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A new week. This month finds your intrepid music blogger finishing up his tenth year of featuring great music without limits.
This week, I begin to tentatively venture out into this strange new landscape - with some events planned.
Next up - Part 2 of our Feat. Friday Playlist Recap and below the jump - our weekly Music City Monday shuffle...
Featured Friday Playlist recap Part 2 (songs 13-22):
13. "Say Something" by Emma-Jean Thackery
Up first today is the new single from London based bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and producer Emma-Jean Thackery from her forthcoming album Yellow (due in July). Fantastic music.
14. "Treading Water" by Charm of Finches
Next up, we have the new single from this Australian electric chamber indie folk sister duo. The lovely track tackles complex emotions.
15. "The Faded Ones" by Ben DeHan
Next up, we have the recent single from this Maryland based artist. Check it out!
16. "Welcome to the Big Top" by The Rose Petals
We previously featured an earlier single - but American Grenadine is out now from this West Coast duo of Elijah Ocean and Peter Donovan. Great tunes.
17. "Wasteland" by Tim Kile
Austin based singer-songwriter just released his debut solo album These Things Are Being Gathered for The Fire. Kile was a founding member of Arcade Fire and of the band Wild Light. Really dig this new music.
18. "And the Lights Went out All over Town" by Modesty Blaise
We continue coverage of the The Modesty Blaise - the first album in 20 years from this UK band. This is the latest single from that album, and it is a fresh slice of classic 90s British indie pop. A great song.
19. "Everything She Touches Is Gold to Me" by Said the Whale
Next up, we have the release from songs written during 2020s break from 14 years of constant touring by this band who are based out of Vancouver B.C. A wonderful love song.
20. "Stranger Among Friends" by Distant Voices
We have the latest single from an album we have been covering for a while - London based Distant Voices released their debut album Long Road to Home back in March. It is great to be able to feature more from this excellent album.
21. "What Did the Music Sound Like" by Lea Thomas
Lea Thomas is Japanese American singer-songwriter who was born is Hawaii and is now based out of Brooklyn. This is her latest single, and I love it.
22. "Burst Through the Borders" by Caulbearers
And we close out this segment of music with the latest from Manchester based Caulbearers - who formed in 2007. This is a worthy addition to the rich musical heritage of the UK city.
Featured Friday Playlist
"Lost With You" by Stephie James (from These Days - 2020)
First up, Detroit native Stephie James from her excellent 2020 release.
"Yellow Dotted Line #1" by Paul Nelson (from Birmingham Woman - 2020)
Another great 2020 release this from the singer-songwriter who arrived in Nashville from Boston in 2016.
"Cheatin'" by Loudon Wainwright III (from Years in the Making - 2018)
Loudon Wainwright spent a short time in Nashville (and featured one of the iconic Edgehill polar bears on an album cover). It's been several decades since he lived here, but I still claim him for the Music City Monday playlist.
"Reflection" by Josh Halper (from Alrightnik - 2020)
Next up, a lovely instrumental from songwriter, musician (Western Medication) and fellow WXNA DJ (aka Sweetbaby)
"Time Coast" by Robyn Hitchcock (from Robyn Hitchcock - 2017)
Robyn Hitchcock from his Nashville produced self-titled 21st studio album. The album, which is mostly psychedelic rock, features such local heavy-hitters as fellow WXNA DJ Anne McCue, Jon Radford, Jon Estes, Pat Sansone (Wilco, The Autumn Defense), Grant Lee Phillips (Grant Lee Buffalo), Emma Swift, and Gillian Welch.
"Famous to Me" by Justin & the Cosmics (from Perf - 2018)
Next up, a song that originally appeared on the 2015 album Schooly Days - here rerecorded live in the world famous Ardent Studios in Memphis. From the band led by Justin Collins.
"Perck" by Media Pig (from One - 2019)
And, we close with our second instrumental of the shuffle - this from the experimental project of guitarist Chris Tench. A great way to close out the shuffle.
