morning babble / Friday 07-26-24
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(“Sidecar”)
That is a new song. Just heard it today. Loving it already.
(“Sidecar”)
(Morning Babble Intro)
Happy Weekend – welcome to New Music Friday. We’ll get to that new song shortly. First – let’s talk about . . . who am I kidding
(Countdown Video)
New Music Friday:
I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that!
- Batting lead off, Vegas rapper, Big B just dropped Wellness Check, his first album since pandemic times (“Time” cut) Back in 2013, I enjoyed The Dirty Heads as they sang with Big B on their song “”Hangovers With You” (clip) Another band that has a similar sound to The Dirty Heads can be heard on this album’s cut which I also played at the very beginning (clip) Guesting on the song is G. Love and the Special Sauce along with Peachole. Their song is called “Sidecar” – loving it. (cut of “Pretend”) Now that is today’s Spotify song push which is called “Pretend” & is another duet for Big B who is joined by a favorite of mine, Killer Mike
- (“Hodgepodge” meaning) Grace Bowers has a band and its called The Hodge Podge (clip) ‘Tell Me Why U Do That’ was the first release off the group’s upcoming album called Wine On Venus which arrives fully on August 9th – so close (“Wine on Venus”) Today, we received the 3rd release of the album and its called “Dance to the Music.” (clip)
- Ice Spice has released her Y2K album – don’t blink though – it’s 10 songs spread out over about 23 minutes – as my wife stated – that’s an album-ette. (“Phat Butt”) Don’t worry – there’s more. I didn’t play the whole thing. By the way, it’s called Y2K because January 1st 2000, the date of Y2K is her birthday. Today’s push from Spotify is her duet with Travis Scott called “Oh Shhhh” (clip)
- It’s official. Amy Shark has completed the blink-182 Collaboration Trifecta. On her first album, she got Mark Hoppus to sing along with her “Pyscho” song (cut) Shark’s sophomore album included blink’s little drummer boy, Travis Barker, on the her song “C’Mon” (cut) So, could she do it. Get Mr. Tom DeLonge to join in on a song? I already told you, so this now lacks suspence. I do like their song together though. It’s called “My Only Friend” (cut)
- Several quick hits of new music: The Pixies have announced their first album with new bassist Emma Richardson. Due out in October 25th is The Night the Zombies Came. I like the name of the new single released: “Chicken” // JD McPherson released a 2nd track off his Nite Owls album which will becomes available on September 27th. The song is called “Shining Like Gold” // Just in time for the Olympics because well it’s tagged the Official Olympic song is the one from Gwen Stefani and Anderson .Paak – this is “Hello World” (clip)
Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Spill Magazine, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.
Be sure to check out the playlist on Spotify. As I mentioned in the beginning, it’s a playlist of songs that I’ve talked about and thought about: so, you’ll see some new music there from Jane’s Addiction, Jelly Roll with mgk, and anything that I really messed up and missed – well, that’s why I’ll be doing Missed Music Monday on Monday.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“It’s wonderful to get lost and “escape” into the things you love and important to find time to do so.” – by G. Love – click here for the interview I pulled it from