Sometimes, it gets tidied up; other times, not so much.
When all else fails: there’s video!
(“All Mixed Up”)
I remember my GSM in radio asking me if I was interested in tickets to see this band called Three Hundred and Eleven? Yes, yes, I am.
(Missed Music Monday opener)
I saw 311 back in 96 and I’ve been a fan ever since.
(“Good Feeling”)
Great song there from 2019 “Good Feeling” – I run to it so much. But today, 311 have a new album – called Full Bloom – out. Totally missed.
(“You’re Gonna Get It”)
The album’s lead single, “You’re Gonna Get It,” marks their highest-charting hit in 13 years. I want you to check out track #5 “Mountain Top” – that one’s good. Still listening – 10 tracks in all. Give it a taste for yourself.
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Sometimes, it gets tidied up; other times, not so much.
When all else fails: there’s video!
(Happy Birthday Song)
Guess who just turned 20 – not me, that’s impossible – but this album did
(“American Idiot”)
(Morning Babble Intro)
Happy Weekend – next Friday – it’s November. Before you know it, we’ll be seeing Tom the Turkey (clip) Leading off every Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – Tom the Turkey. Someone actually wrote a song about that turkey (clip) That is so uncomfortable. I’m going to shift this conversation back to other music. (Holiday clip) Ahhhhh – Green Day. That’s their seventh studio album – American Idiot – which was originally released back in September of 2004 (“Wake Me Up When September Ends”) So that’s 20 September endings. The deluxe vinyl box basically costs $200 but it features the eight LPs pressed on different color vinyl, plus a 36-page book, a large Green Day flag, and the iconic American Idiot red tie.
(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!
1st up – she played Harley Quinn (“Bad Romance” clip) After the release of Harlequin, the companion album to the Joker sequel, we do have even more music from Lady Gaga (“Disease” clip) I’m enjoying the beats and the grungy guitar sounds coming from that song called “Disease.” (another clip) It’s officially the lead single off of her upcoming album due out in February of 2025 – it’s known amongst her fans and Gaga herself as LG7.
(“Sidecar” clip) Back at the end of July, Big B released his album – Wellness Check (Jim Carrey clip) It was good. On that album was a song done with Killer Mike who I’m a big fan of – ‘Loud-mouthed chubby kid, confident as can be / I like BB guns, go-karts, and RUN DMC.’ Just saying it, not rapping it. (“Pretend” clip) There’s an updated version of “Pretend” – this time around – it’s still has Big B & Killer Mike, but now it also has the added sound of Jakob Nowell and Little Stranger. (another “Pretend” clip)
After a year and a half of thinking, writing and recording, Soccer Mommy has given us her 4th studio album – Evergreen (“Lost” cut) That was the first release from early Summer and it’s track #1 on this album called “Lost”. Ironically enough, it was also the last song she wrote for the record. (“Abigail”) Today, the single being highlighted is “Abigail.” 11 songs in all to enjoy from Sophia Regina Allison aka Soccer Mommy.
(“Dreams” Fleetwood Mac) Halsey has a new album out but that wasn’t it. That was Fleetwood Mac. Here’s Halsey (“Panic Attack”) This is all done on purpose. Transcending the sound of the 70s, that song is “Panic Attack” and the one being pushed on Spotify right now. But – Halsey has confirmed that this new album will travel over different decades and musical styles (“Ego” clip) And that’s the 90s with the song “Ego” – there are 18 songs in all which adds up to over an hour of new music – album is called The Great Impersonator. You even get a song like “Hometown” with a country feel. She did pose as Dolly to promote it though. (clip)
Several quick hits of new music: Cold War Kids went into the studio on September 30th. Today you can go hear that new song called “Meditations.” That’s less than a month – that’s pretty good turnaround // The Pixies have a new album. By the way, they are also sporting a new line-up that includes bassist and back-up singer, Emma Richardson, formerly of Band of Skulls. New album is called The Night the Zombies Came // The National have released even more songs off their upcoming live album called Rome aka an ideal vinyl Christmas gift for Brent (kid looking) That album comes out December 13th. Speaking of Christmas // More holiday music. Ben Folds (clip) Yeah, that Ben Folds has a full blown Christmas album out called Sleigher. 10 tracks in all – 7 original holiday songs and 3 covers. Here’s one of those covers from Burt Bacharach: “The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle” (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.
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 Linkin Park, Black Pumas, Tyler the Creator, 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: “The day you become old is the day you’re not looking for new experiences anymore.” – by Billie Joe Armstrong
Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range. Hey – go click that video!
(Tech N9ne with “Face Off”)
Happy Friday Eve!
That’s a Tech N9ne song called “Face Off”
But – it was a rap verse via ‘The Rock’ that made it go viral in 2021 on TikTok
(Tech N9ne with “Face Off”)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – by Dwayne Johnson via Dan Go newsletter
Sometimes, it gets tidied up; other times, not so much.
