Greta Van Fleet
Yes, reminiscent of Led Zeppelin but so what.
A young band from rural Michigan is keeping the genre alive.
Greta Van Fleet rocks.
Highway Tune
Downtown Boys
Downtown Boys is a punk band out of Providence, R.I.
Lead by vocalist Victoria Ruiz, the band’s powerful political lyrics invoke the passion of their punk predecessors.
Cost of Living is their latest with the song Lips That Bite.
Lips That Bite
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, two of our favorite artists, have teamed up unexpectedly to create an album.
Lotta Sea Lice will include this song Over Everything.
Over Everything
Purity Ring
Purity Ring, the duo from Montreal, gave us a new song on the 5th anniversary of their debut album Shrines.
Asido is the commemorative song.
Asido
Zola Jesus
Zola Jesus’s 5th album, Okovi, is set for a September release.
Her music is hard to define as she combines various genres with electronic underpinnings to create compelling songs as heard here with Soak.
Soak
Perera Elsewhere
Perera Elsewhere is the stage name of Sasha Perera.
Her 2nd album, All of This, features the intriguingly experimental Something’s Up, a perfect introduction to this London-born Berlin-based singer.
Something’s Up
Broken Social Scene
Hug of Thunder is the new album from the Broken Social Scene.
Feist provides the vocals on the title track.
Hug of Thunder
Beth Ditto
Back from my travels for a few days.
Beth Ditto describes herself as a “fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas”.
Her debut album Fake Sugar just came out.
This woman can sing! Listen to the track Fire.
Fire
Captain SKA
Music still has the power to inspire political change.
Captain SKA, the English musical collective, updated their song Liar, Liar. It became a hit in Britain and influenced the defeat of the Conservative Party’s Teresa May.
Awaiting our American counterpart…
Liar Liar GE2017
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius is the name that Mike Hadreas has adopted.
This Seattle native’s 4th album No Shape features the song Slip Away.
I’m also particularly fond of Wreath.
Slip Away
Wreath
Chastity Belt
These 4 women from Walla Walla, Washington call themselves Chastity Belt.
Their 3rd album, I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, is due in a few days.
Listen to how the band has matured in the song Different Now.
Different Now