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On my mind... for the most part, I tend to just ignore the parts of youth culture that I don't understand (and as I grow older, my definition of "youth culture" expands).. I mean, I don't try to understand how and why a video of someone opening a box can get millions of views or how people can get famous on Tik Tok or Snapchat or whatever..
But, recently, I was thinking about the phrase - "you already know". First disclaimer: for all I know this expression is already passé... but whenever I hear it, I think - "No, I don't already know" or "If I already know then why are you telling me again?" But - even in this confusion, I will just write it off as my being old and in the way and move on...
But, it did make me think... how often do we assume someone already knows something... I mean as a writer it is often a fine line between overexplaining the obvious vs. making a reference and assuming everyone reading gets the context. I guess it comes down to knowing and reading your audience. I know when I did Double Shot with Sue - she would call me out sometimes for saying - "as you know" when it was something I know but which everyone listening may not know.
I mean, I should be able to make a David Bowie reference without adding a full biography of Bowie, but if I am a less famous musician or a lesser known fact about Bowie - I might need to add some context.
Okay - this makes me think about something else in a similar vein. If someone posts a quote or makes a reference I don't get, I may google it for context or I may just ignore it. But, there seem to be some people who feel the need to comment on things like this - often missing the point being made. I think it is an annoying habit but is it or is that how some people learn... I guess in general - there are some people who seem to feel the need to comment on every social media post even if they don't really have anything to add. For example, if someone posts "RIP *some name*". I can give a sad emoji reaction and move on - unless I have something to say about the person, but some people will comment "I'm not really familiar with them but... blah, blah, blah" I just don't understand that tendency or even people who will make a post about someone who recently died and basically say, I wasn't a fan but this is sad... again, I just don't understand that.
Today, we wrap up this week's Featured Friday Playlist and prepare the way for a brand new playlist debuting at midnight or tomorrow morning if I fall asleep like last week...
26. "Girlfriend" by The Silverbeets
The Silverbeets may be the first band from Tasmania that we have covered - or not - anyway, this is the latest single ahead of their forthcoming album Halcyon Days album (Due Nov. 13). I dig this band a lot. They craft a nifty psych/pop sound that really connects with me.
27. "Heart Light" by Jenee Halstead
Up next, we have the latest single from Boston-based singer-songwriter Jenee Halstead. Boasting a diverse musical background, I am struck by the original way she pulls her varied influences together and crafts them into a truly unique sound.
28. "Damage Control" by Isabelle Stillman
Next up, we have a track from the latest album by singer-songwriter Isabelle Stillman who recently relocated from Denver to Los Angeles. This is her second album and was recorded in part in isolation during the pandemic. A really catchy sound and a great voice. I dig it.
29. "Hot Today" by Taiwan MC
As usual, I am closing the Playlist with a couple of songs that add some variety to the mix. I believe this is the second track we have covered by this French artist on Chinese Man Records. From the new album Special Request, out now.
30. "Not Sorry" by Hell Boulevard
And, we close out this week's Playlist with the title track from the new album by Swiss goth rockers Hell Boulevard. It is their third album, and a great way to bring this week's playlist to an end.
Featured Friday Playlist
"Like Each Day" by 100 mile house (from Love and Leave You)
First up, we have a track from an album released earlier this year from this Edmonton, Alberta based folk duo. A beautiful and poignant song.
"Full Blown Freak Out" by Rick Hromadka (from Better Days)
Next up, we have another great track from this solo album by Rock Hromadka of Maple Mars. I think I can related to a Full Blown Freak Out. Digging this album which was released earlier this month - another track from the album was included on our Playlist last week.
"Venezuala" by Grant Peeples (from Bad Wife)
Florida-based singer-songwriter Grant Peeples' most recent album, Bad Wife, featured all songs written by women including this one written by Dayna Kurtz which appeared on her 2006 album Another Black Feather.
"Too Strange" by The Levons (from Too Strange - single)
This is a 2015 single by a UK band. From what I can tell, the band broke up a year later and no longer have a social media presence, but this is a cool song.