VIDEO PLAYLIST
NEW AND RECENT RELEASES
THIS WEEK
5/01 - This Twisted Wreckage - EI8HT (LP)
5/04 - Skidders - Friends & Family (LP)
5/04 - Razorhouse - "Hobo Stomp" (single)
5/04 - John Howard - Collected - The Best of John Howard (LP)
5/06 - “+øc.” - Pandemønivm (LP)
5/07 - Manolo Redondo - The Lost and Found (EP)
5/07 - McCormick - "Till the Sun Comes Up" (single)
5/07 - Benjamin Jayne - Theater (LP)
5/07 - Peter Duff - "The To Do List" (single)
5/07 - Timothy and the Apocalypse - "You Oughta Love Me" (single)
5/07 - Teresa Guidry - "Paris" (single)
5/07 - The Purrs - We Thought There'd Be More People Here (LP)
5/07 - Leftover Salmon - Brand New Good Old Days (LP)
5/07 - Ted Russell Kamp - Solitaire (LP)
5/07 - Dolly Ave - Sleep (LP)
5/07 - Death Pop Radio - Death Pop Radio (LP)
5/07 - Geoff Westen - Random Acts of Music (LP)
5/07 - Tim Foljahn - I Dreamed a Dream (LP)
NEXT WEEK
5/13 - Middle Child - "Burn Out" (single)
5/14 - Soo Line Loons - Soo Line Loons (LP)
5/14 - Leo Crandall - "On the Way Back" (single)
5/14 - Nature's Neighbor - Otherside (LP)
5/14 - Mark Fry - Dreaming With Alice (reissue) (LP)
5/14 - Gasleben and Electric Friends - Spare Parts for the Offspring (LP)
5/14 - Delila Black - "Accountability" (single)
5/14 - Shay Martin Lovette - Scatter & Gather (LP)
5/14 - Eddie Turner - Change in Me (LP)
5/14 - Dope Sagittarius - Sacred Places (LP)
5/14 - Blue Panda - "What If I Were The One" (single)
5/14 - Pikefruit - Inflorescence (LP)
UPCOMING
5/18 - Ashleigh Flynn & the Riveters - Live From the Blue Moon (LP)
5/20 - Cathedral in Flames - Hang Me High and Bury Me Deep (LP)
5/21 - Moon - Shine (EP)
5/21 - Dawn-Song - For Morgan (LP)
5/21 - Sister John - I Am Day by Day (LP)
5/21 - Desert Hollow - Thirsty (LP)
5/21 - Rod Picott - Wood, Steel, Dust and Dreams (2LP)
5/21 - Hotel California - Orange (LP)
5/21 - Zebrah - Stripes (EP)
5/28 - Sharone - Morbid Illusion (LP)
5/28 - Toler Gibson - The Days Before (LP)
5/28 - Oui Plastique - "The Fear" (single)
5/28 - Fiona Brown - Mundane (LP)
5/28 - EB - The Parallel Sessions (EP)
5/28 - Shannon McNally - The Waylon Sessions (LP)
5/29 - The Contraptionists - Working Man's Dream (LP)
5/30 - Scott Standley - Victoria (LP)
6/04 - Lanterna - Hidden Drives (LP)
6/04 - Swift Silver - Swift Silver (LP)
6/04 - Jayson - "Body Work" (single)
6/04 - Annie Keating - Bristol County Tides (LP)
6/04 - Mary Hott with The Carpenter Ants - Devil in the Hills: Coal Country Reckoning (LP)
6/04 - My Name is Ian - Fantastic Company (LP)
6/04 - Pastel Ghost - Sun (LP)
6/11 - Soda Cracker Jesus - "Anthem" (single)
6/11 - Supermutt - Sinner's Boast (LP)
6/18 - Thomas Comerford - Introverts (LP)
6/18 - The Wind-Ups - Try Not to Think (LP)
6/18 - The Catenary Wire - Birling Gap (LP)
6/18 - Doctor Lo - Claiborne Avenue (LP)
6/19 - Willie Durisseau - Creole House Dance (EP)
6/21 - BOI - Coron O Chwin (LP)
6/25 - L.S. Underground - The Grape Prophet (LP - Reissue)
6/25 - Massage - Still Life (LP)
6/25 - Hilary Scott - Kaleidoscope (EP)
6/25 - Sir Orfeo - Millefleur (LP)
7/02 - Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow (LP)
7/04 - John PayCheck - We All Have a Story (LP)
7/09 - Leo Crandall - They're Cutting Up Betty's Dress Tonight and Other Hymns (LP)
7/09 - Ben Reddell Band - ¡LA Baby! (EP)
7/09 - Tylor & The Train Robbers - Non-Typical Find (LP)
7/12 - Steve Dawson -At The Bottom Of A Canyon In The Branches Of A Tree (LP)
7/16 - Blue Glass - Jardin des Étoiles (LP)
8/20 - Malcolm Holcomb - Tricks of the Trade (LP)
RECENT
4/01 - El No - Nothing is Possible (LP)
4/02 - indifferentMonKeY - "God or Machine?" (single)
4/02 - Tino and K. Carter - Safe Money (EP)
4/02 - Ritual Cloak - "High Teens Low Twenties" (single)
