new music friday / Friday 02-28-25

(New Music Friday Intro)

It’s a full weekend of March – already. What’s that phrase? “March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb.” Can that be reversed? In like a lamb, out like a lion. End of the month – Rawr. Who’s coming up for New Music Friday! Benson Boone, Marie Davidson, Lizzo, Yo La Tengo, and Grace VanderWaal

(Countdown Video)

New Music Friday:

• American Idol drop-out, Benson Boone, it’s okay, he’s doing just fine (“Beautiful Things” clip) For this year’s Grammys, he was up for Best New Artist. By the way, did you see what happened during his performance? (clip) Could I have Heidi Klum and Nikki Glaser help me with my clothes like that? Make a phone call? New song from Mr. Boone (clip) He’s 22 – bet he doesn’t hear Mr. too often. That’s the latest from Benson Boone “Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else” – ouch. With upcoming performances at Coachella and Governors Ball, I would not be surprised to hear some more new music is on the way,

• (“Sexy Clown”) That’s called “Sexy Clown”. I don’t tap into the Dance music too often, but for some reason, I was oddly drawn here with my fear of clowns (goat) Marie Davidson just released her sixth album called City of Clowns – a city that I must say is NOT on my wish list to visit. (“Fun Times” clip) Now, the music from the City of Clowns album – I’m digging into it. 10 songs in all. The one that jumped out to me is “Fun Times” (clip)

• Lizzo is back again this year (“Love in Real Life” clip) Besides her Barbie contribution from 2023 (clip), Lizzo hasn’t released any new music since her album Special from 2022 (“About Damn Time”) She has been in the news for some other things, but we’re not going to go there. Instead, let’s enjoy this new song called “Love in Real Life” (clip) Hey Ho. That reminds me of another song (Lumineers) Different sound, but the heying and the hoing is definitely happening in both songs. //

• Several quick hits of new music: The original soundtrack for the 2006 film Old Joy was done by Yo La Tengo. That compilation soundtrack was called They Shoot, We Score. Today – Yo La Tengo released for the first time on vinyl – Old Joy – a six instrumental track EP. By way, this was all recorded in a single afternoon at Yo La Tengo’s studio in Hoboken. That was a busy afternoon. // End of March, we get Dreams On Toast – the 8th studio album from The Darkness. Today, we received the 4th song off the album – “Walking Through Fire” – be sure to check my Spotify playlist to hear that one! // And finally, once upon a time preteen America’s Got Talent ukelele girl – Grace Vanderwaal. She’s grown up. (clip) She is 21 now, but I still feel creepy. That’s her new song. “Babydoll” (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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5K EVERY DAY – Day #59

(“The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”)

Maybe that song’s a little excessive. Let’s play a little more.

(“The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”)

2 months down, 10 to go. Yeah. 5K Every Day.

(Day #59)

Really need some new shoes. (show the shoe) Just kidding – I don’t run in these.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.” – by Steve Prefontaine (“Pre”)

5K EVERY DAY – Day #58

(song)

Ahhhhh – new music – that actually arrived last Friday from Martin Luke Brown. An entire album called man oh man! I’ve listened through several times today. Makes a good chill, relaxing sound as I deal with paperwork.

(song)

Prior to all this, I did continue the 5K Every Day this morning.

(Day #58)

Quote of the Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“If you can’t be happy with a coffee, you won’t be happy with a yacht.” – by Naval Ravikant

5K EVERY DAY – Day #57

(“Country House” from Blur)

Driving around today, I heard that song – my favorite Blur Song.

Most people’s favorite is this one.

(“Song #2” from Blur)

And that’s fine. Mine is still “Country House” from 1995?

(“Country House” from Blur)

This is why I run so much. My attempt to stay young. FYI – I ran.

(Day #57)

“Quote of the Day”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“20 years from now you’d give anything to be this exact age, exactly this healthy, in this exact moment. Take a second to enjoy it.” – by Richard Webster via Chris Williamson

5K EVERY DAY – Day #56

(“Virtual Insanity”)

That’s who I feel like in this hat – Jamiroquai.

