Welcome to Music That Matters with 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday.
This week, we’ve got Phoebe Bridgers back – that’s big, then Jungle bringing the sunshine to the summer, and holding down the 3rd spot is an album that I was looking forward to hearing: Judah & The Lion
Plus, Troye Sivan goes full movie-star mode, Royal Blood gives us a ten out of ten, and Run-DMC raises a little hell on vinyl.
(Countdown Video)
3 major album drops.
First up — we have the Phoebe Bridgers album: Lost Weekend, her first solo album in six years.
(“Lost Boys” clip)
After Punisher, after boygenius, after becoming one of the defining voices in indie music, Phoebe is doing her own thing again and the emotional sounds you hear and feel on this album are completely Phoebe Bridgers
(“I Can’t Wait” clip)
After Phoebe’s emotional lane, Jungle gives us the groove-based summer release.
(“Sunshine”)
That’s the title track for the album – Sunshine. Summer isn’t over yet and this album proves just that.
For the third album, we’re going to one that I circled the date for.
(“Maybe The Best Is Now”)
Yes, I realize that there are new records out from Carly Simon, Marilyn Manson, The Script, and more. But I wanted to make sure that you got to enjoy some Judah & The Lion and their newest album – I Am a Prism.
(“Powerless”)
2 new singles.
Troye Sivan is here again with “She’s the Best”
(“She’s the Best” clip)
… and the video goes full movie-star mode — right in the middle of the fantasy is Nicole Kidman – she is the best – a ten some might say. And speaking of tens.
(“Ten Over Ten” clip)
Royal Blood’s “Ten Over Ten” brings the rock I needed for the week. Full album drop this November – that’s like turkey time – must be patient.
(Record Scratch video)
Run-DMC’s Raising Hell is back on vinyl.
(“Its Tricky” clip)
Produced by Russell Simmons and a 23-year-old Rick Rubin, this is the album that shoved hip-hop into the middle of pop culture.
And then, of course, there’s the song that kicked down the wall between rap and rock.
(“Walk This Way” clip)
That’s your 3 albums, 2 singles, and 1 vinyl for the week.
This has been 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday
Until next time.
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By the summer of 1991… one of alternative radio’s biggest songs of the year… was in a serious “Rush.”
(Music Cut #2)
Big Audio Dynamite II made “Rush” sound like a rock song…
a dance track…
and a hip-hop record…
all happening at the same time.
(Music Cut #3)
The song was stitched together with pieces of The Who, Deep Purple, the Sugarhill Gang, and more…
So basically… it was a musical Frankenstein.
(Music Cut #4)
LYRIC OF THE DAY: “All the chances that I’ve blown And the times that I’ve been down I didn’t get too high Kept my feet on the ground.” – Big Audio Dynamite II
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It started with three dudes: Butch Vig, Steve Marker, and Duke Erikson.
They were studio guys in Madison, Wisconsin, just making weird noise experiments.
(Music Cut #3 – “Stupid Girl”)
But they still needed a voice.
And they found it because MTV played one video at exactly the right time.
Steve Marker saw Shirley Manson singing with Angelfish on 120 Minutes.
That one random TV moment helped turn a studio experiment into Garbage.
(Music Cut #4 – “Stupid Girl”)
LYRIC OF THE DAY: “You wanna hear about my new obsession? I’m riding high upon a deep depression I’m only happy when it rains.” – Garbage “Only Happy When It Rains”
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Blur entered one of the biggest battles in Britpop history…
with this song: “Country House.”
(Music Cut #2)
Blur and Oasis released new singles on the same exact day…
turning the British charts into a full-blown showdown.
(Music Cut #3)
Blur won the battle.
“Country House” outsold the Oasis release of “Roll With It.”
To be fair…
Oasis might have lost the week…
but they ended up doing pretty okay down the road.
(Music Cut #4)
I like them both, but I’m a bigger Blur fan.
LYRIC OF THE DAY: “Touched with his own mortality He’s reading Balzac and knocking back Prozac It’s a helping hand that makes you feel wonderfully bland.” – Blur
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Welcome to Movies That Matter, where we look at three movies worth knowing about before the weekend begins.
Anne Hathaway’s entire neighborhood has disappeared, PAW Patrol is apparently fighting dinosaurs now, and somehow Wet Hot American Summer is 25 years old.
(Countdown Video)
What’s new? And – a whole lot scary – The End of Oak Street stars Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. The premise: an entire suburban street is suddenly ripped from Earth and transported somewhere unknown.
(The End of Oak Street cut – with a dinosaur)
Looking like Jurassic Park just moved into the neighborhood there. Speaking of dinosaurs…
(PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie cut)
Ahhhh – that’s more up my alley.
The pups are back, this time landing on a dinosaur island, meeting Rex, and – since dinosaurs weren’t enough – they are dealing with a volcano.
It’s PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie
(Another PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie clip)
And finally, we have a movie returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary – Wet Hot American Summer
(Wet Hot American Summer cut)
Watching it now, the cast looks absolutely ridiculous: Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Molly Shannon, Michael Ian Black, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, … that’s a lot.
(another Wet Hot American Summer cut)
That’s this weekend’s Movies That Matter. From disappearing neighborhoods to dinosaurs to summer camp nostalgia, there should be something waiting for you at the movies.
Until next time – keep on popping the corn.
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