Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6tm1B5IwgvzJajQewcADjn?si=884332fa461244c8 “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…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5I0blne2vjLyCW50vGdPQj?si=35ca6363708e4be1 “You” – Julianna Riolino Should a Canadian with a name like this play music like this? I guess that’s a dumb question, because clearly she does. I’ve shot some songs back and forth with my brother-in-music E$ lately that have fallen on the far side, for me, of the line between country and alt-country. This one lands one the…
Friday Playlist
Another week with a jam-packed list. The new music continues to roll in. I still have a couple tracks leftover from my podcast review. We just passed a significant music anniversary. There was a massive death in the music world this week. And an amazing YouTube find will cap things off. Strap yourselves in and enjoy. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1yTbBUlciclTbLO5rpzs2M?si=e48df13b6279468a “Girls Make Me…
Friday Playlist
Just a little more cleanup from my podcast archives research, a whole heck of a lot of new music, and no playlist next week due to travel means (at least) one more mega playlist for your listening pleasure. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3RMd9vUbM2i3tyciGfjuSo?si=fe9bdbeda7c4407a “In the Right” – The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness Some jim-dandy power pop here, my friends. “Overcome” – Young Guv…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 76
Chart Week: July 22, 1978 Song: “Baker Street” – Gerry Rafferty Chart Position: #2, 14th week on the chart. Peaked at #2 for six weeks. I’ve been wanting to write about this song for ages, and everything finally lined up thanks to an AT40 I caught last week. “Baker Street” is one of the greatest songs of its time. Or…
Friday Playlist
I continue to clean out the holding pen of music that is overflowing with both new tracks and classics I rediscovered while trolling the archives of my old music podcast. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7FY3DOvNCgtuXnd5SUzPxE?si=a2041e6372ef40fb “Alright” – Sam Fender The life cycle of albums can be strange. These days many bands will drop multiple singles well before releasing the full album. Streaming messes up…
Friday Playlist
Normally my Spotify playlist where I stash songs for the Friday Playists has anywhere from three to eight songs in it. This week is different, though. First off, this has been a very good year for music already and it feels like a ton of solid tunes get released every week. So I have plenty of new tracks to share.…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7FJgfElWvetUQUwMzeL88t?si=c3d2d74714364bd3 “These Are The Days” – Inhaler I had not heard of this band until this week despite them having a #1 album in Ireland and the UK last year. They are a four-piece from Dublin that sound a little like the most famous band to ever come out of Dublin. That’s no coincidence: lead singer and guitarist Eli Hewson…
Friday Playlist
Over halfway through the year; that’s kind of nutty! Be looking for my annual bonus playlist on Monday. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ptS7CPCztYAfNIpdvLtSe?si=e556e77807424c28 “Rubberneckers” – Christian Lee Hutson A perfect mid-summer song in tone, this is about how many people you run across in LA who have made messes of their lives. It doesn’t take much to extrapolate that to our entire country right…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2FbAXvuHtGlC0YyOzLsW1a?si=e73c41154e6b4525 “Birthdays” – Craig Finn Hey, I had a birthday this week! Coincidentally this is the best song from Craig Finn’s latest solo album. “I Was Neon” – Julia Jacklin The first single off JJ’s up-coming album was solid. This one cooks. “Wait ‘Til the Morning” – Frightened Rabbit Spotify suggested this, a bonus track from the final FR album,…