“Easy On Your Own?” – Alvvays
Alvvays went eight years between albums number one and two. So a five-year wait for album number three doesn’t seem so bad!
“Desert Snow” – Local Natives
With the heat coming back after to Indiana after two very pleasant weeks, thoughts of snow are welcome.
“Burning” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah!!!
“River Mountain Love” – Truck Stop Love
A couple weeks back Spotify spit out an alternate version of this terrific mid-90s track by the best thing to ever come out of Manhattan, KS. I assume I had liked it because the original wasn’t available the last time I had looked. But I checked again and – thank you Music Gods! – the OG is now in the streaming catalog. Good stuff.
“Clampdown” – The Clash
“Bhindi Bhagee” – Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros
Last Sunday would have been Joe Strummer’s 70th birthday. Just another reminder that we lost him far too early. Here is his best song with The Clash and one of my favorites of his post-Clash career.
“Long Shadow” – Eddie Vedder covering Joe Strummer
In honor of that date, Eddie Vedder released this cover of Strummer’s “Long Shadow.” Strummer wrote this for Johnny Cash, although he never recorded it (the two recorded a cover of “Redemption Song” for Strummer’s final album). RIP, Joe.