Music Adds February 19, 2021





(Left) The Mommyheads release their remastered album “Coming Into Beauty” which was their sophomore release in 1992.  (Right) Pale Waves release their album “Who Am I?”. The album is based on finding yourself and owning who you are. A self-journey that includes losing yourself, picking up the pieces, and putting it all back together again.  (Below) Lael Neale – No One For Now (Official Video)
 
 
 
 

 **** Highlights****
 Organ based tones and poetic lyrics: Lael Neale: Acquainted With The Night 
 An edgy blend of garage rock and punk: Hathors: Grief, Roses, and Gasoline
 A powerful female rock story about finding yourself: Pale Waves: Who Am I?
 First released in 1992 and recently remastered: The Mommyheads: Coming Into Beauty
 
 ****Notable Singles****
 Bark: Malady: Rock: Independent
 Blonde In Car: Never Be Cold: Indie Pop: Albatross 
 Ya Tseen: Close the Distance: Pop: Sub Pop
 Citizen: Blue Sunday: Alternative: Run for Cover
 Leon Vynehall: Mothra: Electronic: Ninja Tune
  
 ****Band/Album/Label/Genre****
 June Jones/Leafcutter/Remote Control/Pop
 Lee Moretti/Vanishing Acts [EP]/Mint 400/Alt-Rock
 Ben Rice/Future Pretend/Degraw Sound/Rock
 Quiet Canyons/Quiet Canyons/Trash Casual/Alternative
 Deap Vally/Digital Dream [Ep]/Cooking Vinyl/Rock
 Sports/Get a Good Look Pt 1/Naked-OneRPM/Pop
 Smith and Burrows/Only Smith & Burrows Is Good Enough/PIAS/Alt-Indie
 Sloping/completed songs/sound as language/Indie
 Cassandra Jenkins/An Overview on Phenomenal Nature/Ba Da Bing! Records/Indie Pop
 Lauren Auder/Five Songs For The Dysphoric/Harvest/Pop
 Veronica Swift/this bitter earth/Mack Avenue/Jazz-Jazz Vocal
 Rosier/Legerement/FAMGroup /Folk
 Applesauce Tears/Departure/Black Cottage Records/Psych Rock
 The Mommyheads/Coming Into Beauty/Independent/Alt Rock
 Alex Julia/Better Part of Me/Independent/Alt Rock
 Cameron Graves/Seven/Mack Avenue/Jazz
 Deep Rivers/Nothing Happens to Me/Independent/Indie
 Pale Waves/Who Am I?/Dirty Hit/Indie Rock
 Hathors/Grief, Roses, and Gasoline/Noisolution/Punk-Alt
 Jake Elijah/Little Errands/Earth Libaries/Alternative
 The Fleshtones/Face of the Screaming Werewolf/Yep Roc/Garage Rock
 Blessed /iii/Flemish Eye/Rock
 The Gold Needles/Whats Tomorrow Ever Done For You?/JEM/Rock
 Puma Blue/In Praise of Shadows/Blue Flower/ PIAS/Indie
 Small Sins/Volume II/Arts & Crafts/Indie
 Aerial East/Try Harder/Partisan Records/Indie
 Black Country, New Road/For the First Time/Ninja Tune/Alternative
 Ghalia Volt/One Woman Band/Ruf Records/Blues
 Trevor B Power/What Is Real/Farm 189 Records/Rock-Blues
 Doug Macdonald Duo/Toluca Lake Jazz/DMAC Music/Jazz
 Joe Chambers/Samba de Maracatu/Blue Note/Jazz
 Luke Concannon/Ecstatic Bird in the Burning/The Movement/Folk 

Music Adds February 12, 2021





(Left) Femi Kuti’s new album “Stop the Hate” is fresh afrobeat with lyrics full of energy and truth.  (Right) Ani Difranco used her personal and political frustrations to complete her newly released album “Revolutionary Love”.  (Below) Miley Cyrus – Fade Into You (cover) from the Tiny Desk “Home” Concert
 
