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All of this happened a long time ago when the world was a very different place. Of course, none of us knew that at the time.
(From The Drift - A Novel by Joe Wolfe-Mazeres) Available at Amazon.com (Kindle edition also available)
Hey! Someone encouraged me to create an E2TG Playlist on Spotify. I was going to do one for the first six months of 2018 but that was going to be too long a playlist - so I created one for artists/albums featured in January 2018. These are not all January releases (some were released earlier and some later) but all were featured on E2TG during that month. I am planning to create playlists for every month - once I catch up, I will create the playlist right after a month ends.
Anyway, if this is something you'd like to check-out, you can do it HERE. I may just expand this playlist or eventually, I may have a current E2TG playlist and periodically update it. We'll see. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, it's time to jump back into the "New Music" playlist on my phone - and today's "Trending Tuesday" shuffle.
Let's go!
"New Blood" by We Are Parasols
We Are Parasols - an industrial gaze band - based in Portland, OR and Atlanta, GA have a new EP due out at the end of September - called No Center Line. This is a track from their 2017 Full-Length album, Intertia.
"Get Outta Town" by Bark
Our friends Tim and Susan Bauer Lee of Bark released a single on Record Store Day. I was fortunate enough to get a copy of that single when Bark played here in Nashville a few weeks ago. This is the a-side of the release called, A Single Bark. I could find a video of this song, but if you want to listen - here is an embed - which you can also follow to buy your copy. The 45 comes with a digital download card.
"Summer Colors" by Nova Flares
Nova Flares is a surfgaze, neo-psych, indie-rock project from Berea, Kentucky - primarily the work of Jason Wagers. This is the opening track from the self-titled EP which is their first release. Vibey good stuff. Berea, Kentucky is located just south of Lexington - about 3 hours and change from Nashville.
"Rattler" by Fred Abong
Next up is a first listen to Homeless - the recently released six song EP by Fred Abong - who was a founding member of Throwing Muses and Belly - an who recently played some dates with his former Throwing Muses band mate Kristin Hersh (who we have been featuring here). Abong, who has a PhD has been working as a Savage Philosopher and Astrological Vedic in Newport, Rhode Island. As I said, this is my first real listen, and I'm digging it. More to come.
"Shoeshine Charlie" by Jon Dee Graham
Former True Believers member and long-time Austin resident Jon Dee Graham passed through Nashville a few months back and played as show with Ben de la Cour. I picked up a copy of his album Knoxville Skyline - which features the aforementioned Tim and Susan Bauer Lee. This was one of the songs from that album that he played that night. The song features characters - including the title character - based upon regulars from The Continental Club in Austin.
"Country Girl" by Charlie Smyth
We have been featuring Charlie Smyth formerly of The Western Shore and his album The Way I Feel - for some time. I am happy to announce that the album is out now. You can find it on Itunes. I met Smyth at a Tim Carroll Happy Hour probably almost four years ago. He is a wonderful songwriter with a distinctive voice.
"Pipe Dream" by Reckless Johnny Wales
More timely truth-telling from Reckless Johnny Wales form his latest album Runaway Train of Thoughts. He has some pointed words - put those pipe dreams in your pipe... Nashville is a city of characters with larger than life stories. Reckless Johnny towers above most of us. He is at once larger than life and about as real as it gets.
"Submarine" by Life in a Blender
We close things out with another track from Happy Enough by long-running Brooklyn band Life in a Blender. The band features friend of E2TG Rebecca Weiner Tompkins (also of Conrad y Skordalia). The band has a long, time connection to E2TG favorites The End Men. On this track - they dive deeper with "Submarine".
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