new music Friday / Friday 12-13-24
(Spotify Clip of The National)
My Spotify Artist of the Year. And – guess who has a new album out
(The National “Once Upon a Poolside”)
(New Music Friday)
Happy Weekend! Welcome to mid-December. 2025 is so close. You know what’s also close – “Cookies for Breakfast” week. (clip) I cannot believe that there is a song out there called “Cookies for Breakfast.” I will have it saved on my Spotify playlist.
(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 – British rockers: THE DARKNESS (clip) “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” was released back in September of 2003. BUT – this most recent September – the song hit number one on the iTunes Rock Chart – all because of two people singing along to it at the US Open (clip) Yup – Kansas City Chief Travis Kelce and his girlfriend (clip) Back to THE DARKNESS. The 1st release off their forthcoming eighth studio album: Dreams On Toast was released in the Fall (clip) I guess it’s still the Fall until next weekend. Today, we got release #2 called “I Hate Myself” (clip) The full album – Dreams On Toast arrives in March. By the way, there is a YouTube show called “Justin Hawkins Rides Again” – that’s the lead singer of THE DARKNESS – very entertaining and informative on the musical scene. I’ll provide links!
- Next – we’ve got Benjamin Booker (clip) That’s like the first 10 seconds of the song. I’m loving on that fuzzy guitar sound. Song is called “Same Kind of Lonely” (another clip) Little scary there in the video. The kid heard laughing is that of his daughter. Just prior to this scene, there’s a clip used from an actual school shooting.. Very serious stuff – when asked, Booker says he included this audio because those random moments of horror ‘happen in our lives, just out of nowhere.” I still like the song. (clip) FYI – this is Booker’s 3rd release from his first new album in 7 years, LOWER – arrives next month on January 24th. By the way, thank you to Josh Sharpe for his article with Broadway World – that’s where I got some of my info.
- (Tom Petty clip) “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” via Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers was released back in November of 1993. Today, Snoop Dogg has his own version (clip) Snoop’s song is called “Last Dance with Mary Jane” and is off his new album that’s all out in its glory today called: Missionary. (clip) That’s Sting rapping on the song “Another Part of Me.” A lot of special guests on this album: Jelly Roll, Method Man, 50 Cent, Eminem. Snoop Dogg has that pull. I don’t think it’s the T-Mobile commercials either. He’s just the man. //
- Several quick hits of new music: This guy has been off of my radar for awhile – and I was all over his first couple albums in the early 2000s. Ben Kweller has a new song out called “Optimystic” – the entire album called Cover The Mirrors drops next May // Dead Poet Society’s song “HURT” is off their album – FISSION – which was released earlier this year. By the way – that album is in my top 10 for 2024. That video is coming next week. Anyway – the song “HURT” was redone by the band along with the help of the three sisters from: The Warning // My Spotify Artist of the Year – The National – released a live album called Rome. It’s from when they performed there during their recent tour. 21 songs spread out over nearly 2 hours of music. I can’t wait. Need it on vinyl, Santa. // I’ve talked a lot about Myles Smith this past year. AND – I probably talked about this song “Nice To Meet You.” However, he redid it the some bells and called it the Mistletoe Version (clip)
Amazing how jingling bells can make one think of the holidays. I was looking for some of our bells to jingle, but I think we got rid of all of them because of our dogs.
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.
Josh Sharpe for his article with Broadway World
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 Beta Radio, Old Sea Brigade, 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:
“You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.” – by Matt Berninger – he sings songs for The National