new music weekend / Friday 05-02-25
(New Music Weekend Intro)
Who’s coming up! Puddle of Mudd, Nilüfer Yanya, Amble, and you’ll never guess – Barbara Streisand.
(Countdown Video)
New Music Weekend:
- 1st Up – Puddle of Mudd (“She Hates Me”) Yup – that Puddle of Mudd. That song was released back in July of 2002! Now, the band has made numerous albums since then (“Psycho”) However, they have had numerous transformations with the line-up, but singing guy and guitarist, Wes Scantlin, has been the most consistent member, which is good thing because his voice is truly what jumps out to me as being Puddle of Mudd (“Blurry”) We’ve got their 7th studio album to enjoy today – just 9 seconds past 30 minutes of rock joy, which tallies 9 songs in all. Album is called Kiss the Machine and the first official release off the album is track #1 “Beautimous” (clip)
- Last September, Nilüfer Yanya released her album – My Method Actor (“Method Actor”) I love the color of this vinyl – Turquoise – Had to check with my wife on that color. Not blue and not green. (“Just A Western”) The song that I totally dug from the beginning from this album is called “Like I Say.” (“Like I Say”) Nilüfer Yanya is touring this summer, so I’m not sure of a full album coming, but this past Monday – “New Music Monday” – she gave us at least one new song called “Cold Heart” (clip)
- I talked about this band back in March (“Schoolyard Days”) The band is called Amble who’s debut album “Reverie” is out in its entirety on May 23rd (“Swan Song”) So far though, the band has been quite generous with slowing releasing out this album. 14 tracks in all. 8 have already been released and today we get our 9th. I’m still looking forward to May 23rd. Here’s Amble with their latest “Treehouse Wings” (clip)
- Several quick hits of new music: After releasing her first song in 4 years last week, Lorde has officially announced a new album – her 4th – titled Virgin and the Virgin’s arrival date – June 27th // On Mondays, I do a video called Missed Music Monday. This past Monday, I talked about missing out on the deluxe album from Shaboozey. I could have also talked about new songs released from Linkin Park and The All-American Rejects. Their on my Spotify playlist for this week. // The last time I heard Barbara Streisand on Spotify – it was Christmas. I like her rendition of Jingle Bells (clip) Today though, she popped up because of her upcoming new duets album called The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2 (the first one arrived 11 years ago) – Volume 2 includes an all-star duet line-up featuring Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Mariah Carey, and Hozier, who is on the first song to arrive prior to the album’s June 27th drop date (clip)
Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Spill Magazine, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.
I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that! Anything that I really messed up and missed – well, that’s why I’ll be doing Missed Music Monday on Monday.
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