E2TG 3/02/2021 - Not Sure Anymore - Slap It On Mix (Glaring Screens Remix)

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Okay - so the blog post - subtitle "Not Sure Anymore" isn't really some great existential cry for help or anything. I was just thinking about how there are certain "truths" from the pre-COVID times that I am now questioning. Again, not necessarily big "T" truths - but maybe those also. 

There was a way of life that existed for me (and I know others) before last year that is gone.  It is, I think, important to recognize that as the vaccine rollout (albeit disjointedly) ramps up and as COVID numbers come down (at least here and for now), and we begin to think about the new normal. I am very much looking forward to that time, but for me, I have to frame it as something new - not as a return to something that used to exist.  As for what that new normal will be or how it will differ from what came before... well, I'm not sure anymore... 

Featured Friday Recap (Songs 17-22)

17. "Can't Hide" by Jack Delamater

First up today, we have a track from the recent  EP by this singer-songwriter from Northhampton, Massachusetts. Delamater also leads and writes songs for the band Delawater.

18. "Backwards" by Kid Hastings

Next up, we have a single from the forthcoming EP by this singer-songwriter from LA.

19. "Barfight" by Afronaut

Next up, we have an exciting track from the debut EP by this band from Soweto, South Africa.  The band brings a diverse group of influences into this unique blend of music.

20. "Surkov's Dream" by Nick Hudson

We last caught up with Nick Hudson as part of the UK band The Academy of Sun.  This is the first single from his forthcoming solo album.  

21. "Sugar Rush" by Harri Larkin

Next up, a fun track from this alt pop funk trio of Sheffield UK. It is the first single from the forthcoming EP (the first of 2 planned EPs in the works.). A great sound. 

22. "Ain't It Hard To Be" by AndromedanMan
 

And we close this segment of music with an artist who comes to us from 2.5 million light years away.  The bio on this submission made me listen. The music kept my attention.  A great way to close out this segment of music. 
 

    Featured Friday Playlist

Tuesday Morning Shuffle

"The Grand Charade" by si, irene (from BEES - 2017)

First up today, we revisit this 2017 release from this most interesting Japanese band.  I could not find a video for this track so I picked one for their single "Awful Pop Song".

"Slap It On" by Jefferson Ross (from Live at Hillbilly Haiku - 2017)

Also from 2017, this live album introduced me to Georgia (and former Nashville) songwriter and singer Jefferson Ross.  A wonderful song about painting and great painters from history to you and I. 

"The Weeping Souls (Alain Johannes remix)" by Jonny Polonsky (single - 2020)

We got to know L.A. based singer-songwriter Jonny Polonsky over the last year, and this August release featured a remix by Alain Johannes (Chris Cornell, Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, and more). 


"Glaring Screens" by Plastic Barricades (from Self-Theories - 2020)

Next, we have a track from a November release by this duo based between London and Paris. 



"We Went to the Zoo" by Jovi Skyler (from Jovi Skyler EP - 2020)

And, we close this shuffle with a track from this spring 2020 release by this singer-songwriter who is based in Sydney. A wonderful track and one that slipped past me last year. 

VIDEO PLAYLIST

NEW AND RECENT RELEASES

THIS WEEK

3/05 - Steve Almaas - Everywhere You've Been (LP)

3/05 - Brian Damage - Yesterday's Slime (LP)

3/05 - Jason Ringenberg - Rhinestoned (LP)

3/05 - Susan Anders - 13 Women (LP)

3/05 - Elizabeth and the Catapult - sincerely, e (LP)

3/05 - Nature's Neighbor - "Monday Morning Drive" (single)

3/05 - Megan Lacy - Salvation (EP)

3/05 - The Sails - Bang!: The Best of The Sails 2006-2020 (LP)

3/05 - Jacob the Horse - College Party Mixtape, Vol. 1 (LP)

NEXT WEEK

3/12 - Rylan Brooks - If Wishes Were Horses (LP)

3/12 - Peter Case - The Midnight Broadcast (LP)

3/12 - Lee Taylor - Wild Woman (LP)

3/12 - KAKY - Room 404 (EP)

UPCOMING

3/17 - John McDonough - Second Chances (LP)3/19 - American Culture - For My Animals (LP)

3/26 - Departure Lounge - Transmeridian (LP)

3/26 - Gracious Losers - Six Road Ends (LP)3/26 - Oliver Beardmore - "Fiesta" (single)

3/26 - Swansea Sound - "Indies of the World" (single)

3/26 - Jack Silverman - Now What (EP)

3/26 - Oliver Beardmore - "Fiesta" (single)

