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The live performance COVID-19 robbed me of:

...and what cheers me up anytime

Check out the instrumentals for those two songs. Even without vocals, those beats make me go wild!

Terminator X FTW.

I've been really enjoying Sarah Jarosz's new album, World On The Ground.

I have a download code for Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher. I bought it digitally and on vinyl because the vinyl was delayed. The vinyl came with a download code which I don't need. If anyone wants it, just PM me.

There's two types of people in this world - those who love sea shanties, and those who've never heard any.
Fortunately, The Dreadnoughts released an album last year called Into The North and it's full of shanties and other nautical-themed songs to convert the masses. I've listened to this album almost daily this year.

If these songs do it for you, I highly recommend their album Victory Square, which is more focused on European folk, rather than shanties. And yeah, I know 'European folk' is a really broad description, but they have stuff stretching from Dublin to Moscow on that album.

Proof positive that Ween traveled back in time and invented prog rock before returning to the 1990s to become the ultimate band of all genres of music.

Alanis Morissette sings one of her new songs to her daughter (on Tonight Show) who keeps interrupting her with questions

Music video version:

Alanis is KILLING on that Tonight Show performance. I love the part where her daughter covers her mouth. Hilarious!

How To Mom and Sing on the Tonight Show at the Same Time.

!!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk) released their new album. My programming background makes me want to pronounce their name as BangBangBang or NotNotNot

pandasuit wrote:

!!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk) released their new album. My programming background makes me want to pronounce their name as BangBangBang or NotNotNot

Yea that's annoying. Why not just name themselves Chk Chk Chk? It's kinda like if you have to explain the joke it didn't work..

ranalin wrote:
pandasuit wrote:

!!! (pronounced Chk Chk Chk) released their new album. My programming background makes me want to pronounce their name as BangBangBang or NotNotNot

Yea that's annoying. Why not just name themselves Chk Chk Chk? It's kinda like if you have to explain the joke it didn't work..

Musicians and naming amirite? At least they didn't name the band X Æ A-12 (pronounced "X Ash A Twelve").

Glass Animals new album is out. I won't re-post singles I've previous shared here but here's some other songs from the album to check out.

halfwaywrong wrote:

This one is actually a tribute to Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers. The man's voice is incredible. This is probably his most famous song, a sea shanty he wrote himself:

He died in a plane accident, where the plane made an emergency landing and was being evacuated due to fire, but they opened the doors, which raised the oxygen levels inside the plane and caused it to flash into a huge blaze while he, and many others, were still inside.

Haha yeah, I probably should have mentioned something about that! I'm glad you did though.

In addition to the tribute to Stan Rogers on that album, they also covered his song, Northwest Passage. My wife was a fan of his long before I knew of either him or The Dreadnoughts. We had his song "Forty-Five Years" on our wedding playlist.

And while we're on the subject of criminally underrated Canadian songwriters, here's a new song by John K. Samson.

NSMike wrote:

He died in a plane accident, where the plane made an emergency landing and was being evacuated due to fire, but they opened the doors, which raised the oxygen levels inside the plane and caused it to flash into a huge blaze while he, and many others, were still inside.

Wow, this sent me down a rabbit hole. I knew the song but I vaguely thought it was Irish and had no idea who sang it.

Per wikipedia, the plane crash story is even worse - he apparently made it off the plane safely but had gone back to help others evacuate when the flash fire happened.

Found this clip from a documentary of the man himself singing the song in his kitchen:

I’m ready for this movie

It's nutty how you can just type random nonsense into youtube and find buried treasure.

Found this band on some random Stoner Rock playlist on Spotify. If you like your rock music very guitar-forward, you will like this.

I found this song to be pretty catchy:

Could not be later to the party, but Low's most recent album Double Negative is so good it's had me exploring all of their back catalog. The opening on a really nice set of speakers is amaaazing.

oops

The Dead Milkmen just released a new song.
Well, a studio recording of a cover they’ve been doing live for years, at least.

Jonman wrote:

Could not be later to the party, but Low's most recent album Double Negative is so good it's had me exploring all of their back catalog. The opening on a really nice set of speakers is amaaazing.

Double Negative is an astonishingly fitting album for 2020. In fact all of Low's work since Drums and Guns has been awesome... Low-key furious and tender every other beat, and just genuinely bewildered by the state of the world as each album is released. Double Negative was ahead of it's time by precisely now years and puts me in mind of a sadder, more resigned Radiohead as at the release of Hail to the Thief.

Kinda funny how much this sounds like old They Might Be Giants.

#3?

ruhk wrote:

The Dead Milkmen just released a new song.
Well, a studio recording of a cover they’ve been doing live for years, at least.

WHAT THE WHAT?!?

RawkGWJ wrote:
ruhk wrote:

The Dead Milkmen just released a new song.
Well, a studio recording of a cover they’ve been doing live for years, at least.

WHAT THE WHAT?!?

They got back together ten or so years ago. They’ve mostly just been touring but they did release a new album in 2017.