Yellow Chrysanthemu – Snežana Trifunović, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons This week’s show waffled between the themes of war and weather, in between rafts of new music from the likes of Flight Week, Vanishing Twin, Lucky Star USA, and the High Dials. Lots of anti-war songs including a new track by our own […]
Gustave William Lemaire, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Being less than a week before Halloween, it was the best and only time this year to trot out the scary music. This year, we’ve been celebrating since Michaelmas, which is early indeed for this sort of thing. But it’s been cool and grey here much of […]
Despite the sunny warm weather of the last few days, Fall was on our minds. We played a fair amount of autumn foliage music on Bubble Wrap Radio this week.Also in there, new music from ImJudas, The Clientele, Louie Zong, and Cleo Sol. This month, we’ve been enjoying random tracks from Big Stir Records new compilation Stir The Cauldron, a Halloween collection chock-full of seasonal chills and thrills.
Lots of interesting new music from artists we know and love, and bunch more from bands we never heard of before, including the usual assortment of seasonal rarities and oddball recordings from CG. Leading the pack, Enemy Airship, a new group that I just discovered from St. Louis, Missouri, whose new album Emperor, Somehow has […]
Bubble Wrap, the radio show, continues intermittently. We continue to broadcast the show from our home base every Wednesday night we can from 7-9pm. We had more than a few technical difficulties this year, but we aren’t complaining. We’re lucky to be able to do the show at all. Sometimes we think of giving it […]
Transfixed as we are by war and mass shootings, it’s not always easy to keep your chin up. But we try. Notable new music: The Happy Somethings’s “New Life,” a sweet and, yes, happy boy/girl duet about starting a new life. The Garden Folk: and their new collection entitled, appropriately enough, Spring ’22. It’s what […]
Périsélène and Mégadef prove that French people can rock. Mycatisgreen (from Belgium) gave us another ep of life-inspired ditties. Our favorite, “Bicycle,” features the inimitable Eric in the kitchen. Fontaines DC shock and amaze with — sung vocals! Could the British talk rock trend be on its way out? Ned Risely proves folk doesn’t have to be hokey. And bufflehead is fun to say (their songs are pretty good too).
This is the Bubble Wrap radio playlist from January 12, 2022. We’re just getting started, folks… Space Ghost What Day Is It? ZAPP Radio People Prince Elephants and Flowers Danny Wilkerson Enough for Somebody Fort Worth cool cousins second song Portland, OR Advertisement The Matador Seattle WDW Mad Tea Party Area Music King Crimson […]
It’s that time of the year when people trot out their best of lists, and we’re no exception to the rule. In contrast to 2020 when everyone was sadly recording alone in their bedrooms, 2021 was a bit more upbeat. The first 6 months of the year saw a lot of new releases, including some backlog from 2020. The result — a bumper crop of great new tunes.
The work don’t quit, as they say. It’s August, when everyone gets back to the old routine, and life starts anew. We aren’t sure how that works. Distracting us from intermittent anxiety were the hushed ambient waves of Bartosz Lugowski, the mixed media adventures of Zach Promesa, and the romantic swirl of Veronique Bilodeau. Big Rips (yes, that’s their name) wowed with a from-the-heart rock epic appropriately entitled “Everything Has Sucked Lately.” Jonas & I, Finland’s entry onto the indie-pop world stage, sound lonely and northern on their latest track “Yellow Walls.” A bit like Simon & Garfunkel if it was just Garfunkel…
ummer went fast, didn’t it? It seemed extraordinarily action-packed to the team tasked with keeping Bubble Wrap on the air every week. People came and went, the weather did odd things, we didn’t get to stop working our day jobs… But still Bubble Wrap played on except for a couple unavoidable absences for which we can be forgiven.
So to catch everybody up, here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re going to post miserable underwritten show lists for the last couple months, and then this article will say a few words about the more memorable tunes of the summer that at this very moment is fast fleeing into a haze of forest fire smoke and hurricane mist…