I ran today but not in this hat.

(#56)

Quote of the Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Do what you can with what you have. Nothing is needed. And there are no excuses.” – by Rick Rubin

missed music Monday / Monday 02-24-25

(Missed Music Monday opener)

Couple months ago, I realized that I had missed on a song released from British rocker Sam Fender and his – at that point in time – upcoming new album called: People Watching.

(“People Watching”)

This all means that I should have known that this past Friday the whole album was dropping

(“People Watching”)

This is Sam Fender’s third studio album, a collection of songs that locks in on the daily grind, the everyday dramas, and the oddball characteristics of the people he knows.

I’ve spun it now like 3 or 4x – The song “People Watching” is still one of my favorites – sorta reminds me of a Gaslight Anthem song, but I’m also enjoying “Arm’s Length” and “Remember My Name”.

Go check out the People Watching album from Sam Fender

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5K EVERY DAY – Day #55

(“My Name Is”)

Yesterday back in 1999, Eminem dropped his first major-label album, The Slim Shady LP.

Things just haven’t been the same since.

(clip)

I ran.

(Day #55)

Blah, Blah, Blah

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.” – by Eminem

5K EVERY DAY – Day #54

(“Another Saturday Night”)

It’s Sunday which I consider the end of the week. Monday’s the kick-off. Anyway, this past week, I did NOT do a good job of “Enjoying the Now”

(“Sugar Dumpling”)

“Sugar Dumpling”? How can you not smile when you hear that? I turned to my Sam Cooke vinyl yesterday and today to help pull me along.

(song or Day?)

Blah, Blah, Blah

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.” – by Mel Robbins

5K EVERY DAY – Day #53

(“Little Lion Man”)

Running outside!

(Day #53)

Quote of the Day

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Goal without deadline = fantasy.” – by Jim Rohn

new music friday / Friday 02-21-25

(New Music Friday Intro)

Who’s coming up – little heavy on the alt rock – Mumford & Sons, Noshows, The Wombats, and The Tings Tings

(Countdown Video)

New Music Friday:

• End of last year, I talked about the Indie-Hop sounding band: Noshows (“Portrait”) I also mentioned how the band isn’t just putting out good music , they’re also helping people navigate anxiety through music and pop-up events – the community is called: Magnify the Mind. I’ll provide a link (clip) “Used To It” was the first release off the new EP called Tightrope which is all hanging out today. Song being pushed on Spotify is “Pieces” (clip)

• I talked about this duo just a couple weeks ago (“Tell ‘Em”) – I really like that song. I apologize for playing it too much. The band is Sleigh Bells and they went on to release their first new music in basically 3 years (clip) New song is called “Wanna Start A Band?” They have since announced their sixth album – Bunky Becky Birthday Boy – will be shared to us all on Friday, April 11th. But today – we do get another song from that upcoming record called “Bunky Pop” (clip)

• Remember that band Mumford & Sons (“Little Lion Man”). They’ve actually done several albums since this first glorious one. One of my first vinyl albums to get me back into vinyl. (“The Cave”) If you watched the SNL 50th Anniversary Concert, you got to see the guys performed their hit song from 2012 – “I Will Wait” (“I Will Wait”) Fast Forward to January 17th – yes, last month and we received our first taste of the upcoming album – Rushmere – with the title track song – “Rushmere” (“Rushmere”) And now today – we get our 2nd helping called “Malibu” – ooo, Rushmere – their 5th studio album fully drops on March 28th. (“Malibu”)

• Several quick hits of new music: This would have been a good one for Missed Music Monday – didn’t realize that The Wombats released a full album last week. They did. It’s called “Oh! The Ocean” – you should go listen to it as well. // Fontaines D.C. had one of the best albums of the year for 2024 with the release of Romance. And the Dublin band is already back with a new song: “It’s Amazing To Be Young”. Video arrives over the weekend. // Yet again another band that fell off my radar (“That’s Not My Name”) Well, their name is The Ting Tings and they have a new album coming out next Friday. I missed this song release from last October. A little chill sounding – “Danced on the Wire” (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.

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