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This week has been going fast or slow or something, I don't know. I'm kind of disjointed and feel like the ground is a bit shaky. This is another reminder that we are in highly unusual times filled with a lot of uncertainty and upheaval and change. It is okay to feel shaky and unsure and disjointed and confused. It is not okay to give up. Step back, unplug from wherever you are plugged-in, pamper yourself, get rest or stay up all-night, get busy, be productive, be lazy.
Whatever you need to do - but do it safely. Be kind to others. .Register to vote. Then make a plan on how you are going to vote. Mail, early voting - however you can do it.
Don't take anything for granted but don't spend too much time worrying about things that haven't happened.
All of the above is meant for me, and whoever else needs to hear it... on we go!
I miscalculated, I have been featuring four songs a day this week, but I should have been featuring five - so we will feature six songs today and tomorrow - to wrap up this week's playlist. Today songs 16-21
16. "Good News" by Petter Carlsen
Petter Carlsen hails from the far northern part of Norway - above the Arctic circle. This is the fourth single from his forthcoming new album The Sum of Every Shade. I believe we have featured at least two of the previous three singles - I tried to go back and look, but anyway... I have really been enjoying his music, and I look forward to the album release.
17. "I Saw a U.F.O." by Victims of The New Math
Next up, we have a track from the Phoenix, Arizona based Victims of New Math which is a recording project of Thomas Young. The music is influenced by Guided by Voices and Big Star and the song was inspired by an episode of the new Unsolved Mysteries. I dig this a lot.
18. "The Weeping Souls - Alain Johannes Remix" by Jonny Polonsky
Jonny Polonsky returns to the playlist with this remix from Alain Johannes who has collaborated with Chris Cornell, PJ Harvey, and more. Polonsky has a rich history which includes some incredible collaborations of his own.
19. "Downstairs Sunday" by A Shoreline Dream
A Shoreline Dream (from Barnum, Colorado) return to E2TG with their latest single taken from their recently released Warming album. They are becoming regulars here on E2TG - and their fantastic sounding shoegaze/post-punk sound is a big reason why.
20. "Endicott" by Leron Thomas
There is a lot to unpack in this incredible new release. Leron Thomas was a major contributor to Iggy Pop's Free album from last year. He is a trumpeter, composer, and vocalist. This song was inspired by the Kid Creole and the Coconut's song of the same name. It is absolutely wonderful, and I am really glad I got clued into this release.
21. "Record Collector" by Brophy's Law
Brophy's Law are based in Copenhagen but the band hails from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Denmark. Here - this lead single from their forthcoming True Stories album is about a young man in a cult record shop. A truly great way to close out this segment of music.
Tomorrow -we finish up our recap with the last six songs on the playlist. As usual, we saved some good ones for last.
Featured Friday Playlist
Wednesday Morning Shuffle
Well - this isn't Music City Monday, but by the now almost expected coincidence of the shuffle - all the artists in today's shuffle are from Nashville and vicinity.
"All the Love I'll Never Know" by Reckless Johnny Wales (from Runaway Train of Thought)
"All the Love I'll Never Know" by Reckless Johnny Wales (from Runaway Train of Thought)
We have been enjoying the new Reckless Johnny album - Red, White and Reckless (in fact, we had a track from that album earlier this week). Today, we go back to his 2018 release. Always good to hear Reckless Johnny - old music or new music.
"Shine On" by Heavydrunk (from Holywater)
Next up, we have a track from an album we featured last year. Heavydrunk is led by singer-songwriter and musician Rob Robinson who also owns Puckett's Grocery of Leiper's Fork.
"Love Conquers War" by The Danberrys (from Shine)
Next up, we have a lovely track from the new album by long-time East Nashville favorites The Danberrys.
"Bullets & Gasoline" by Shane Dwight Blues Band (from No One Loves Me Better)
Some fiery blues rock from an album we featured last year. Great stuff.
