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Our Featured Friday Playlist Recap picks back up with songs 17-24:
17. "Nocturnal" by Black Needle Noise (feat. Helena Mamich)
First up today - we have the latest single from legendary producer John Fryer's Black Needle Noise project - here he is joined by Croatian-Australian soprano Helena Mamich.
18. "The Man" by Society 1 (feat. DMC)
Next up, we have a collaboration between L.A. band Society 1 (led by Lord Zane) with special guest DMC (as in Run DMC). This hard hitting track sounds like a match made in...well - maybe heaven isn't the right word here... but this is damn good.
19. "Working Class Hero" by MANCHO
Chicago musician, producer, and music educator Marshall Greenhouse records as MANCHO, and he just released his cover of the classic John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album - which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. MANCHO calls his version Plastic Oh No (2020).
20. "44HH" by Makoto San
French label Chinese Man Records introduced a new series of releases meant to highlight new artists. The series is called DIG IT! and the first single came out earlier this month, and this is it. Cool stuff. The second is out now as well.
21. "All Right" by The Sacred
Next up, we have some hard rock from Nashville! The Sacred are a four-piece band - this was my introduction to them, and I dig it. The band have been crowd-sourcing their debut album.
22. "Mercury in Retrograde" by Departure Lounge
Next up, we have the first single from the forthcoming reunion album by this UK band - whose initial run was from 1998-2002. Peter Buck of R.E.M. plays on the new album Transmeridian which is due out next year.
23. "Cancel Cult" by Pushing Veronica
L.A. band Pushing Veronica believe rock and roll should have a message and that the message should be loud. This new single features a video that includes imagery from A Clockwork Orange.
24. "Save My Heart" by Madisyn Whajne
And we close out this segment of music with the title track from the debut album by this Canadian First Nations singer-songwriter. An impressive debut, and a great sounding record.
"All I Ever Do" by Great Peacock (from Forever Worse Better 2020)
We start off today's shuffle - with the first single (released back in July) from the new Great Peacock album which came out in October. An auspicious introduction to one of the best albums of 2020.
"Hungry Fires" by Justin & the Cosmics (from Hangin' Out in My Body 2008)
Going back a dozen or so years to the album that gave Justin Collins his social media handle. Collins has a newly released cover of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" and a new Christmas collaboration with Coley Kennedy.
"Headshot" by Jimmy Who & the Night Creatures (from Tinker's Blues 2020)
From way back in February - before the pandemic got underway - some great music from East Nashville. The band is a project of Mike Lynch.
"America, You're Beautiful" by Reckless Johnny Wales (from Red, White & Reckless 2020)
The inimitable Reckless Johnny takes on the complicated topic of patriotism in this divided and troubled time. From his excellent 2020 album.
"Songs of the Highway" by Josh Gray (from Songs of the Highway 2019)
I just saw a post that Josh Gray wrapped up production on this album two years ago or so. This was a favorite album of mine from 2019.
"Great Tornado" by Wilder Embry (from Great Tornado 2020)
And we close with the title track from an album we featured a few weeks back from singer-songwriter Wilder Embry. Great stuff and a nice way to close out this Music City Monday shuffle.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
Merry Christmas!