When all else fails: there’s video!
(“Man in the Box”)
From the late 1900s, Classical Grunge from one of the pioneers of that genre
One of those dudes released a new album this past Friday
(Missed Music Monday opener)
The most recent Alice in Chains album was released in 2018. Since then, one of the band’s founders – Jerry Cantrell has issued two of his solo albums – a “cheery” Brighten album in 2021 and today we have his 4th overall and a darker one called – I Want Blood
(clip)
A whole lot of classic rock guitar harmonies happening on this album. Some songs to listen for? I like how the album kicks off with “Vilified” as well as “Held Your Tongue”. The song “Echoes of Laughter” has a definite grungy sound to it. Check it out for yourself – Jerry Cantrell does NOT disappoint.
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Sometimes, it gets tidied up; other times, not so much.
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(“How To Hide A Body” clip)
Was that blood on the car? That was blood, right?
(“How To Hide A Body” clip)
(Morning Babble Intro)
Happy Mid-October Weekend. It’s going to be Turkey Day before you know it. (Snoopy clip) Does anyone else find it disturbing how excited Woodstock got about a cooked Turkey (quick clip) Mmmm – eat me some turkey – chill out there Woodstock. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – FYI – If you are interested in the vinyl soundtrack, it’s been available for like a year now. It’s also on all the digital platforms too.
(“Weekend at Bernies” clip)
That’s right – I need to talk about that song from the very beginning from Daisy Grenade (“How To Hide A Body” clip) Called “How To Hide A Body” – I actually googled that initially – probably not the best idea – we’ll see if I’m still here for Missed Music Monday. Anyway, I actually talked about this band last month when they covered the song “Polly” (clip) As I said back then, that’s actually one of my all-time favorites from Nirvana.
(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!
1st up – we haven’t gotten an album out of this guy in 7 years (“Witness” clip) Benjamin Booker. I’m excited about this one for many reasons. For one – I loved his 1st album from 10 years ago (“Violent Shiver” clip) So much so, I put it on my vinyl wish list. Totally forgot about it. I’m sorry – I’m totally geeking on this. Coming for you, Rainbow. That’s my place in Newark, DE that I get my vinyl – Rainbow Records – always support local. Let’s play his new song (clip) “LWA in the Trailer Park” is the first release from Benjamin Booker. Album is called – Lower – and will fully drop next year on January 24th
(“APT” clip) That’s catchy with a good hook. And the title of the song – “APT” – is a reference to a Korean drinking activity known as the apartment game. (“APT” clip) Bruno Mars apparently played that game with Rosé of BLACKPINK and she then tried to kiss him – That sounds like a fun game to play. (“APT” clip) Rosé is opening up the next chapter of her life as a solo artist, but she did do this song as a duet with Bruno. It will be a part of her album that comes out on December 6th – 12 tracks and called Rosie
(“Shadows” clip) Over each of the summertime months – that would be 3 – we received a song from Bryce Fox (“Butterfly”) Today, he packaged those songs up with 2 others for an EP called – The Butterfly (“Other People”) That’s the song being pushed on Spotify and it’s called “Other People.” So far, I’m still thinking that my favorite from Bryce Fox is “Drip” (clip)
Several quick hits of new music: Final album from the Japandroids was released. Total of 10 songs in all – several of which we got to experience over the past couple months. But – this is it for them – no more albums – go enjoy the Japandroids last one – I guess it’s not Swan Song, but Swan Album: Fate & Alcohol // Talked about this on Tuesday (New Music Tuesday) “She Cleans Up” by Father John Misty – the whole album arrives next month on the 22nd. // Tyler, the Creator has confirmed that he’ll release a new album called Chromakopia. Will it arrive next year? No – it’s actually less than 2 weeks away – Monday, October 28th. Great – now I’m gonna have to make a New Music Monday card / Ho, Ho, Ho/ That’s your Holiday Music warning – new vinyl opportunity for a release that actually came out back in 2014 – Barenaked for the Holidays – that’s sounds like fun for everybody – who doesn’t want some Barenaked Ladies under the Christmas tree – tell Nana that’s the name of the band (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.
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 Fiona Apple, Panda Bear, 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: “Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.” – by Kurt Cobain
Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range. Hey – go click that video!
(“She Cleans Up”)
I had something already written and planned out for today. Then, I woke up and it was like – New Music Friday, but instead New Music Tuesday
(“She Cleans Up”)
Back in the old days – Tuesdays were the new music days. That song is called “She Cleans Up” from Father John Misty. His 3rd release off his upcoming album – Mahashmashana. Yeah, I didn’t practice that.
(Mahashmashana pronounced)
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “You can choose to live in love or choose to live in fear.” – by Josh Tillman aka Father John Misty
Sometimes, it gets tidied up; other times, not so much.