"Somebody Else's Money" by Stuffy Shmitt (from Dog Steal the Moon)
We have been celebrating new music from Stuffy Shmitt - including the brand new video of has new single - which we featured last Friday. This one goes back a few years, and it is one of my favorite Stuffy Shmitt songs.
"Dash My Dreams" by Joseph Mooradian (from We All Work Too Much/Dash My Dreams)
We close the set with a single - released way back in a February before everything went sideways - by singer-songwriter Joseph Mooraian who I have been following since he was about sixteen and singing Damien Jurado songs at church coffee shops. This track is not on YouTube, so I found a live performance from The Basement of a different song.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
9/15 - Darwin - "Unkind Lover" (feat. David J) (single)
9/16 - D.L. Marble - One Line at a Time (LP)
9/16 - HMS Morris - "Myfyrwyr Rhyngwladol" (single)
9/18 - The Pull of Autumn - Small Colors (LP)
9/18 - Adrian + Meredith - "Kids These Days" (single)
9/18 - OUTWAVE - "Moving Tangles" (Single)
9/18 - Anton Barbeau - Manbird (Double LP)
9/18 - Rahway - Slumlords of New Jersey (LP)
9/18 - The Persian Leaps - Smiling Lesson (EP)
9/18 - Dan Friese - Jane Songs (LP)
9/18 - Pelvis Wrestley - Vortex Vorever (LP)
9/18 - 4 Track All-Star - 5123 (LP)
9/18 - McClendon - Room 33 (EP)
9/18 - Red Eye - "A Girl Too Far" (single)
9/18 - EG Vines - "Them" (single)
9/18 - Julian Shah-Tayler - "Devil Knows" (single)
9/18 - Wynnm - "Milk" (single)
9/18 - Wynnm - Moonwalking (EP)
9/18 - The Asteroid No. 4 - Northern Songs (LP)
9/18 - Adam Kurtz - "M-I-LL-E-R Lite" (single)
9/18 - Nick Faber - "The Lost Highway Tapes" (LP)
9/18 - Fabien Jack - "Silent Alarm" (single) (? on release date?)
9/18 - of1000faces - "Astronomica" (single) (? on release date?)
9/18 - Various Artists - The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Record Story, Volume 1 (LP)
9/18 - Magazines - "Home Alone" (single)
LAST WEEK
9/06 - Chrisy Mc Cullagh - The Sun That Does Not Set (LP)
9/08 - Petter Carlsen - "Good News" (single)
9/08 - Salem Wolves - Never Die" (EP)
9/09 - Dark McGwire - Wylde Bunch Presents Dark McGwire (LP)
9/10 - Conrad Deadly - "Apple Tree" (single)
9/11 - Mike Barnett - +1 (LP)
9/11 - Atta Boy - Big Heart Manners (LP)
9/11 - Johnny Thunders - Que Sera Sera: Resurrected (Boxset)
9/11 - Brian Cullman - Winters Clothes (LP)
9/11 - Sunday Someday - "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" (single)
9/11 - Brophy's Law - "Record Collector" (single)
9/11 - Blink - "Every Day is A Black Day From Today"(single)
9/11 - A Shoreline Dream - "Downstairs Sundays" (single)
9/11 - Bobby Royale - "Bang Bang Boogie" (single)
9/11 - ASM - "You Don't Know" (single)
9/11 - Malin Pettersen - "Wildhorse Dream" (single)
9/11 - S.L.D - Lost (LP)
NEXT WEEK
9/21 - John Lensing - "Talk to Me" (single)
9/21 - The Silverbeets - "We Mattered (Once Upon a Time)" (single)
9/22 - Babybird - King of Nothing (LP)
9/22 - Mighty Joe Nolan - "Lone Wolves Together" (single)
9/24 - Magnolia Bayou - Strange Place (LP)
