For your especial delectation: love songs from new artists including “Puddles” by UNA, “New Chain” by Two Bad Bricks, and “dirty little lovers” by Dead Oak. Dead Oak’s album waking comatose seems pretty remarkable on first listen — we’ll be playing more from that in coming weeks. We also enjoyed the single from Reds, Pinks & Purples, a cover of a Japanese band called Pervenche, as well as the entire new album Spider Dreamer Sweet Tooth by Friends of Cesar Romero. The wincingly appropriate “Royalty Loyalty” by XOXO Xopher is a real toe-tapper too…
At a certain point, things change, but you can’t quite tell from listening. This trend is going to continue, as some find their way onto a new track. Does it matter? Yes it does. Or not, as the case may be. We’re at the fulcrum of time and we get to choose individually which way we collectively go. Forming the soundtrack for the transition, and leaving aside oceans of electronica and seething seas of hardcore, we find grottoes of introspection and bedrooms of despair, clubs full of kids in black t-shirts yelling yeah….
Why?
Seek clues below….
April 29, 2025
Turning Around
Space Ghost – What Day Is It?
Carl Jularbos Kwintett – Pagla-Hambo
The Sundowners – Have You Heard About Huntley?
Louis Prima – 5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days
The Beatles – Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – We Surely Become Happy (Pervenche cover)
Steel Wool – Fading
XOXO Xopher – Royalty Loyalty
Bootsy Collins – Funktropolis (featuring Johnny Davis and Brother Nature)
Lemonheads – Alison’s Starting To Happen
Small Factory – Expiration Date
Lost Monsters – Every Animal Except Us
Steve Arrington’s Hall of Fame – Nobody Can Be You But You
Earth Wind & Fire – Getaway
UNA – Puddles
Friends of Cesar Romero – Sundowner Uppercut
Two Bad Bricks – New Chain
Lemonheads – It’s A Shame About Ray
Talking Heads – Found A Job
Linda Williams – Elevate Our Minds
Friends of Cesar Romero – Quality Inn Cambodia
Beatles – Revolution 1
Mutantes – Don’t Go Getting Lost Around Here
Grandmaster Flash – U Know What Time It Is
Rare Essence – Must Be Like That (edit)
Dead Oak – dirty little lovers
Enemy Airship – Godspeed = Lightspeed
Tackhead – Mind and Movement
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