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The Artist Speaks: SOJA

November 2, 2021 | By Admin

Music Director Crystal Bunch chats virtually with SOJA’s lead vocalist Jacob Hemphill. SOJA’s newly released Beauty in the Silence was the topic of the conversation. Also discussed was Jacob’s favorite tracks and how the covid pandemic affected the production of the album. 

 

KZMU Public Affairs · The Artist Speaks: SOJA

Music Adds February 19, 2021

February 19, 2021 | By Admin





(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

February 12, 2021 | By Admin





(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

January 29, 2021 | By Admin





(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 January 1, 2021

January 1, 2021 | By Admin


Paul McCartney releases his 18th studio album titled McCartney III. This album followed his album McCartney which was released in 1970 and McCartney II which was released in 1980. Though McCartney claims he had no intention to release an album this year he used his Covid self-quarantine time to work on unfinished projects which led to this release.
 (Left) Paul McCartney’s album cover for McCartney III.
(Below) Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Activate (Official Visualizer)
 

 **** Highlights****
 You cannot help but move to this album: Paul McCartney: McCartney III
 This is a perfect soundtrack for lake picnic: David Lanz: Water Sign


 ****Band/Album/Label/Genre****
 Robin Spielberg /Re-Inventions/playMountain Music/New Age- Instrumental
 David Lanz/Water Sign/Self Released/Solo Piano-New Age
 Mike Nicholson/**Single** Just Like You/Self Released/Folk/Indie
 Roland Roberts /All About the Timing/Self Released/Folk
 Roosevelt/**Single** Feels Right/City Slang/Electronic
 Eyedress & The simps/**Single** On Fye/Lex Records/Alt Rock
 Run the Jewel/ **Single**the ground below/Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG/Hip Hop
 Little Dragon & Moses Sumney/**Single** The Other Lover/Ninja Tune/Electronic
 Left of the Slash/Won/Self Released/Rock
 Paul McCartney/McCartney III/Capitol/Rock
 Gerald Smith/Where there's A Will/Quacker Records/Bluegrass
 Renee Reed/**Single** Until Tomorrow/Keeled Scales/Indie Folk
 Buck Meek/**Single** Roll Back Your Clocks/Keeled Scales/Indie Folk
 Buck Meek/**Single** Second Sight/Keeled Scales/Indie Folk
 Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy/**Single** Make Me Worry for You/Drag City/Alt/ Indie
 Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin/Flysiffu's/Lex Records/Hip Hop - Rap
 Luka Kuplowsky/Stardust/Mama Bird/Indie Folk
 Lushlife/**Single** Hessdalen Lights/Fortune Tellers/Hip Hop
 Avery Leigh's Night Palace/**Single** Into the Wake, Mystified/Self Released/Pop
 Rama Gu/The Garden/Self Released/Indie Pop
 Chubby and the Gang/Speed Kills/Partisan/Punk Rock
 Sumeau/This Is Not a Dream/Self Released/Pop

Music Adds August 7, 2020

August 7, 2020 | By Admin




(Left): Putumayo presents their release “Brazil”, which has been described as the sound of Brazil’s heartbeat.  (Right):  Washed Out releases “Purple Noon “, their first release since Mister Mellow in 2017. (Below):  Buffalo Rose with “Seven Nation Army/Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” [White Stripes / Eurythmics Cover]

**** Highlights****
A lyrical love story: Washed Out: Purple Moon
A fresh breath of air and culture: Putumayo Presents Brazil
Positive vibrations to pump up your mood :Rezin Tooth: Rezin Tooth
Jump aboard the Folk Express: Buffalo Rose: Borrowed and Blue Live Around One Microphone
 

Band/Album/Label/Genre
Fontaines D.C./A Hero's Death/Partisan Records/Rock    
The Lawrence Arms/Skeleton Coast /Epitah/Punk            
Bluechannel/Lookin' at Life Through Dirty Glasses/Mint 400/Punk            
Yalc123/Yalc Nitsua Mailliw/Very Jazzed /Pop     
Howling/Colure/Counter Records/Electronic       
Washed Out/Purple Noon/Sub Pop/Indie-Pop                  
Frank Basile Sam Dillion Quintet/2 Part Solution/Cellar Live Music/Jazz   
Brad Byrd/Into the Big Idea/Elusive Tiger/Rock  
Land of Talk/Indistinct Conversations/Saddle Creek/Alt Indie      
Putumayo/Brazil/Putumayo World Music/World              
Deborah Silver/I Got Ryhtym – SINGLE/Deborah Silver Entertainment/Swing-Jazz              
Zoe Xandra/TMI/Zoe Wood/Pop Rock   
Mary Chapin Carpenter/The Dirt and the Stars/Lambent Light Records/Country 
Jordana /Something to Say EP/Grand Jury/Indie Rock      
Buffalo Rose/Borrowed and Blue Live Around One Microphone/Misra/Bluegrass FOLK    
Rezin Tiooth/Rezin Tooth /Crossrythym/ Waxthematique/Reggae - World             
Dream Wife/So When You Gonna/Lucky Number/POP   
Howling/Colure/Counter Records/Electronic       
Video Age /Pleasure Line/Winspear/Pop              
Birdthrower/Birdthrower/Self Released/Folk Indie          
Jess Jocoy/Such a Long Way/Self Released/Twin Vision  
Of Good Nature /Everything Turns Gold/Good Nature Music Publishing/Reggae Rock       
Ella Blue/It Happens I Am A Singer of the Heart/Under the Underground Records /Rock  
Eleanor Underhill /Land of the Living/Self Released/Pop
Casely/Never Be Alone- SINGLE /Self Released/Electronic - Hip Hop