new music friday / Friday 08-30-24

morning babble / Friday 08-30-24

Here’s an oldie but goodie debate – who do you like more – Oasis: (beginning bars of “Wonderwall”)

or Blur (begin bars of “Song 2”)

Again, it’s Oasis (clip) or Blur (clip) Let the debating commence!

(Morning Babble Intro)

Happy Labor Weekend – go squeeze out all the summer you can. I’m just gonna sit here and enjoy my Pumnkin Ale from Dogfish Head.

(“Live Forever” cut)

Big news in the music world dropped this past week. The Gallagher Brothers have kissed and made up, so they can get paid lots of money as they tour together as their former dynamic duo name of Oasis. Tour is next year – that’s a lot of time. What’s the first word of this song?

(“Live Forever” cut)

That’s right, maybe as in “maybe it will happen.” I think it will. So much money involved – how could it not. Personally, I want them to push iall the chips in and do another album. Until they do, I challenge Oasis to it by stating I believe Blur is still better because they keep making the albums. (“Countryhouse”)

(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!

• First up – have you heard of Aaron Bruno? (A-A-RON clip) How about AWOLNATION? (clip) That’s a classic from 2010 called “Sail”. I love that part about ADD (clip) But that’s old AWOLNATION. Today we have a whole bunch of new AWOLNATION (“Party People” clip) Like that song called “Party People” – 10 songs are all nicely packaged together under the title of The Phantom Five. (“I Am Happy” clip) 3 songs were previously released and that one there was definitely my favorite favorites called “I Am Happy” – guesting on the song is Del The Funky Homosapien who happens to do one of my favorite raps on the Gorillaz song “Clint Eastwood” (“Clint Eastwood” clip) Back to AWOLNATION and The Phantom Five – it’s a great listen from beginning to end. I’ve done it a couple times already. Song being pushed by AWOLNATION since a new video for it has been released is the song “Barbarian” (clip)

• Last August, we received our first taste of new Big Sean music within a trailer for the video game NBA 2K24 (“Precision” in NBA game) The song was officially released this past March as the lead single of his sixth studio album, Better Me Than You. (“Precision”) Via social media, Sean described this new album as being guided by four pillars represented by colors: PRESSURE (red), which leads to CLARITY (aqua blue), which gives FOCUS (green), and ultimately brings HAPPINESS (yellow gold). (“Yes” clip) Me too Sean. 21 songs, over an hour of new music – again the album is called Better Me Than You from Big Sean

• (“Born to Run” clip) Mondo Cozmo played that song when he recorded his guest DJ spot on E Street Radio – part of XM Satellite Radio. During his DJ role playing, he explained how he plays songs by Bruce Springsteen for the happiness and the sad. (“Feel Good” clip) That wasn’t a Bruce song there though, that was a throw back to 2022 by Mondo Cozmo himself and what his music does for me – “Feel Good” (another clip) Sorry. I’m playing old stuff and he’s got new stuff. I’ve been looking forward to this full album drop too ever since I heard the first release “Angels” (clip) Today, the Spotify and artist push appears to be towards the title track of the album – It’s Principle! (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music: Amy Allen released another new song called “to love me” – more importantly her new album comes out entirely next Friday. So much more on her – next Friday // Victoria Monet and Usher teamed up for a song – it’s called “SOS” which stands for Sex on Sight. Go enjoy – obviously it’s naughty. // Off of Sia’s most recent album – Reasonable Woman, there’s a song called “Immortal Queen” which guests Chaka Khan. Today – there’s a remix where they add Debbie Harry to the song. (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 A$AP Rocky, Fuller, 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:
“Never let your fear decide your fate.” – by Aaron Bruno (AWOLNATION)