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Today is Friday, and that means it is time for a brand new and all new Featured Friday Playlist of New and Recent Releases. Remember you can follow, the E2TG Featured Friday Playlist on Spotify.
So, I have been trying to figure what exactly I want to do with this space of the blog - besides my observations on contemporary life. On Friday, I try to write about the songs in the Featured Friday Playlist, but it is hard to get to them all on Friday - so I thought why not spread that out over the week. For today, I will be providing some info and reflections on the first six songs in the list down below because we don't do a regular shuffle on Friday and then I will cover the rest up here throughout next week.
Right now, I want to highlight a couple of recent releases that aren't on Spotify (yet or at all).
We met Ugggy has a member of Valued Customer who were early favorites of E2TG and eventually were named Band of the Year. A few years back, Ugggy released new music every month for a whole year and in the midst of that, we named him our Artist of the Year. Since that onslaught, he has been quite in terms of releasing music, but he has been busy making really interesting art. A month or so back, he released a stunning new song, and I wanted to highlight it here.
Very few artists can be credited with creating genres of music. I have no idea if that is true, but it seems like it might be. A few years ago, E2TG became aware of The Electric Grandmother who invented the Sit-Com Core genre. Their early albums referenced and were based upon classic sit-coms. It is kind of an obsession (not be judgmental here) of the bands principal members Pete and Mary Alice. We featured their non-sit-com album Cancelled a couple of years ago. That was a concept album about a man whose favorite t.v. cop show was cancelled. They are back now with yet another concept album Relaunch - which involves Ronald Reagan, the Space Shuttle, and more. I can guarantee you that The Electric Grandmother is like nothing you have ever heard.
Now, given a listen to the Featured Friday Playlist and scroll down to below the jump for the first six songs in the playlist.
Featured Friday Playlist