LAST WEEK
12/14 - Jane & John - "Our Year" (single)
12/15 - No Trombones - "Can't Let It Go" (single)
12/16 - of1000Faces - The Infinity Line (LP)
12/18 - Mauri Dark - Dreams of a Middle-Aged Man (LP)
12/18 - The Star Prairie Project - Surreal (LP)
12/18 - Shaking Chains - "No More Bets"/"Joy of Living" (single)
12/18 - Glenn Morrow's Cry for Help - 2 (LP)
NEXT WEEK
12/28 - Baby Chemist - "I'll Still Be Here" (single)
1/01? - Antonio Lopez - Roots and Wings (LP)
1/01 - TYPIFŸ - "I Am Alternative" (single)
1/01 - Adam Klein - Little Tiger (EP)
UPCOMING
1/04 - Skanker - "A Chance to Count the Cost" (single)
1/08 - Revelry - "Dirty" (single)
1/08 - Jeremy Parsons - Things to Come (LP)
1/08 - The Lickerish Quartet - Threesome Vol. 2 (EP)
1/11 - Hats off Gentlemen It's Adequate - Feeling Great (EP)
1/11 - Malcolm Galloway - Wasp 76b (EP)
1/14 - Cole Scheifele - "All the While" (single)
1/15 - Corey Ledet - Corey Ledet Zydeco (LP)
1/15 - Leah Watts - "We Are All Enough" (single)
1/15 - Andrew Toy - Guardrails (LP)
1/15 - Marijuana Johnson - Gem City Kush (LP)
1/22 - This Frontier Needs Heros - Go With the Flow (LP)
1/22 - The Burnt Pines - The Burnt Pines (LP)
2/05 - A.J. Croce - By Request (LP)
2/05 - The Orchestra of Cardboard - The Antidote (LP)
2/12 - Beth Lee - Waiting on You Tonight
2/12 - The John Michie Collective - High Vibrations (LP)
2/14 - Madeleine Mayi - love me (LP)
2/19 - Grant Hill & M.O.S. - fly (LP)
2/26 - The Red Step - The Red Step (LP)
3/12 - Rylan Brooks - If Wishes Were Horses (LP)
RECENT
11/18 - Charlie Nieland - "Divisions" (single)
11/20 - Stuffy Shmitt - "Sweet Krazy" (single)
11/20 - John Calvin Abney - Familiar Ground (LP)
11/20 - Fred Abong - "Invisible Man" (single)
11/20 - Tucker Lane - "Love or Hatred" (single)
11/20 - Josh King - The Shed (LP)
11/20 - I Am a Rocketship - oRAnGE (EP)
11/20 - Soft Kill - Dead Kids, RIP City (LP)
11/20 - Paperwing - "Dedicated" (single)
11/20 - Fitzsimon and Brogan - This Wicked Pantomime (LP)
11/20 - Ghost Town Remedy - Dry Spell (LP)
11/20 - Pale Moon - "Stranger" (single)
11/20 - Red Sky Mourning - "Signs from You" (single)
11/20 - PictureHouse - 1999- Live in Dublin (LP)
11/20 - Candy Opera - The Patron Saint of Heartache (LP)
11/20 - Grant Hill & M.O.S. - "My First Friend" (single)
11/20 - Life in a Blender - Satsuma (EP)
11/23 - Plastic Barricades - Self Theories (LP)
11/24 - The Pinx - Christmas Single (EP)
11/27 - Lady Buds - From the Cities, To the Shores (LP)
11/27 - Shadi G - "Space" (single)
11/27 - Lars Finberg - Tinnitus Tonight (LP)
11/27 - Wet Tropics - Everybody Get In (LP)
11/27 - Berlin - Strings Attached (LP)
11/27 - Perfectparachutepicture - "Lonely Landslide" (single)
11/27 - BlackSheepLad - Sleeping Alone in the Daytime (EP)
11/28 - Loud Life - "Been Wondering" (single)
11/30 - The Amber Bugs - "Rat vs Mole" (single)
11/30 - Paul Yoon - About Time (LP)
11/30 - Eastern European Music Academy - 2020 Compilation (LP)
12/04 - Murdocco - "Rainy Day" (single)
12/04 - Stuffy Shmitt - Stuff Happens (LP)
12/04 - Scenius - Enough Fears (LP)
12/04 - Victor Jones - "Woman in Red" (single)
12/04 - Meilir - In Tune (LP)
12/04 - Facing Mountains - Season's End (LP)
12/04 - Bailey Bigger - Let's Call it Love (EP)
12/04 - This Frontier Needs Heroes - "Dumb It Down" (single)
12/04 - HMS Morris - Pastille (EP)
12/04 - Ten Ton Hammers - New Failures (EP)
12/04 - Thrillsville - Say Goodbye to the Light (EP)
12/04 - Eckhardt and the House - "Oh Oh Oh" (single)
12/04 - Bad Sauna - Olen rikas sillä minulla on teidät (“I’m Rich Because I’ve Got You”) (LP)
12/07 - The Cravens - Distance of One (single)
12/09 - Emma Swift - Blonde on the Tracks (LP - streaming release)
12/09 - Seven Red Lions - "Under the Skin" (single)
12/11 - Jessye DeSilva - "Drifter" (single)
12/11 - Tacsidermi - "Gwir" (single)
12/11 - Victor Jones - Long Cold Night Walk (LP)
12/11 - MANCHO - Plastic Oh No (LP)
12/11 - Fear Rua - "Social Distancing" (single)
12/11 - Remington Super 60 - "I Won't Change My Mind" (single)
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