"One Mistake" by This Frontier Needs Heroes (from Go With the Flow)
Looking forward to the early 2021 release of Go With the Flow from This Frontier Needs Heroes. We previously featured the title track and first single. The whole album is great, and I can't wait for you to hear it - well I can wait and I will wait - but in the meantime, I will tell you about it.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
10/17 - The Fortune - "All Eyes" (single)
10/21 - Griff Clawson - "Chasing Highs" (single)
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)
10/23 - The Greek Theatre - “Demos & Alternate Takes Vol. 1” (LP)
10/23 - Raves Kole - 3D Immersive (LP)
10/23 - Andrew Weiss and Friends - Lookout Mountain (EP)
10/23 - The Subtheory - Impact (EP)
10/23 - Kevin Burnstein- Attack Distract Divide (LP)
10/23 - Paul Nelson - Birmingham Woman (LP)
10/23 - Rodney Rice - SAME SHIrT DIFFERENT DAY (LP)
LAST WEEK
10/12 - The Pull of Autumn - "The Stars of the Jungle" (single)
10/13 - New Yeller- "Mama's Got a Gig" (single)
10/16 - Malin Pettersen - Wildhorse (LP)
10/16 - Matt Eckstine - Lil' Blue (LP)
10/16 - The Mastersons - Red, White & I Love You Too (EP)
10/16 - Watch Clark - Generator Room (EP)
10/16 - Taiwan MC - Special Request (LP)
10/16 - Jeremy Ivey - Waiting Out the Storm (LP)
10/16 - Shape & Sound - "All Day Morning" (single)
10/16 - Davey Woodward & the Winter Orphans - Love and Optimism (LP)
10/16 - Burris - "Who I'm Thinking Of" (single)
10/16 - Bad Sauna - "Haluun pois (“I Wanna Get Out”)" (single)
10/16 - Volcanic Brass feat. EvilA - "Consoled Forts" (single)
10/16 - The Plastic Pals - "More Than an icon" (single)
10/16 - The Silverbeets - "Girlfriend" (single)
10/16 - Maxximo - Live at Home (EP)
10/16 - Taiwan MC - Special Request (LP)
10/16 - Rid of Me - Broke Shit Demos (LP)
10/16 - Isabelle Stillman - Heartrender (LP)
NEXT WEEK
10/30 - Andrew Grimm - A Little Heat (LP) *(NEW DATE)*
10/30 - Philip Parfitt - Mental Home Recordings (LP)
10/30 - Graber Gryass - Late Bloom (LP)
10/30 - Ghostlawns - Motorik (LP)
10/30 - Marten Larka - "Parfum Du Nuit "/ "Je Suis Un Rocker" (singles)
10/30 - My Politic - Short Sighted People in Power (EP)
10/30 - The Wake - Hammer Hall (LP)
10/30 - Wheeler Del Toro - Quiet Alright (LP)
10/30 - The Wake - Perfumes and Fripperies (LP)
10/30 - Strays Don't Sleep - A Short Film for a Long Story (EP)
UPCOMING
10/31 - Beauty in Chaos - Out of Beauty Comes... (LP)
11/06 - Love Tractor - Love Tractor - reissue (LP)
11/06 - Tom Mason - Under the Mistletoe Sky (LP)
11/12 - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection (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)
11/13 - SWANS - Children of God - reissue (LP)
11/13 - Last Year's Man - Brave the Storm (LP)
11/13 - Cindy - Free Advice (LP - Reissue)
11/20 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Sweet Krazy" (single)
11/20 - John Calvin Abney - Familiar Ground (LP)
11/20 - Josh King - The Shed (LP)
11/20 - Life in a Blender - Satsuma (EP)
11/27 - Lady Bugs - From the Cities, To the Shores (LP)
12/04 - Stuffy Shmitt - Stuff Happens (LP)
12/04 - Scenius - Enough Fears (LP)
12/04 - Bad Sauna - Olen rikas sillä minulla on teidät (“I’m Rich Because I’ve Got You”) (LP)
12/11 - The Red Step - The Red Step (LP)
1/01/2021 - This Frontier Needs Heros - Go With the Flow (LP)
2/05/2021 - The Orchestra of Cardboard - The Antidote (LP)
RECENT
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 - Adam McIntyre - Black Planet (LP)
9/18 - Nick Faber - "The Lost Highway Tapes" (LP)
9/18 - The Wake - "Perfumes and Fripperies" (single)
9/18 - Fabien Jack - "Silent Alarm" (single)
9/18 - Various Artists - The Last Shall Be First: The JCR Record Story, Volume 1 (LP)
9/18 - Magazines - "Home Alone" (single)
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 - Hell Boulevard - Not Sorry (LP)
9/25 - Ethan Gold - "The Last Dive" (single)
9/25 - All Night Dining - "There Must've Been a Reason" (single)
9/25 - The Roogs - The Roogs (LP)
9/25 - Stuart Rolfe and the Daylight Stealers - No Gas Lost Roads (EP)
9/25 - KnightressM1 - Dreams and Devastation (LP)
9/25 - Healthy Junkies - Forever on the Road (LP)
9/25 - Mav Nuhels; Metodo - "Quixotic Neutrino" (single)
9/25 - Teen Creeps - "Seeing Shapes" (single)
9/25 - Mt. Doubt - Doubtlands (LP)
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 - The Subtheory - IMPACT (EP)
10/02 - This Frontier Needs Heroes - "Go With the Flow" (single)
10/02 - Fly the Nest - "Wild Ride" (single)
10/02 - Christian Singles - Maybe Another Time (LP)
10/02 - Elkyn - beech remixes (EP)
10/02 - Short-Haired Domestic - Short-Haired Domestic (LP)
10/02 - Steve Poltz - "Quarantine Blues" (single)
10/02 - Elkhorn - The Acoustic Storm Sessions (LP)
10/02- The Orchestra of Cardboard - "Black Flag" (single)
10/02 - Lefthnd - Ad Mausoleum (LP)
10/02 - Klammer - "I Don't Know What It Is" (single)
10/02 - White Ribbon - "You Say You Don't Want Me" (single)
10/02 - David Woodard - The Grand Scheme of Things (EP)
10/02 - My Politic - Short Sighted People in Power (EP) - bandcamp release date
10/08 - Melting Mallows - "I'm Okay" (single)
10/08 - Jenee Halstead - "Heart Light" (single)
10/09 - Year of October - Wastelands (LP)
10/09 - Great Peacock - Forever Worse Better (LP)
10/09 - Fred Abong - "The Minit" (single)
10/09 - Zao - Preface: Early Recordings 1995-1996 (LP)
10/09 - Zao - All Else Failed: 25th Anniversary Edition (LP)
10/09 - Laraaji - Moon Piano (LP)
10/09 - Tomas Welding - "Arcade" (single)
10/09 - So We Are - Piece of the Puzzle (LP)
10/09 - Howard Gladstone - The Promise (LP)
10/09 - Rick Hromadka - Better Days (LP)
10/09 - Josh Werner - Mode for Titan (LP)
10/09 - Amelia White - "No Sound" (single)
10/09 - Seagoth - "Dreamworld" (single)
10/09 - Lee Taylor - "Pay It No Mind" (single)
10/09 - Kevin Burnstein - "Distraction" (single)
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