 
 



 **** Highlights****
 Bold, honest, familiar Difranco sound: Ani Difranco: Revolutionary Love
 Smooth, chill, fresh beats: Wax Tailor: The Shadow of Their Suns
 Fresh new world afrobeat to get you moving: Femi Kuti: Stop the Hate
 
 ****Notable Singles****
 Sunny War: Lucid Lucy: Indie Folk
 The Bones of J.R. Jones: Bad Moves: Indie Rock
 Post Profit: When You Think It’s Right: Rock
 Julia Stone: We All Have: Pop
 Dry Cleaning: Strong Feelings: Alternative
  
 ****Band/Album/Label/Genre****
 Nancy/The Seven Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues/B3SCI/Trip-Psych Rock
 Lanks/Spirits PT 2/Independent/LoFi Electronic
 Kinlow/The Tipping Scale/Bayonet Records/Pop
 Django Django/Glowing in the Dark/Because Music/LoFi -Electronic
 The Staves/Good Woman/Nonesuch/Indie Pop
 Death by Unga Bunga/Heavy Male Insecurity/Jansen Records/Pop Punk
 Bodies of Water/Is This What It's Like/Thousand Tounges/Alt Rock
 45 Adapters/Now or Never [EP]/Pirates Press/Alt Rock - Punk
 Better Hand/Cheap Smokes and Champagne {EP}/Mutants League/Pop Punk
 Pilgrim /Neverland/Trajectory/Rock
 Baby Fuzz/Welcome to the Future/Blanket Fort/Pop
 Teenage Wrist/Earth is a Black Hole/Epitah/Alt Rock
 God is an Astronaut/Ghost Tapes #10/Napalm/Rock
 Hellos Cosmos/Dream Harder/Cosmic Glue/Rock
 Ani Difranco/Revolutionary Love/Righteous Babe Records/Alt-Rock
 Psychedelic Porn Crumpets/SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound/Marathon Artists/Alternative
 Tele Novella/Merlynn Belle/Kill Rock Stars/Pop
 Wild Pink/A Billion Little Lights/Royal Mountain/Indie
 Anna B Savage/A Common Turn /City Slang/Pop
 Brisa Roche & Fred Fortuny/Freeze Where U R/Art Breaker/Pop-Jazz
 Lavender Diamond/Now is the Time/Petaluma/Indie Pop
 Bronson /Bronson Remixes No 2/Ninja Tune/Electronic
 Made Kuti/For(e)ward/Partisan/World
 Femi Kuti/Stop the Hate/Partisan/World
 Sincere Gifts/Ghost of America/Independent/Alternative
 Mount Olympic/Platinum Hits/Independent/LoFi - Folk
 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah/New Fragility /CYHSY/Secretly Distribution/Indie Pop
 Katie Dey/urdata/Run for Cover/Pop
 Miss Grit/Imposter/Independent/Indie-Alt
 Sun June/Somehwere/Run for Cover/Alt Rock 
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Music Adds January 29, 2021





(Left) Widowspeak releases an amazing EP of covers. Take a minute to listen to their rendition of Romeo and Juliet.  (Right) Dale Crover, who was the drummer for The Melvins and Nirvana for a short time, releases his album Rat a Tat Tat! .  (Below) “Dog Eared” by Carla Geneve
 
 
 