9/24 - XL427; Mensa Deathsquad - "Ideas" (single)
9/25 - Buildings and Food - Up Down Strange Charm (LP)
9/25 - Music Maker Relief Foundation - Hanging Tree Guitars (LP)
9/25 - Cayucas - Blue Summer (LP)
9/25 - of1000faces - Astronomica (LP)
9/25 - Shane Tutmarc - Written & Produced by Shane Tutmarc (Double LP)
9/25 - ASM - Blue Cocoon (LP)
9/25 - Mt. Doubt - Doubtlands (LP)
UPCOMING
09/30 - The Sea at Midnight - "Afterglow" (single)
10/02 - Buckle Bunny - Pet Speak (LP)
10/02 - Divine Horsemen - "Mind Fever Soul Fire" (single)
10/02 - Will Payne Harrison - The Stratford Sessions (EP)
10/02 - The Jensen Sisters - Yellow Frames (LP)
10/02 - Mantis & The Prayer - Murder Ballad and the Blue (AA singles)
10/02 - Kouatchou - "My Teacher"/"Change" (AA singles)
10/02 - Gold Hick - Formed at Depth (LP)
10/02 - Laura Fernandez - Okay, Alright (LP)
10/02 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Jim's Dad" (single)
10/02 - Leron Thomas - More Elevator Music (LP)
10/02 - This Frontier Needs Heroes - "Go With the Flow" (single)
10/02 - Fly the Nest - "Wild Ride" (single)
10/09 - Year of October - Wastelands (LP)
10/09 - Great Peacock - Forever Worse Better (LP)
10/09 - Zao - Preface: Early Recordings 1995-1996 (LP)
10/09 - Zao - All Else Failed: 25th Anniversary Edition (LP)
10/09 - Jeremy Ivey - Waiting Out the Storm (LP)
10/09 - Laraaji - Moon Piano (LP)
10/09 - Tomas Welding - "Arcade" (single)
10/09 - Howard Gladstone - The Promise (LP)
10/16 - Malin Pettersen - Wildhorse (LP)
10/16 - Monette - "Monotony" (single)
10/16 - Watch Clark - Generator Room (EP)
10/16 - Taiwan MC - Special Request (LP)
10/23 - The Agency - In the Haunted Woods (LP)
10/23 - Lera Lynn - On My Own (LP)
10/23 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Mommy & Daddy" (single)
10/23 - Justin Farran - Pretty Free (LP)
10/23 - The Luxembourg Signal - The Long Now (LP)
10/30 - Andrew Grimm - A Little Heat (LP) *(NEW DATE)*
10/23 - Andrew Weiss and Friends - Lookout Mountain (EP)
10/23 - The Subtheory - Impact (EP)
10/30 - Graber Gryass - Late Bloom (LP)
10/30 - Ghostlawns - Motorik (LP)
10/30 - Marten Larka - "Parfum Du Nuit "/ "Je Suis Un Rocker" (singles)
11/06 - Love Tractor - Love Tractor - reissue (LP)
11/13 - The Flat Five - Another World (LP)
11/13 - Andrew Adkins - The Echoist (LP)
11/13 - The Silverbeets - Halcyon Days (LP)
11/13 - The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! - The World Will Break Your Heart (LP)
11/20 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Sweet Krazy" (single)
11/20 - John Calvin Abney - Familiar Ground (LP)
12/04 - Stuffy Shmitt - Stuff Happens (LP)
1/01/2021 - This Frontier Needs Heros - Go With the Flow (LP)
RECENT
8/17 - KnightressM1 - "Lock and Key" (single)
8/18 - Jeremy Ivey - "Someone Else's Problem" (single)
8/18 - Matte Blvck - "Bare" (single)
8/19 - KC Beck - "Wake Me Up When This Year's Over" (single)
8/19 - The Persian Leaps - "Lost Cause" (single)
8/20 - Jessica Luise - "Television Mister" (single)
8/20 - Various Artists - For Belarus (LP)
8/21 - Eric Bolander - "Window" (single)
