music is fun and nicely produced. I decided to limit myself to only two songs from the album for this week and it was a tough decision.
Basement Alchemy are slowly working their way up to a new album to be released this year and while they're working up to it the first single they put out is called "how to have a good day" and while they've put out more songs than this and they're all good, this is the track I want you to hear. It's so damned upbeat and the guitar riff is both complicated and an earworm and I think this band is going to be one to watch once the album comes along.
I find it interesting that Peter Gabriel has decided to reverse the polarity and put out a "Dark Side" mix first with his new single. I have to say, it seems like Mr. Gabriel can't make a misstep these days. He's been putting one great song out after another and even though he talks a lot about mortality he doesn't seem to be anywhere close to slowing down.
Finally, I must talk about the Catburgers, a "never was" band from Scotland. They formed in mid 1985 amongst the rush of DIY-Pop coming around at the time, and played for a couple of years and making demos that never really got anywhere. They broke up in 1990 but decided at the time that they would record an album and never release it, keeping it secret. Welp, it's hard to keep secrets in the modern age and in 2022 a couple of their early demos got out and an Instagram post revealed that the album existed. After what they refer to as "Heroic Remixing" by Studio maven Archie Moore the album is now finally out, over 30 years since it was recorded. "Galashiels" is their only album and we all missed out on a great power-pop band. They should have been right at home with some of the bigger acts of the day.
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It looks to me like the Republican't party is winging up to blame Pete Hogsmead should things go as bad for them in the midterm elections as some are predicting. Come on guys, there's plenty of blame to go around.
And speaking of the midterms, hey! It's a migrant train coming up through Mexico! Be afraid! Be very afraid! Hell, even MTG isn't buying it and she was one of the ones crying about the last one of these (checks watch) 8 years ago.
Next season on Yellowstone we should hopefully get to watch Rip and Beth as they beat the everlovin' shit out of ICE agents who try to deport their workers. A guy can dream, right?
Alito recused himself from a case for logical reasons? Somebody look up to check for pigs.
It appears that I left Facebook just in time. Their AI is stealing from you, even if you told it that it can't. As I keep saying, if you want to understand the morality of AI, look at the morality of the people who programmed it.
I have been in recording sessions for more days this year than the House of Representatives has been in session. That's just sad.
And because I love you, here is the first episode of "Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl"
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