3/26 - Cathal Coughlan - Owl in the Parlor (LP)

3/26 - Sunstroke Rain - "To Greta" (single)

3/26 - Modesty Blaise - The Modesty Blaise (LP)

4/02 - indifferentMonKeY - "God or Machine?" (single)

4/02 - Julez & The Rollerz - "Knocks Me On The Floor" (single)

4/02 - Elizabeth King - Living in the Last Days (LP)

4/09 - Dallas Moore - The Rain (LP)4/16 - The Brother Brothers - Calla Lily (LP)

4/16 - Stephen Flatt - Cumberland Bones (LP)

4/23 - DL Rossi - Lonesome Kind (LP)

4/23 - The Catenary Wires - "Mirrorball (single)

4/30 - Hadda Be - Another Life (LP)

4/30 - Nick Hudson - Font of Human Fractures (LP)

4/?? - El No - Nothing is Possible (LP)

5/07 - Manolo Redondo - The Lost and Found (EP)

5/07 - Benjamin Jayne - Theater (LP)

5/07 - The Purrs - We Thought There'd Be More People Here (LP)

5/07 - Ted Russell Kamp - Solitaire (LP)

5/14 - Soo Line Loons - Soo Line Loons (LP)

5/14 - Nature's Neighbor - Otherside (LP)

5/21 - Moon - Shine (EP)

5/21 - Desert Hollow - Thirsty (LP)

5/28 - Sharone - Morbid Illusion (LP)

RECENT

2/02 - Chris Donley - Please Agree (LP)

2/04 - Common Sage - Might As Well Eat The Chicken, We Won't Be Here In The Morning (EP)

2/05 - A.J. Croce - By Request (LP)

2/05 - Zadar - The Upstairs Room (LP)

2/05 - Vlaicu Golcea - HIKIKOMORI OST (LP)

2/05 - The Orchestra of Cardboard - The Antidote (LP)

2/05 - Peter Stampfel - 20th Century (Box Set)

2/05 - Ryan Allen - What a Rip (LP)

2/05 - Melting Mallows - Something Sweet (LP)

2/05 - Oh Ok - The Complete Reissue (LP)

2/05 - Emperor Penguin - Corporation Pop! (LP)

2/05 - Modesty Blaise - "Girls Just Wanna Dance" (single)

2/05 - Miguel Rios - Slaughterhouse Road (LP)

2/10 - Arrlo - "WFTWTE"/"LSD" (single)

2/12 - Beth Lee - Waiting on You Tonight (LP)

2/12 - Para Lia - Gone With the Flow (LP)

2/12 - The John Michie Collective - High Vibrations (LP)

2/12 - Joyann Parker - Out of the Dark (LP)

2/12 - Post Profit - "When You Think It's Right"(single)

2/12 - John Dunbar - Oh Wellness (LP)

2/14 - Arsenic Tea Party - The Really Not Good Times (EP)

2/14 - Danielle de Picciotto - The Element of Love (LP)

2/14 - Madeleine Mayi - 2/14 (LP)

2/17 - Alpha Cat - Pearl Harbor 2021 (LP)

2/17 - Distant Voices - Lights of the City (single)

2/18 - Gracious Losers - "Loath to Leave" (single)

2/19 - Grant Hill & M.O.S. - fly (LP)

2/19 - Keith Mosfet - "Now Your Life's Gone" (single)

2/19 - The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Songs From Another Life (LP)

2/19 - Boxteles - "You Can’t Fall in Love for the Sake of it" (single)

2/19 - Witch - Introduction (LP - Reissue)

2/19 - Jon Randall - "Keep On Moving" (single)

2/19 - Miliano - "Runaway" (single)

2/20 - Léanie Kaleido - "All The Things I'm Made Of" (single)

2/22 - My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult -Sleazy Action (LP)

2/24 - Kid Hastings - "Backwards" (single)

2/26 - Lou McMahon - Pockets of Change (LP)

2/26 - The Red Step - The Red Step (LP)

2/26 - The Blue Herons - "Endless Rain" (single) 

2/26 - Scott Robert Allen - Scott Robert Allen (LP)

2/26 - The Tummies - 9:30 Girl (LP)

2/26 - Nineteen Thirteen - MCMXIII (LP)

2/26 - Brian Bringelson - Burning Backwards (LP)

2/26 - Chicken Rich - "Hero" (single)

2/26 - Feral Ghost - "Roll the Dice" (single)

2/26 - Guspy - "STEEZ LUÍZ" (single)

2/26 - Julez & The Rollerz - "In Secure City" (Single)