Cool New Singles (with links to YouTube videos)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy. "London May" (feat Brit Taylor). Highly anticipated cool new album out in January.
Waxahatchee. "Abandoned" (feat MJ Lenderman)(Lucinda Williams cover). Apple Music Nashville Sessions,
Conor Oberst & Craig Wedren. "Justice To A Scream". The artists behind Bright Eyes & Shudder To Think unite for a cool new song from the soundtrack of a documentary about a trans artist called Alok.
PJ Harvey. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Joy Division cover feat Tim Phillips)(Apple TV's "Big Sister" Season 2 soundtrack)
Bob Dylan. "Don't Fence Me In" (Cole Porter & Robert Fletcher cover) from the soundtrack for Reagan, a new film starring Dennis Quaid about the troubled former president.
Kim Gordon. 'Bangin' On The Freeway" & "ECRP". Bonus tracks from her 2024 release The Collective.
Rev. Gary Davis: "Samson & Deliah", "Baby Let Me Follow You Down", "Cocaine"Cool New Albums
St. Vincent. Todos Nacen Gritando. Spanish version of her 2024 release All Born Screaming. "A" for effort, "A" for execution.
The Cure. Songs Of A Lost World.
Tinariwen. Idrache (Traces Of The Past).Cool Archival Releases
George Harrison. Living In The Material World (50th anniversary 2 CD). A joy to listen to.
Talking Heads. Talking Heads:77 (Super Deluxe Edition 3 CD). Never sounded better.
Stevie Wonder.The Wonder Of Stevie (Audible). Always works.
The Beatles. Beatles '64. To accompany the new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary.
Buckingham Nicks. Buckingham Nicks (1973). Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, at the time a couple and partners in a duo, released this album which so impressed Mick Fleetwood that he invited them to join Fleetwood Mac and the rest is pop history. Hadn't really heard this album before, but inspired by Andrew Bird's 2024 re-interpretation of the album, I decided to give botha listen. Bird, along with his collaborator Madison Cunningham, brings new life to the old album, inspiring looking back while at the same time looking forward.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Flatlanders. All American Music. A 1972 classic also featuring Joe Ely and Butch Hancock.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Four Way Harmonies. Early demos and outtakes.
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The Hard Quartet. The Hard Quartet. Fantastic debut from the latest indie supergroup to grace our shores, The Hard Quartet, featuring Stephen Malkmus (from Pavement), as well as Matt Sweeney, Emmett Kelly, and Jim White, who have played with musicians such as Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Ty Segall, and The Dirty Three. They've released three videos and announced three shows so far: October 10 in L.A. at The Belasco, October 17 at New York's Webster Hall, and October 22 in London at The Electric Ballroom. Candidate for The Best Rock Album Of 2024.
Beth Gibbons. Lives Outgrown. Very ambitious debut solo album for the singer from Portishead. Swings for the fences. Successfully.