Author: Brent Evans

morning babble / Friday 01-19-24

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Black Pumas cut

“I saw the Black Pumas last night in Philly . . . so, they’re just a little bit on my mind.”

Black Pumas cut

Morning Babble Intro

Happy Snowy Weekend at least here in the NE. Lots of sledding . . . by the kids. From our deck, I can see the hill that the kids fly down. (clip)

So, if my son catches a cold, you all know why.

All good then. I can stay inside and fill up my Barry glass.

Back to my earlier comment of the Black Pumas and their show – amazing. (clip)

At the Filmore in Philadelphia / Got food and beverage prior to the show at Other Half Brewery – delish.

Black Pumas – Two guys – Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada (ka – sada)

Adrian – older dude – looks like Walter Matthau (ma – tau) (clip)

But damn, he can play the guitar. Didn’t Walter Matthau hook up with Sophia Loren one of those Grumpy Old Men Movies? (clip)

Eric Burton – what a breath of fresh air. Just glowed. Smiles all night. That voice.

Leather pants / Got my tight pants on (clip)

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!

• This is one of the albums that I’ve been waiting for in the new year (clip) Some people weren’t really looking forward to it, but I do love me some Green Day. The album is Saviors and we’ve gotten to taste it over the past couple months with 4 songs that they have shared from it. BUT – there’s 11 more and, if my math is real good, that’s 15 in all. Also, this past week, the band did a bit with late night guy – Jimmy Fallon – where they surprised people in a New York subway with one of their classics (clip) Again, that’s Saviors – I’ve already listened to it all and I’m going to do it again and again this weekend (Meg Ryan clip)

• Today, we received an acoustic live album from a band that I have multiple vinyl of and have seen several times in concert (clip) Band of Horses – this new album or volume has been 10 years in the making – it’s called Acoustic at The Ryman Vol. 2 because Volume 1 came out back in 2014. By the way, the Ryman Auditorium is one of the most iconic music stages located in Nashville, Tennessee on the edge of 5th Avenue North since its inception in 1881. Just about everyone has performed there, well not me, but important people and now Band of Horses have two volumes of albums to prove it (clip)

• Last year – all the way back 2 months ago in November – Dolly Parton released a 30-track album called Rockstar – all kinds of studs and studdettes on there. Sting, Joan Jett, Chris Stapleton, Miley Cyrus (clip). And now, the deluxe album of Rockstar is out where we get an additional 9 songs and one of those includes the band Maneskin singing with Dolly on her song “Jolene” (clip) I won’t lie. One of my favorite renditions of “Jolene” is with the incredible twosome of Jack White on Vocals & Guitar and Meg White on Drums – also known as The White Stripes (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music: One of my favorites to chill with – Mat Kearney – released “Headlights Home” – not sure of a whole album yet, so I won’t be greedy and simply take this single // Taylor Swift’s bud – Jack Antonoff – his band, Bleachers has a new song out – “Tiny Moves” – full album on March 8th // Nicki Minaj has a new song out called “Press Play” and features Future. Did we find a clip that we can play? Only Nicki – that works. (clip)

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.” – by Walter Matthau

morning babble / Wednesday 01-17-24

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.” – by Kurt Vonnegut

morning babble / Monday 01-15-24

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

Today’s quote was found in Ryan Holiday’s book:

Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control 

But – it was officially authored by Charlie Mackesy who wrote:

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Asking for help is not giving up, it is refusing to give up.” – via Charlie Mackesy

morning babble / Friday 01-12-24

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Paul Russell – Lil Boo Thing cut

“Not even half way through January and I’m playing that song and thinking of warmer weather. Is that really snow for Tuesday. I am so ready for June-uary. (off to the side) Does that even make sense?”

Paul Russell – Lil Boo Thing cut

Morning Babble Intro

New Music Friday:

Happy Weekend! Survived the first full workweek of the new year. How about them goals? Keeping the focus? I have to say I’m excited because I was able to add something to my morning routine arsenal to help me Win the Day.

To go along with my morning journal entry, I enjoy a good Daily Reading

The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel  – from Rolf Potts

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living  – from Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman

The Daily Pressfield – from Steven Pressfield

Let’s just jump into it and go (running man clip) 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!

• This first one I’m really psyched on because I had no idea that they were coming out with something new. The Black Keys (Loney Boy) – that’s not the new song, that was “Lonley Boy”. BUT – coming out on April 5th is Ohio Players – the duo’s first full-length album since 2022’s Dropout Boogie. Now, the first song was actually co-written by Beck (Two Turntables) I don’t believe Beck is actually on this song, but simply helped scribble it out. However, if rumor has it, Beck does appear on another track along with rapper Juicy J. We don’t get that one today. The one we do get is “Beautiful People (Stay High)” (clip)

• An album that I did know was arriving this year in 2024 was Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations by The Vaccines. We’ve already gotten several songs from the album last year – like 4. Don’t worry – there’s another six to enjoy. I’ve listened to them and my ears perked up to “Another Nightmare.” (clip) However, the one that Spotify is highlighting and the band came out for another video for is “Discount De Kooning” (clip)

