The Regrettes
In January we discussed Hamildrops, songs from the monumental musical Hamilton, covered by various artists, one song released each month.
The Regrettes, the L.A. punk band, recently contributed their version of Helpless.
Helpless
Freya Ridings
The voice of London-based singer and pianist Freya Ridings will dazzle you.
Ultraviolet, from her forthcoming debut album.
Ultraviolet
Dear Rouge
Dear Rouge is the Canadian electronic husband and wife duo Drew and Danielle McTaggart.
Live Through the Night grooves from their latest album Phases.
Live Through the Night
Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot, punk Russian provocateurs, invaded the field during the final match of the World Cup to protest the continual oppression in their country.
Arrested and now sentenced to jail, the band released a video and their demands:
1. Free Oleg Sentsov and other political prisoners.
2. Don’t put people in jail for likes and reposts.
3. Stop mass arrests at political rallies.
4. Stop fucking with Navalny.
5. Stop imprisoning so many people for 228 article of Criminal code (drug offenses).
6. Cancel 282 article of Russian Criminal code (“extremism”, one of the main political criminal articles)
7. Freedom of speech and expression in Russia.
8. Give a federal TV-channel to an activist media outlet “Mediazona” (zona.media)
The song Track About a Good Cop contrasts a mythical “heavenly cop” who fights for the people and the “earthly cop” who suppresses them.
*repeat repeat
Nothing like a little surf rock during the heat of summer.
*repeat repeat, just the beach pop that we need.
Nashville-based but with the spirit of the coasts, Floral Canyon, their 2nd album, came out last year but is now garnering justified attention.
Everybody’s Falling in Love
Mondo Cozmo
Mondo Cozmo, the Philly/L.A. singer/songwriter, was originally known as Joshua Keith Ostrander.
His new EP is entitled after my namesake.
What better way to return from my travels than with Your Motherfucker.
Your Motherfucker
Arctic Monkeys
5 years later we now have a new Arctic Monkeys album.
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is a gorgeous new direction for the band and to my ear a very Bowiesque turn.
Listen here to the first track Star Treatment (with a classic line “I just wanted to be one of the Stokes, now look at the mess you made me make…”) and the new single Four Out of Five.
Star Treatment
Four Out of Five
Nina K
Nina Kinert is a Swedish singer/songwriter not yet well-known in America.
On her lovely new song Chapped Lips she teams up with Samuel T. Herring, the distinctive voice of the band Future Islands.
Chapped Lips
Childish Gambino
Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, has just given us one of the most chilling videos in years.
Truly, “This is America”.
PJ Harvey/Jon Parish
Longtime collaborators PJ Harvey and Jon Parish duet together on Parish’s forthcoming solo album Big Dog Dante.
“Sorry For Your Loss”is a mournfully lovely tribute to their mutual friend, the late Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous.
“Sorry For Your Loss”
Snail Mail
Snail Mail will release her debut album, Lush, in June.
The solo project of Baltimore’s Lindsey Jordan, we have 2 songs in anticipation.
Heat Wave
Pristine
