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New Music Friday | July 8th
Happy….
Be a Kid Again Day, Math 2.0 Day, National Chocolate with Almonds Day, National SCUD Day, National Video Game Day.
I am the City Reliquary’s volunteer of the month! Woohoo. Check out our events and learn more about the museum here.
I quit smoking. It actually sucks. I have really bad withdraws, or covid. Only time (and multiple negative covid tests) will tell. The amount of Diet Dr Pepper I’m drinking to fix the oral fixation will surely either give me kidney stones or result in a bottle-cap prize.
I’m thinking about transferring the energy I’m putting into TikTok (maybe 1-2 hours a day?) and reinvesting it into Youtube for videos that come out less frequently, but are better quality (I hope) and maybe more interesting. Not sure if this is a good idea. Tell me your thoughts.
You’ll notice this newsletter has a new look and feel. That is in the hopes that these small changes will make this weekly email a repeatable and manageable thing.
“ENOUGH OF THE TALKING: Let’s here the music mentioned,” playlist here so you can save your eyes from reading an email on a Friday (blasphemy!)
GOODBUY! by Francobollo
Fracobollo’s first album “Long Live Life” is a desert island pick for me. I am in their top .1% of listeners. I did an interview with the band 4 years ago and owe them all pints when I go to the UK.
This EP was released in 2021, but they are just now getting around to putting it on Bandcamp. I don’t really enjoy any particular songs off this album apart from “Modern Life is Getting Old” which is eerily cheery.
So why use the band posting an EP that was released a year ago as an excuse to talk about them?
Because when releasing this on Bandcamp, they included the message “We are finally catching up and using Bandcamp as our main source of distribution!” This leads me to believe that… more is on the way.
Cave World by Viagra Boys
“The song [“Troglodyte”] has a bunch of timeline errors, because when I first started writing it, I thought a troglodyte was one of those fossils you find in a rock,” front man Sebastian Murphy confesses. “I was referencing someone being so far backwards that they’re a fucking seashell, like the most primitive form of life. But then, I realised that I was completely wrong, and a troglodyte is a fucking caveman.”
Source: Dazed
Last Week’s Highlights:
Ghost Woman by Ghost Woman
Modern Psychedelia | Sludgey | Throwback Sound | Debut Album
Fleeting Future by Akusmi
Experimental Jazz | Atmospheric | Main Character A24 Film Energy
Household Name by Momma
Indie Rock | Post-Punk | Outstanding Female Vocals
Honorable Mentions (most from my hiatus):
[Fleeting Future, by Akusmi]
[Onyx Pyramid, by Luke Sanger]
[Runnner demos]
[Pink Dolphins by Anteloper]
[Dance The Devil Away by The Natural Yogurt Band]
[My Other People by TV Priest]
[Wrong Datum by Teenage Art Scene]
Next Week:
Beabadoobee: Beatopia
Black Midi: Hellfire
Interpol: The Other Side of Make-Believe
Superorganism: World Wide Pop
Delicate Steve: After Hours
Metric: Formentera
Later this month:
7/22
She & Him: Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson
Ty Segall: “Hello, Hi”
7/29
Beyoncé: Renaissance
Florist: Florist
Of Montreal: Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck
Chat Pile: God’s Country
Today in history:
In 1947, New Mexico's Roswell Daily Record reports an alien aircraft has crashed near a local ranch with the headline "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer In Roswell Region." In the coming decades, extraterrestrials and flying saucers invade several songs, including David Bowie's "Starman," Megadeth's "Hangar 18," and Radiohead's "Subterranean Homesick Alien." Although the Air Force explains the UFO was actually a downed weather balloon, the Roswell Incident spurs numerous conspiracy theories about alien activity and government cover-ups, providing plenty of material for songwriters looking to venture beyond love songs.
Frank Zappa’s Entire Catalog Acquired By Universal Music Group. I wonder how they are going to incorporate this into the theme park.
Pitchfork is going to be streaming their Pitchfork Music Fest on the 15h of July, with sets from SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, Spiritualized, Jeff Tweedy, Low, Japanese Breakfast, George Clinton, Toro Y Moi, and MANY other talented musicians.
You can catch sets all weekend on Pitchfork.com, YouTube, and Twitter.