Updates / Additions
New Releases
“At the End of the Day,” Sylvia Tyson – Nov. 3
“I Was Too Young to Hear Silence,” Patrick Shiroishi – Nov. 10
“Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations,” The Vaccines – Jan. 12, 2024
“A Mirror Brightly,” Geographer – Feb. 23, 2024
New Music Friday: Sept. 22, 2023
Vinyl
“Rockin’ the Ritz 1988,” 3 (Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer and Robert Berry) – Nov. 17
Just Released
(Surprise releases + more)“Her Favorite Flowers,” Rocco (six-song EP; Hear here; BMG Rights Management)
“Coney Island Kid,” The Mommyheads (Mommyheads)
“Almost Time,” John Surge and The Haymakers (producer: Tommy Detamore; Blackbird Record Label)
“Ninne Nanne,” The Delay in the Universal Loop (The Delay in the Universal Loop)
“Heaven,” Cleo Sol (Forever Living Originals)
“If We Cannot Talk,” Eckhardt and the House (BERT music / TCBYML)
“If It Wasn’t For My Friends, Things Could Be Different,” JAWS (five-song EP; JAWS)
“Blue Hour,” Eddy Lee Ryder (six-song EP; Elizabeth D Brennan)
“ENTELECHY,” Sandy Bell (Lion and the Bluest Star)
“Country Life in America,” Charlie Kaplan (Glamour Gowns)
“Saturnia,” GUM (Spinning Top Records)
“The Mercy of Women,” Dead Leaf Echo (third album; PaperCup Music)
“Penelope,” Small Crush (Asian Man)
“How I Learned to Love the Freaks,” Vinny Peculiar (Alan R Wilkes)
“(I’m just) Chillin’, on Fire,” Carlos Niño & Friends (International Anthem)
When times get rough / You can fall back on us
New Songs Playlist
(Click on title to stream)
Desire, Beharie
Crude Oil, Ethan P. Flynn
Le Temple Volant, Crumb & Melody’s Echo Chamber
BIGTIMEGOODTIME, Adam Melchor
This Side of Me, Feral Family
i suck at grieving, Lauran Hibberd
Dive, Lauryn Macfarlane
My Kind of Love, Prema Smith
Lifetime, Faye Webster
Saturno, Bumont & Tita
Census Designated, Jane Remover
Lonely Illusion, Blurry
I Cocoon, The Pauses
Hold Me, J8KE
Today’s Birthdays
R.I.P.
Fred Lewis (Lakeside)
Lou Deprijck (Belgian singer-songwriter, best known for writing “Ça plane pour moi”)
Dave Roe (country bassist who played with Johnny Cash for 11 years)
Ed Wright (trailblazing music industry giant)
This Week In … 1996
(Source: Billboard)
No. 1 – “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix),” Los Del Rio
Biggest Mover Within the Top 40 – “Macarena,” Los Del Rio (from No. 36 to No. 23)
Top Debut (No. 44) – “If It Makes You Happy,” Sheryl Crow
Biggest Mover Within the Hot 100 – “Mouth,” Merril Bainbridge (from No. 59 to No. 47)
Shoulda Been a Bigger Hit (only reached No. 55 in the U.S.) – “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” Oasis
Music News
> *NSYNC Members Get Nostalgic About Their Peak Boy Band Days on ‘Hot Ones’ | CNN
> Billy Strings, Tyler Childers Win Big at 2023 Americana Music Awards | Saving Country Music
> Taylor Swift’s Get Out the Vote Plea Drives Record Registration Traffic to Vote.Org | Billboard
> Sufjan Stevens Diagnosed With Guillain-Barré Syndrome, Says He Is Relearning How To Walk | HUFFPOST
> Hits Don’t Lie: Shakira Bares Her Soul on Turning Pain Into Pop Gold | Billboard
Tour + Festival News
> Pantera Pulls Out of 2023 Aftershock Festival | Loudwire> Noah Kahan Announces His First-Ever North American Stadium and Arena Tour | People
> Dustin Lynch Plots Killed the Cowboy Tour in 2024 | American Songwriter