 
 **** Highlights****
 Notable Grunge-Rock: Dale Crover: Rat a Tat Tat!
 Elegantly done covers: Widowspeak: Honeychurch
 Tunes for your next river trip: Buffalo Galaxy: New Escape
 An Indie dream: Still Corners: The Last Exit
 ****Band/Album/Label/Genre****
 Carla Geneve/**Single** Dog Eared/Remote Control Records/Alt-Rock
 Paging Doctor Moon/Lost My Body/Independent/Soul-jazz
 The Watters/Intuition/Independent/Soul-Rock
 Staci Griesbach/My Shania Twain Songbook/Independent/Jazz
 Amanda Tosoff/Earth Voices/Empress Music/Jazz
 Keli Holiday/**Single** We Don't Have to Know /Vitriol/Indie-Alt
 Tune-Yards/**Single** hold yourself/4AD/Indie - LoFi
 Blue Vervain/North Carolina/Mint400/Indie
 The Luka State/Fall In Fall Out/AntiFragile/Alt-Rock
 Lucero/When You Found Me/Liberty & Lament- Thirty Tigers/Indie-Alt
 Cheekface/Emphatically No. /New Professor/Indie-Rock
 Buffalo Galaxy/New Escape/Independent/Bluegrass
 Justin Moses/Fall Like Rain/Mountain Fever Records/Bluesgrass
 Joyann Parker/Out of the Dark/Independent/Blues
 Mayer Hawthorne/Rare Changes/Big Bucks/Soul
 James Houlahan/Ordinary Eye/Independent/Indie-Folk
 K. Michelle DuBois/The Fever Returns/Baby Robot Records/Alt-Rock
 Tunic/**Singles** Exhaling & Fade Out/Artoffact/Noise Rock-Punk
 Sloping/**Single** Raft/sound as language/Indie
 IKOQWE/**Single**PELE/Crammed Discs/Electronic-World
 Widowspeak/Honeychurch/Captured Tracks/Indie
 Faintlife/Faintlife/Independent/Rock
 Crooked Spires/Crooked Spires/Independent/Indie
 Dan the Man/Brightly Colored Creatures/Independent/Indie
 Fana Hues/Hues/Bright Antenna/R&B
 Rykard/Explorers Vol 3 EP/Hunya Munya/Chill-Electronic
 Dale Crover/Rat A tat Tat!/Joyful Noise/Alt-Rock
 Bill Jr Jr /Homebody/Bush League/Indie
 Logic1000/You've Got the Whole Night to Go/Therapy-Because Music/Electronic-Dance
 Anna B Savage/A Common Turn/City Slang/Indie
 Rhye/Home/Loma Vista /Electronic
 The Smoking Flowers/Patriocrisy [EP]/Bandaloop/Indie-Alt
 Cub Scout Bowling Pins/Heaven Beats Iowa/CGBV Inc/Indie
 Teen Creeps/Forever/PIAS/Alternative
 Blueox/Fearless [EP]/The Ski Team/Rock
 Joshua Lewis /Too Soft/Earth Libraries/Indie
 Kris Ulrich/Pacific Central/BIrthday Cake /Indie
 The Vaughns/Rom Coms & Take Out/Equal Vision/Indie
 Pom Poko/Cheater/Bella Union- PIAS/Alternative
 Still Corners/The Last Exit/Wrecking Light/Alt-Indie
 Cigarettes for Breakfast/Wait EP/Independent/Alt-Rock
 Burkharts/Who are the Burkharts? [EP]/Admirable Traits/Pop
 BPR/**Single**BPR Strut/Costume/Glam Disco
 Dittomaster/Sampler/Independent/Electronic
 Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger /Force Majeure/International Anthem/Instrumental
 Senor Kaos & Illastrate/Kings of Vice/Ultra Beast/Hip Hop 

Music Adds August 21, 2020





(Left): Jay-Way Drops his new EP, No, I’m Not Okay. “I hope for my music to not leave people in a place where they only feel like they can relate to it,” Jay-Way begins, “I want people to feel hope.” by DJbooth (Right):   Alicia Bognanno releases her third Bully album titled, Sugaregg.  (Below):  The official video for, “Legends Never Die” by Orville Peck & Shania Twain.



