new music Friday / Friday 01-17-25
(New Music Friday Intro)
Happy Weekend – been witnessing a lot of snow around here. It can be fun until you have to drive somewhere. Pitchers and Catchers report February 12th. Can’t Wait. Also, can’t wait for New Music Friday w/ Jason Isbell, Lucy Dacus, Mac Miller, little image, and more.
(Countdown Video)
New Music Friday:
- A year and a half ago, we got the Weathervanes album from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (“King of Oklahoma” clip) Today, we’ve got just Jason doing his first solo album in 10 years called Foxes in the Snow – it’s due out on March 7th (“Bury Me” guitar clip) That’s the album’s first release, but did you hear that guitar? It’s a mahogany Martin 0 (oh) – 17 acoustic guitar from 1940. For the entire album, you get that guitar and Jason Isbell singing – and that’s it. Sounding good to me. Let’s hear a little more of “Bury Me” with Jason singing this time . (clip)
- Lucy Dacus is one third of boygenius (“Not Strong Enough” clip) And – she’s back – just her. Just like Jason – Lucy is doing the solo thing – first time since 2021. It will be her 4th solo album called Forever Is a Feeling – arrives March 28th. (“Ankles”) Little naughty there – song is called “Ankles”, but it’s her other release that made me go look up the meaning of “Limerence” (song clip) “Limerance” – read the definition. Forever Is a Feeling has 13 tracks and will include contributions from her Boygenius bandmates, Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker (clip)
- Last week, we experienced the first sounds of Mac Miller’s Balloonerism with “5 Dollar Pony Rides” (clip) On a personal note, balloons terrify me. In fact, if a clown would come walking towards me with those same balloons. (clip) Sorry – back to the guy from Pittsburgh – Mac Miller. We’ve got the whole Ballonerism album today and an animated short film which is available on Amazon Prime – I’ll provide a link (clip) “Funny Papers” is the song being pushed on Spotify and definitely one that I’ve been enjoying. 14 tracks in all – I’m still listening. Go enjoy some Ballonerism (clip)
- Several quick hits of new music: My Morning Jacket have announced a new album called Is. It’s due out March 21 – Is. Today though – you can hear the lead single “Time Waited,” // Perfume Genius released the lead single from the upcoming new album – Glory. Song is called “It’s a Mirror” and there’s a new video out where you can can the lead guy – Mike Hadreas – wearing a leather racing jacket, drinking some gasoline, and straddling a Harley // The band – little image – released an album back in May of 2023 that I listened to (clip) Today, they released the beginnings of another new album? We shall see. The song is called “The Pressure” (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.
A reminder – I have put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that!
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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