4/02 - Julez & The Rollerz - "Knocks Me On The Floor" (single)
4/02 - Elizabeth King - Living in the Last Days (LP)
4/02 - Dolour - Televangelist (LP)
4/02 - Smash Into Pieces - Wildest Dreams" (single)
4/02 - Yesterday's Gone - "(This is) Rock N Roll" (single)
4/02 - The Rocking Horse Winner - Horizon (cassette reissue)
4/02 - The Silver Devils - "Love Potion #10" (single)
4/08 - Cole Scheifele - "Back Then" (single)
4/09 - Dallas Moore - The Rain (LP)
4/09 - Storm Gordon - The Lie I Love the Best (LP)
4/09 - Cameron Alexander - "Sugar Bones" (single)
4/09 - Harri Larkin - "Tumbleweed" (single)
4/09 - Arden Lanes - A Little Something for Everyone (LP)
4/09 - Coke Belda - 5: A Tribute To The Bee Gees Vol. 2 (LP)
4/09 - Steven Faulkner - "Here's To The Down and Out" (single)
4/10 - Ali In the Jungle - "Fuel on the Fire" (single)
4/10 - Du Glas - "Edge of the World" (single)
4/12 - Sunlust - Geek Confessions (LP)
4/14 - Eddie Turner - "Dignify Me" (single)
4/15 - The Buzzards of Fuzz - "Lonely in Space" (single)
4/15 - MIHI NIHIL - MIHI NIHIL (LP)
4/16 - The Brother Brothers - Calla Lily (LP)
4/16 - Troy Bentley - Headlock (LP)
4/16 - Ventrelles - "Call of Morning" (single)
4/16 - Stephen Flatt - Cumberland Bones (LP)
4/16 - My Name is Ian (feat. HMS Morris) - "Where is the Time" (single)
4/16 - Sour Ops - X (LP)
4/16 - Conor Gains - Threë EP (EP)
4/16 - Nouhi's Nomad - "Number 4" (single)
4/16 - David Wax Museum - Euphoric Ouroboric (LP)
4/16 - Jim McCulloch - "Chorus of Lists" (single)
4/16 - Dawn-Song - "She Has Spoken" (single)
4/16 - Mass Experience - "So High" (single)
4/16 - Zebrah - "Hey Mama" (single)
4/16 - David Woodward - Butterfly Effect (EP)
4/16 - West of Texas - Hangovers & Honky Tonks (LP)
4/16 - Jon Flynn - Citrus (LP)
4/16 - Cole Quest and The City Pickers - Self (En)Titled (EP)
4/16 - John Louis - "Gone Too Far"/"Shut Down" (single)
4/20 - Cricketbows - Raised on Rock And Roll (LP)
4/20 - Tombstones In Their Eyes - Looking for a Light (LP)
4/20 - Sir Orfeo - "So Long" (single)
4/21 - Kid Hastings - "Off Guard" (single)
4/22 - Lou McMahon - "Pockets of Change" (single)
4/23 - DL Rossi - Lonesome Kind (LP)
4/23 - Certain Animals - "Hold On" (single)
4/23 - Your Academy - Your Academy (LP)
4/23 - Flowertown - Flowertown LP (LP)
4/23 - The Catenary Wires - "Mirrorball (single)
4/23 - Afton Wolfe - "Dirty Girl" (single)
4/23 - dontmesswithjuan - "Mutant Fur" (single)
4/23 - Summer Sleeves - In the Throes of Woes (LP)
4/23 - Gary Collocott - "Corrupt Young Mind" (single)
4/23 - The Magic Epic - "Sally" (single)
4/23 - Nick Nace - "Last Call" (single)
4/23 - Least - Folding My Hands, Accepting Defeat (EP)
4/29 - Caulbearers - "Burst Through the Borders" (single)
4/29 - Ernest Moon - "Big Wow" (single)
4/30 - Griffin Winton - "Blockbuster Blues" (single)
4/30 - Pikefruit - "Clockwork" (single)
4/30 - Hadda Be - Another Life (LP)
4/30 - Broken Links - Conflict::States (LP)
4/30 - BOI - "Cael Chdi Nol" (single)
4/30 - moshimoshi - moshimoshi I (EP)
4/30 - Dead By Design - Into the Night (LP)
4/30 - MILO - "What's the Matter?
4/30 - Calling Apollo - "Bitter" (single)
4/30 - Gerald Slevin - "It's Your World" (single)
4/30 - SYTE - "Up in the Air" (single)
4/30 - Lorraine Nash - "Sing With Her" (single)
4/30 - The New Black Diamonds - "Reload" (single)
4/30 - The Chickenbackers - Yeh Right, Yeah (LP)
4/30 - Nick Hudson - Font of Human Fractures (LP)
4/30 - The Legal Matters - Chapter Three (LP)
4/30 - Dan Rose - "The Opposite" (single)
4/30 - Climbing Trees - "Troubling Times" (single)
4/30 - Mode Shifter - "Doin' Fine" (single)
4/30 - KissDoomFate - "Sparkleblood" (single)
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