• Judah & the Lion made the announcement of their new album: The Process coming out in its entirety on May 10th. This is the band’s fifth full-length effort and the follow-up to 2022’s Revival. Posted on Instagram (clip) the band stated “One of our most difficult records to write as we aired out our struggles with grieving. You’re not alone, and we hope this record helps you feel that.” Here’s a clip of the released new track, “Is What It Is” (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music: Missed this one last week – Liam Gallagher and Stone Roses guitarist John Squire are doing a little project together and shared a new song – “Just Another Rainbow” // Another one missed – Alkaline Trio with “Versions of You” – full album Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs arrives January 26th // The song “Hey” from Aura Davis comes along with a new video too. That sofa looks like the place to hang out (clip) // 21 Savage – new album is out: American Dream // Lil Nas X surprised us with a new song and video called “J Christ” – that’s right, singing about JC – wasn’t he a Backstreet Boy? // Via Rolling Stone, I saw that Suki Waterhouse was channeling France’s greatest & most popular singers Edith (eh deet) Piaf in the video for her new song “OMG” (clip)

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

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I’m sorry – I know this Quote of the Day is a repeat from last year at some point, but I’m using it in my journal

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.” – by Beck

morning babble / Thursday 01-11-24

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

HAPPY FRIDAY EVE!

Go get that Chase Jarvis book – click here!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The rising tide lifts all the boats.” – JFK – John F. Kennedy / Although, I always hear my guy – Chase Jarvis saying this phrase

morning babble / Tuesday 01-09-24

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Extraordinary results are a matter of repeating ordinary actions over a long period of time. Start with ordinary..” – by Mark Manson

morning babble / Sunday 01-07-24

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

How are those New Year’s Resolutions coming? Read this to help it Keep Going!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I paint with my back to the world.” – by Agnes Martin

morning babble / Friday 01-05-24

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Pink Cut of “So What”

Happy New Year?

Pink Cut of “So What”

Morning Babble Intro

Yes – Happy First Weekend of 2024 and I guess one final Happy 2024 and that’s it out of me for new year’s wishes. (Larry David drop)

I opened the Babble today with Pink and her song “So What”. I heard some new music today which triggered that song in my head . . . I’ll get to it shortly.

It took me several hours to click-click-click through the files in my head to figure out what song it was making me think of. Initially, I thought it was The Pretty Reckless (clip) Kept going through song after song of them. By the way, Taylor Momsen is the lead singer of that band but she is also known for playing Cindy Lou Who with Jim Carrey in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. (clip) I just have to say. I loved her Instagram posts around the holidays. She fully embraced having done that role and put out some really fun holiday posts. She’s a rocker and it was nice to see that. I then pivoted (clip) to Kesha. I played a lot of Kesha (clip) – I really thought it was Kesha (clip) It wasn’t Kesha. But then – click, click, click – it happened – PINK! (clip) I’ll get to that in a bit.

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New Music Friday:

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• First up – remember the song “Laid”, remembering getting laid? Alright this is awkward – play the clip (James – “Laid”). From 1993, that’s “Laid” by the band: James. Today, from the band July Talk we get a cover of the song (clip – girl singing) I’m not all that familiar with the band and I liked the girl’s voice, but then (clip – guy singing) I wasn’t ready for that transition. I wasn’t. I liked it though. This is actually part of a 5 song EP that they released in late December, but it popped up – Laid – on my Spotify Release Radar list today, so I wanted to pass it along. Being good is not one of my new year’s resolutions (clip)

• Couple hip-hop songs got my attention. This first one I really connected with (clip) Alright, maybe not that part, but I did eventually connect and thoroughly enjoyed that one – which was “Good Intentions” from 24kGoldn (clip). More hip-hop – on New Year’s Day, The Game and Big Hit teamed up along with producer Hit-Boy for a new album: Paisley Dreams. The song that I heard and enjoyed was “P-Fiction” (clip)

• Green Day – new album “Saviors” drops on January 19th – thats their 14th studio album – that’s also known as – a lot. For the time being, the boys did give us another song to enjoy (clip) That’s called “One Eyed Bastard” and that’s the song that made me think of the PINK song “So What” – it was the very beginning of it. We’ll do the back & forth thing. This is Green Day (clip) this is PINK (clip) again, Green Day (clip) and PINK (clip). Do you think they got that? //

• Several quick hits of new music: Playboi Carti has released a new song with Travis Scott called “Backr00ms,” alongside a music video which features Carti showering a dancer with money. Go Google that one // The Boston Trio – Pile – released a 5 song EP called Hot Air Ballon. Couple months ago – one of the songs was released with a video called “The Birds Attacked My Hot Air Balloon.” I’m going to go a little deeper on these guys. // And lastly, if you’re in Philly, it’s David Bowie week. All my years of being in the area and being in radio, unfortunately, I had never heard of Bowie week in Philly. I learned about it while reading the article from Dan Deluca of the Philly inquirer. I’ll link the story – click here (clip)

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

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Not the Quote of the Day: “I will never return to the music industry.” – Britney Spears

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.” – P!nk

morning babble / Thursday 01-04-24

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different.  That’s your source of power.” – Robert Greene

morning babble / Tuesday 01-03-24

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

Happy 2024! Still?

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A willingness to begin again is the key to freedom.” – Sam Harris