New Music Weekend / Friday 06-20-25
(New Music Weekend Intro)
Happy Full Weekend of Summer – for realsy this time. My area has like 4 days coming up of temperature toeing the line of 100. Can’t wait (kid about the sweating) See I can’t say that – it’s not cute via this mouth. Let’s get to the music.
Who’s coming up! Motion City Soundtrack, sombr, The Dare, Daisy Grenade, and more
(Countdown Video)
New Music Weekend:
- Motion City Soundtrack haven’t given us a new album in basically a decade (“Don’t Call It a Comeback” clip) Slight tangent – during the time period that I grew up, I think of only one guy whenever I hear “Don’t Call It a Comeback” (“Mama Said Knock You Out”) LL Cool J with “Mama Said Knock You Out” (another clip) Oh man – I remember working out to that song and thinking I was unstoppable. So untrue – I was. How am I going to get this back to the punk-pop band from Minneapolis? Play a song of theirs (“Everything Is Alright”) From 2005, that’s “Everything Is Alright”. But again, let’s talk about the new that’s coming from Motion City Soundtrack. Album is called The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World – arrives in it’s entirety on September 19th. That’s nearly Autumn – today for the summer though, we get the album’s first release “She Is Afraid” (clip)
- Back in September 2023, sombr released an 8-pack EP called: in another life (“burner phone”) He was 17 then, which yes – makes him 19 now. Along his way despite being a short one – he’s had some relationship ups and downs (“back to friends”) Sharing a bed with someone and then going back to being friends – that’s never fun (“undressed”) and then the cold reality of getting undressed to someone new again. So, what’s he going to sing about this time? (“we never dated”) Thinking about someone all the time that he never even dated. Not sure when an entire album is coming but I am enjoying these recent singles from sombr. Let’s play a little more “undressed” (clip)
- Several quick hits of new music: Harrison Patrick Smith is known professionally as The Dare. Three summers ago – that’s 2022 – he released his song “Girls” (clip) Can’t play too much of that jam – little edgy. Today though, we received his deluxe album: What’s Wrong With New York?: Afters – there are several extras which make it “deluxey” like this new single called “Cheeky” (clip) // New albums out now from Haim, Yungblud, Karol G, Badflower, and Benson Boone, – you can catch the new singles being pushed off these albums via my Spotify playlist – link is at brentevans.net // The last time I talked about Daisy Grenade – they were hiding bodies (clip) It’s always fun when a gruessome song can make you smile ear to ear. Today, we’ve got a new song from the girls of Daisy Grenade – a push for Song of Summer – we’ll see. Here’s “Don’t Sweat It” (clip)
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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