When all else fails: there’s video!
(“Pretty Fly” clip)
This past Friday, punk rockers – The Offspring – released their 11th album – I missed it.
(Missed Music Monday opener)
The Offspring are from Huntington Beach, California and back in 1994 hit it big with their first album – Smash
(“Self Esteem” clip)
But that’s old news. This new 11th album is called Supercharged. I was all in on the 1st song release “Make It All Right”
(“Make It All Right” clip)
Still digging into some more and you should too. Tip – “Okay, But This Is The Last Time” – hints of blink-182 and “Come To Brazil” has an intro that made me think Metallica.
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Sometimes, it gets tidied up; other times, not so much.
When all else fails: there’s video!
(“Zoot Suit Riot” – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies)
Sometimes I flip through my CD collection for ideas – “Zoot Suit Riot” was released October of ’97
(“Zoot Suit Riot” – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies)
(Morning Babble Intro)
Happy Weekend! And yes – I just want to acknowledge that my Red October is over – BUT it being October, it’s probably more ideal to go with an orange theme, right? Go Flyers! (“Hell”) That’s right – back to music – in particular that ska swing sound. Remember – Squirrel Nut Zippers – so good. I was talking about Cherry Poppin’ Daddies with their “Zoot Suit Riot” song (clip) 27 years old. It was popular right after the movie Swingers hit it big (drop) I know I played that last week. Vince Vaughn was simply amazing in Swingers (drop) Looking up Cherry Poppin’ Daddies – I learned that their twelfth album – At the Pink Rat – was released in July of this year (clip) Totally Missed It – could have been a MMM.
(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!
One of my favorites – St. Vincent has released a new song – sort of (clip) That’s “Pulga” a Spanish language version of her track ‘Flea’ (clip) Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent , was inspired performing for Spanish-speaking audiences and recalled experiencing her set at Primavera Sound 2023. “At the end, she asked herself, ‘If they’re able to sing in a second or third language, why can’t I do the same thing?’” (Hombre Roto) She is so good. That was actually the 1st single – the Spanish version of “Broken Man” – from her upcoming album to be released on November 15th called Todos Nacen Gritando – did I say that right? (video) Grity-Tando – I didn’t say it as cool as that guy either. I’m trying. Nevertheless, this is a full Spanish language reimagining of this year’s released St. Vincent album All Born Screaming – which personally for me, just might be the album of the year (“Broken Man”)
And then there’s Charli XCX – her Brat album dropped this past June (“Von Dutch” clip) There’s a deluxe Brat album out today but that shouldn’t be confused with the other one called: Brat and It’s the Same but There’s Three More Songs So It’s Not – that’s really the title. I like that type of humor (“Spring breakers” clip) Back to the newer one, Charli XCX released Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat – again, that’s the title. It’s all the Brat songs again, but they feature everyone from addison rae to The 1975 to Billie Eilish (clip)
The last time Fuller released a full album was back in 2022 (“Never Better”) 13 songs in all including that one “Never Better”. Album was called Lowlife. There were some singles released in 2023, but back on January 5th, there was his first release of this year called “Chicago” (clip) Since then, there has been a ton of releases by Fuller. How many? Well, today he released “I Know Yr Close” – his 21st single of 2024. Go check out some Fuller (clip)
Several quick hits of new music: Pixies and Breeders rocker – Kim Deal – has been working on her new album – Nobody Loves You More – for like 13 years. Full album drop on November 22nd, but today we get the album’s 3rd release called “A Good Time Pushed” // The Cure have shared the 2nd release from Songs of A Lost World – called “A Fragile Thing”— this one is 2 minutes shorter than the 1st song that they released which was 6:48. This one is 4:43. (show hourglass) // Jelly Roll – full album all out in its glory – 22 songs – over an hour of music – it’s called Beautifully Broken (Run DMC Xmas) Uh-oh. New holiday tunes. Rick Braun, an instrumentalist, – he plays the trumpet and is from Allentown, PA. Sorta local? His Christmas album is out just in time for October – it’s called: It’s Christmas – I love this type of cool jazz sound for the holidays (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.
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 Marcus King, Jennie, 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 don’t worry about being liked. You have to be yourself.” – by Vince Vaughn
Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range. Hey – go click that video!
(Kinks “Victoria” cut)
Happy Friday Eve!
That’s the Kinks with “Victoria” – track #1 off of their – Arthur – album which on this date back in 1969, it was released. Many fans consider this the best album from the Kinks. I know the website Stereogum listed that. I’ll provide a link at brentevans.net.
(“Father Christmas” cut)
I’m sort of embarrassed to say that it’s the “Father Christmas” song that I know the best from The Kinks.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Change is guaranteed, but growth isn’t. If you want to grow, you’ve got to want it.” – by David Chang
