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A musician friend of mine recommended this and a few other artists to me that I would never have come across any other way. It’s so nice to have friends with such varied tastes, and who know that I’m always on the lookout for new albums. It makes this project a lot easier to keepContinue reading “#842 – self-titled by Wet Leg”

For most of my life, I had my back turned to anything that could be considered pop music. While there certainly is a decent amount of that genre that I could do without, there is also a lot that I now realize that I’ve been missing out on, especially in the realm of indie-pop fromContinue reading “#841 – Premonitions by Miya Folick”

One of my most prolific music head friends told me about these guys, who he had just seen in a club venue in Los Angeles. He’s never steered me wrong and this is no exception.

I’ve had one song from this album on one of my go-to Spotify playlists for quite some time. When it came on for the umpteenth time last night, I realized I needed more or Micah P Hinson. He also shares a last name with Unknown Hinson, who is the voice of the main character inContinue reading “#839 – Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress by Micah P. Hinson”

The director of a TV show that I’ve been working on always has some good recommendations from his era of choice, the 1980s. He’ll ask me to play a certain song and that generally leads me to explore the rest of the album as well, as was the case with the title track of thisContinue reading “#838 – Different Class by Pulp”

Due to my FOMO over missing this year’s Desert Daze festival in Joshua Tree National Park, I am going through the lineup and listening to all of the artists that I’m not familiar with, which is how we arrived at today’s selection.

Not sure how I came across these guys, but they are a great trio who came up in the music world as a backing band for a bunch of big time rap and R&B artists, including Alicia Keys, 50 Cent and Lauryn Hill.

I discovered this artist while delving into the career of 100 gecs member Laura Les, who was involved in a remix of Mydata. I may seem to be too old for hyperpop, but here we are. Gotta say, I’m into it.

This is a really cool group comprised of The Shins’ James Mercer and producer Danger Mouse. I was obsessed with Danger Mouse for a while after hearing The Grey Album, a remix/mashup of The Beatles’ White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album. With that and his body of work, it is really cool to hear aContinue reading “#834 – self-titled by Broken Bells”

This is a really interesting band. I learned of them through an article about their recording of the oldest known Scandinavian song. They also gained notoriety from a video of their first ever performance, which was for an audience of about 10,000 and featured a large cast of dancers dressed in historical costumes from allContinue reading “#833 – Drif by Heilung”