new music friday / Friday 01-24-25
(New Music Friday Intro)
Happy Weekend – no need to check the calendar. It’s still winter. BUT – I do have some spring time news which circles the date of April 12th. (Post Malone cut) Record Store Day event organizers have announced Mr. Post Malone is the official 2025 Record Store Day Ambassador. (clip) Post hasn’t announced a special release for this year’s Record Store Day, but in the past he has released limited edition versions for that day. We shall se.
(Countdown Video)
New Music Friday:
- Sophomore album has been released from Teddy Swims – he’s going back to therapy (“Lose Control”) That’s “Lose Control” which is actually the big song off of his Rookie album, which helped him gain a Grammy nomination this year for Best New Artist (clip) First album was called: I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy. Second album is called: I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) – why ruin a good thing? (clip) Soul, country, alt-rock, you name it – that’s what you get from these albums from Teddy Swims. The song being pushed today is “Guilty” (song)
- FKA twigs has officially released her first album in six years – called EUSEXUA (You – Sex -ua like Joshua) (clip) Over 40 minutes of new music spread out over 11 songs. By the way, North West – the 11-year-old daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye raps in Japanese on track #8 called “Childlike Things” (clip) Yeah – I don’t know what that all means, but I thought it sounded pretty good. Let’s hear a little more but this time with FKA twigs (clip)
- For me personally, this album was on my radar for 2025 (clip) This is Benjamin Booker’s first album in 7 years and it’s called LOWER. (clip) Booker co-produced this album with Kenny Segal, who will join the singer on tour. I’ve been a fan of Booker’s past albums: Witness and his self titled debut album: Benjamin Booker which includes my favorite song from him: “Violent Shiver” (clip)
- Several quick hits of new music: Nessa Barrett has shared “DOES GOD CRY?” – which is one of six new songs that will be appearing on her upcoming AFTERCARE DELUXE album, arriving February 7th // Tate McRae released a new song about a “Sports Car” (clip) Is that a fish tank? (clip) I believe it is. I own a fish tank cleaning service – never seen that before. // Sexyy Red and Bruno Mars have shared a new song called “Fat Juicy & Wet.” Can we play any of that? (clip) And there you have it. We’re officially concluding the naughty part of the program. //
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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