The Oedipus Project
The truly wonderful Aimee Mann will give us her 9th album at the very end of March.
Mental Illness has been 5 years in the making and she simply gets better and better. How we adore her.
Goose Snow Cone is the opening track.
Goose Snow Cone
Real Estate come forth with a new album, In Mind, in March.
Since their last album, Matt Mondanile, one of the founding members has left to concentrate on his band Ducktails.
Pleased that the band’s melodic sounds continue as heard in the first single Darling.
Darling
Protests songs are slowly emerging. We will feature them here as them become available.
Depeche Mode will include Where’s the Revolution on their album Spirit in March.
A bit lyrically mundane but the spirit is there and this is only the beginning.
Where’s the Revolution
Austra’s new album, Future Politics, incorporates a variety of electronic styles.
We must also note that this Toronto-based band wrote Future Politics before the events of the last half of 2016.
I Love You More Than You Love Yourself is the gorgeous single.
I Love You More Than You Love Yourself
Powerful new song from Boston’s Dropkick Murphys.
Paying My Way about the scourge of addiction from the new album 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory.
Paying My Way
Arcade Fire and the great Mavis Staples raise their voices in these troubled times.
All proceeds benefit the ACLU.
I Give You Power by Arcade Fire featuring Mavis Staples
I adored London Grammar’s 2013 debut album If You Wait.
The new single from this English trio features the haunting vocals of Hannah Reid. Rooting For You begins a capella.
Rooting For You
The end of the year is always a slow time for new music releases. This year is no exception save a new Nine Inch Nails EP.
Trent Reznor delivers music on his own unusual timetable.
Not the Actual Events is a 5-song extended play with the heavy “Burning Bright (Field on Fire)”.
Tonight I present my annual Christmas Eve Broadcast on 89.7, WGBH, Boston’s Local NPR.
Around the world at www.wgbh.org/radio.
6 p.m.-Midnight (EST) Christmas (and this year Hanukkah) music from my private collection heard nowhere else.
Songs like:
“Simple Feeling” by Smoke Fairies
Peace
It’s coming on Christmas and we have a new Christmas song from L.A.’s Best Coast.
“Christmas and Everyday” was written for An American Girl Story – Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas, an upcoming Amazon Kids short film based on a character from the American Girl historical doll lineup.
Joyful power pop to put us in the mood.
The Hamilton Mixtape records new versions of the songs from the ground-breaking Broadway play “Hamilton”.
Featuring a diverse range of artists from the Roots to Usher, Wiz Khalifa to Chance the Rapper, here Regina Spektor along with Ben Folds sing “Dear Theodosia”, a song that Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton sing to their newborn children, reflecting on fatherhood, their own lives as orphans, (Hamilton an immigrant), and promising to do everything possible to make it a better country for them.
Prescient today…
“Dear Theodosia” Regina Spektor (featuring Ben Folds)
Honeyblood is the Scottish female duo with the wonderfully named Stina Marie Claire Tweeddale on vocals and guitar and Cat Myers providing additional vocals and drums.
Babes Never Die is their 2nd album. Listen to “Sea Hearts” and “Cruel”.
“Sea Hearts”
“Cruel”
