Labor Day Music
Hi, everyone. This isn’t a playlist in honor of Labor Day per se (though as a union member, you’re welcome for this long weekend!) but it’s all damn good. 1. Bel Heir — “Washed Up” is about youthful disaffection. Or…
Hayley Thompson-King — Psychotic Melancholia
Inspired by her youthful days in Clowns for Christ, Hayley Thompson-King presents her “Sodom and Gomorrah concept album,” Psychotic Melancholia. As metal as that sounds, these are in fact the basic ingredients for a rich and complex “psychedelic country” album. …
Rocky Bottom — American Man
I really, really wanted Rocky Bottom to be the nom de plume of a militant queer folk punk singer by the consolation prize — a collection of smart songs delivered with charm to spare by Alex Hernandez — is excellent.…
Music Roundup!
1. Andrew Whitman’s “Things To Come” is a mellow and sincere look at the future. 2. Mark Mathis‘s “I Will Love You Forever” hits a little close to home, dedicated to Mathis’s son as he and his mother went through…
Blank Range — Marooned With the Treasure
Listening to Blank Range is like scratching a particularly annoying itch: sooooooooooooo refreshing and, more importantly, sooooooooooo satisfying. The band’s got a clear hodgepodge of influences: a little bit of Gaslight Anthem, a little bit of Steve Earle, a little…
Music Roundup 8/29!
1. “A Chance to Fly” by Scott Jackson is a warm song that suggests that, even though it’s off of Jackson’s debut album, this isn’t his first rodeo by a long shot. 2. John Dominy‘s “Bootstraps” reminds me of the…
WATCH A MOVIE: The Shopkeeper
There’s no question that the music industry is flailing — now even the streaming giants like Spotify and Pandora that destabilized things in the first are becoming victims of their own success and record companies are beginning to gain the…
Music Roundup!
I get most of the songs for these playlists from a site called SubmitHub and my queue is…overloaded to say the least. So I’ll be posting a playlist every day through the end of September (or until I run out…