new music friday / Friday 03-07-25
(New Music Friday Intro)
Spring isn’t even officially here yet, but my body – already getting those seasonal allergy symptoms creeping in. Can’t wait for all the allergy meds. Who’s coming up! Lady Gaga, Jason Isbell, Bob Mould, Star 99, and The Wrecks.
(Countdown Video)
New Music Friday:
- All kinds of musical fun with Lady Gaga’s 7th studio album – Mayhem (clip) I most definitely would eat an apple if offered by Lady Gaga. That’s the song being pushed today on Spotify “Garden of Eden” (clip) 14 songs in all including the megahit “Die With a Smile” with Bruno Mars (clip) Also, the Swifties are convinced that track #9 “How Bad Do U Want Me?” has Taylor Swift on background vocals and is in actuality a Taylor song (clip) I can hear what they’re hearing. I can’t pick on them, because I’m hearing things too in track #12 “The Beast” (clip) Did you catch that little tinkling sound? It reminded me of Genesis with Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (clip) Let’s play the beginning of “The Beast” again (clip) See? Maybe? Eh – it gave me a reason to play Genesis (clip)
- Jason Isbell hasn’t done a solo album in 10 years. But today, we’ve got one called Foxes in the Snow (clip) Sadly, this album has already been labeled by some as his divorce album – he filed in 2023. He doesn’t shy away with the lyrics that he sings. (Gravelweed clip) Let’s try and pick this back up. I am enjoying the sound of this entire album which is simply – just Jason and his guitar – a mahogany Martin 0 (oh) – 17 acoustic guitar from 1940. Listen to this part on the “Bury Me” song (clip)
- 64 Year Old Bob Mould began his musical career in the 80s as the guitarist and vocalist of the band Hüsker Dü (clip) Between then and now, he’s been musical busy, but today we’ve got his newest sound (clip) That’s the title track of the album “Here We Go Crazy.” 11 songs in all from Bob Mould. I talked about him the other day along with band, Star 99 (clip) They too dropped a new album called Gaman (gu – mon) – 10 songs in all. I’ve been enjoying track #1 “Kill” (clip)
- Several quick hits of new music: Car Seat Headrest are back with their first new album in five years: Arriving on May 2nd is a self-described rock opera called: The Scholars. The first song was released “Gethsemane” and it’s nearly an album in its itself. Alright – not really, but the song does clock in at 10 minutes and 51 seconds // The Wrecks released a single this past October. It was the 1st song off a 6-pack EP that will be arriving in its entirety on April 11th. Today, we get the 2nd track called “Speed”. I like how this one speeds up as it plays along – you’ll have to go to my Spotify playlist to hear this one for yourself – visit brentevans.net // With every 1st Friday of the month, we receive another new song from Emmaline. A reminder – this will be happening all year long. March’s new song from the always seductive jazz singer is called “Hollywood Fame” (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.
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! 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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