**** Highlights****
Amazing duet with Shania Twain on “Legends Never Die”: Orville Peck: Show Pony
Coming out of the dark spreading HOPE: Jay-Way: No, I’m Not Okay
Powerful Female Lyrics: Bully: Sugaregg
Because everyone needs a little grunge/surf punk in their life right now: 8 Inch Betsy: The Mean Days
Summertime vibes with roots and blues: Fantastic Negrito: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
 
Band/Album/Label/Genre
Fantastic Negrito/Have You Lost your Mind yet? /Blackball Universe-Cooking Vinyl/Roots-Blues
Orville Peck/Show Pony/Columbia/Alt-Country
Jay-Way/No, I'm Not Okay/Curb /Rap-Hip Hop
Bully/Sugaregg/Sub Pop /Alt-Indie-Punk
Daniel Blumberg/On&On/Mute/Indie
Oracle Sisters/Paris/22Twenty/Indie
Dots/Dust on the Stylus/Eargasmic/Electronic-House
Jonathan Something/Cannibal House Rules/Solitaire/Pop
8 Inch Betsy/The Mean Days/baby Robot Records/Surf Rock
No Joy/Birthmark/Hand Drawn Dracula-Joyful Noise/Electronic
Tommy Siegel/Another Century Wasted /Self Released/Indie
Dolly Valentine/How to Be Good/Self Released/Folk
Evangeline Gentle/Evangeline Gentle/Sonic Unyon/Folk-Indie
Hannah Georgas/All that Emotion/Brassland-Arts & crafts/Indie Pop
Shehehe/Pet Songs/Say-10/Punk
Selena Rosanbalm/Selena Rosanbalm/Self Released/Indie-Folk
Daniel Blumberg/On&On/Mute Records/Indie Rock
Zoe Says Go/Sensible Shoes/Immeasureable Music/Rock
The Radam Schwartz Organ Big Band/Message from Groove and GW /Arabesque Records/Big band Jazz
Billy Childs /Acceptance /Mack Avenue/Jazz
Harold Lopez-Nussa/Te Lo Dije/Mack Avenue/Latin Jazz-World
Xanthe Alexis/The Offering/Twin Vision/Indie
Girl Friday/Androgymous Mary/Sub Pop/Indie

Music Adds July 31st, 2020


(Left): NOFX & Frank Turner release their split cover album, West Coast vs Wessex.  (Right):  Skip Marley releases his newest single, “Make Me Feel” featuring Rick Ross & Ari Lennox. (Below): Alanis Morissette with, “Pedestal”. The new album, “Such Pretty Forks in the Road” dropped today!



**** Highlights****
Who sang it better? : NOFX & Frank Turner: West Coast vs Wessex
Bold, strong and empowering lyrics filled with SOUL: Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me
Press play and chill: Roy Ayers: JID 002
Songs to encourage self-love: St. South: Get Well Soon
Is this really happening? : Alanis Morissette: Such Pretty Forks in the Road

Band/Album/Label/Genre
Genevieve Artadi/ Dizzy Strange Summer /Brainfeeder /Pop                                                                                       
Lionel Boy/ Who is Dovey? /Innovative Leisure /Alternative                                                                                         
Roy Ayers /JID 002/ Jazz is Dead /Jazz                                                                                                                    
Time Thieves/ Space/ Anxious & Angry/ Alt Rock                                                                                                              
The Academics/Acting My Age /Universal/Indie Rock                                                                                                      
St. South/Get Well Soon/Nettwerk/ Indie                                                                                                                          
Denai Moore/Modern Dread/Because Music/Dance                                                                                                       
Treva Blomquist/Snakes & Saints/Treva Music/Pop folk                                                                                                 
Coldswell/Void Calls/Coldswell/Rock                                                                                                                                      
JD Taylor/The Coldwater Sessions/Vizztone/Blues                                                                                                            
Devon Worely Band/Teatime for Thieves/Self Released/Country                                                                                
Kandace Springs /The Women Who Raised Me/Blue Note/Jazz-Soul                                                                        
NOFX and Frank Turner/West Coast VS Wessex/Fat Wreck Chords/Punk                                                                
The Lucky Losers/Godless Land/Take No Prisoners /Jazzy Blues                                                                  
The Wildmans/The Wildmans/Trivianna/Folk-Bluegrass