8/21 - A Shoreline Dream - Melting (LP)
8/21 - Liar,Flower - Geiger Counter (LP)
8/21 - Xanthe Alexis - The Offering (LP)
8/21 - Reardon Love - "Locked in the Panopticon" (single)
8/21 - Ghostwood Development Project - "Almost Human" (single)
8/21 - The Sea At Midnight - "We Share the Same Stars" (single)
8/21 - Buckle Bunny - "Lizard Brain" (single)
8/21 - Parker Lee - "Drunk" (single)
8/21 - Pozzi - Tyrant (LP)
8/21 - The Hengles - "Fire in the Rain" (single)
8/21 - Julien Shah-Tayler (feat. MGT) - "Evolution" (single)
8/21 - Bad Sauna - "Niin kuin se ennen oli (“As It Was Before”)" (single)
8/21 - Aquabats - Kooky Spooky ... In Stereo! (LP)
8/21 - Aquabats - "Dangerous Leon" (single)
8/21 - Little King - "Blend" (single)
8/21 - I LIKE TRAINS - KOMPROMAT (LP)
8/21 - Dan Friese - "Streetlight" (single)
8/21 - 3eon Vibe - "REDRUM" (single)
8/21 - Q&A - One More Jazz Thing (EP)
8/21 - Benchmarks - Summer, Slowly (LP)
8/21 - Tom Galloway - "Feel That I'm Fallin'" (single)
8/28 - The Northern Belle - We Wither, We Bloom (LP)
8/28 - Special Moves - Little Help (LP)
8/28 - Molly Tuttle - ...but I'd rather be with you (LP)
8/28 - Caterpillars - Where Shadows Go to Speak (LP)
8/28 - Certain Animals - "Truth" (single)
8/28 - The Agency - "Defender" (single)
8/28 - Dianne Davidson - Perigon: Full Circle (LP)
8/28 - Andre Salvador & the Von Kings - Self Titled (LP)
8/28 - Raveis Kole - "Angel from Montgomery" (single)
8/28 - The Blam Blams - Opening Night (LP)
8/28 - Jessy Yasmeen - "Let's Slip Away" (single)
8/28 - Michael Landin - On a Clear Day (LP)
8/28 - Jacob Wallace - "Wanderer" (single)
8/28 - Pace - "Boatman's Weather" (single)
8/28 - From Venus - "Unconditional" (single)
8/28 - Maria Shiel - Fire in the Sea (LP)
8/28 - Gold Hick - "Up Arrow"/"Trad Ghost" (single)
8/28 - Jonathan Plevyak - "Love After Midnight" (single)
8/28 - Thrillsville - "The Fever" (single)
8/28 - HMO - "Hate Speech" (single)
8/28 - Jonny Polonsky - "The Weeping Souls" (Alain Johannes Remix) (single)
8/28 - ReMission International (Wayne Hussey) - "TOS2020" (single)
9/02 - Leila - "By You Now" (single)
9/03 - COY Swede - "You Are" (single)
9/04 - India Ramey - Shallow Graves (LP)
9/04 - The Star Prairie Project - "Frantic Mind" (single)
9/04 - Soft Set - Love and Dancing (EP)
9/04 - Jabbawoki - Something's Cookin' (EP)
9/04 - Parker Lee- Scrundle (EP)
9/04 - Social Gravy - A Different Kind (EP)
9/04 - Andrew Adkins - "Vagabond Shoes" (single)***
9/04 - Dirk Powell - When I Wait for You (LP)
9/04 - Ghostlawns - "Ffoi" (single)
9/04 - Debbie Lagrange - "La chanson des moustiques" (single)
9/04 - Rob Clarke and the Wooltones - Putting the L in Wooltones (LP)
9/04 - New Way Vendetta - "Cool/Cough"/"1984 (On the Floor)" (single)
9/04 - Once Upon a Flatline - "For the Wretched of Earth" (single)
9/04 - Leron Thomas - "Endicott" (single)
9/04 - Short-Haired Domestic - "A song in German concerning gardens and goodbyes" (single)
9/04 - Annie Dressner - Coffee at the Corner Bar (LP)
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