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Cool New Music Playlist for Fall/Winter 2023(UPDATED: November 29, 2023)

SONG OF THE MOMENT: Don Letts. "Out of Sync". Black British OG, friends with Bob Marley & Joe Strummer, member of B.A.D. with Mick Jones, shot many of The Clash videos. Got a song to sing. From his debut album.

A. Savage. "Elvis In The Army"

Idles. "Dancer" (feat vocals by LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy & Nancy Whang)

Ty Segall. "Void" and "Eggman" and "My Room"

The Beatles. "Now And Then".

Yard Act. "Dream Job".

Mannequin Pussy. "I Got Heaven"

boygenius (Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker) "The Parting Glass" (traditional, tribute to Sinead O'Connor)

Porno For Pyros. "Agua"

Mary Timony. "Dominoes"

Bonnie "Prince" Billy. "Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You"

The Libertines. "Run Run Run" Return to form.

Kurt Vile. "Another Good Year For The Roses". & "This Time of Night" (Chastity Belt cover)

Brittany Howard. "What Now".

J Mascis. "Can't Believe We're Here".

The Lemonheads. "Fear Of Living"

Gene Clark & Carla Olson. "Set You Free This Time"

Sharon Van Etten. "Close To You" (feat Courtney Barnett) from the TV show The Buccaneers

Car Seat Headrest. "We Looked Like Giants". (Death Cab For Cutie cover).

The Breeders (feat J Mascis). "Divine Mascis". Version of "Divine Hammer" from Last Splash. Previously unreleased and pretty cool.

Jolie Holland. "Highway 72" feat Buck Meek

Scream. "DC Sha La La". Punk vets return. They will rock you.

Johnny Marr. "Somewhere". The Smiths' guitar wizard releases a new song.

Billy Bragg. "Rich Men Earning North of a Million". Answer song to "Rich Men North of Richmond"

Ustad Noor Bakhsh. "

Tor Sor" (Pakistani traditional Benju player)

Big Thief. "I Was Born For Loving You"

Sufjan Stevens. "Will Anybody Ever Love Me?"

ALBUMS

Buck Meek. Haunted Mountain. Big Thief's guitarist's third solo album. Very good.

Black Pumas. Chronicles Of A Diamond.

Dhani Harrison. Innerstanding. Interesting. Unexpected sound(s).

Wilco. Cousin. It's a Wilco album.

Andre 3000. New Blue Sun. An all-instrumental flute-based album? Don't knock it before you try it...

The Coral. Holy Joe's Coral Island Medicine Show.

Laura Veirs. Phone Orphans.

Iron & Wine. Who Can See Forever (Soundtrack)

A. Savage. Several Songs About Fire. Second solo album from Andrew of Parquet Courts. His first solo album was very good and this one is even better, Quite a change of pace from Parquet Court's often manic style. Deep and reflective, like a pool in a Zen garden.

Sufjan Stevens. Javelin. Sounds good. Sadly he's been ill and can't promote the album and also is grieving the tragic loss of his partner. We wish Sufjan the best during these challenging times. UPDATE: Just found 5 Unreleased Songs, apparently outtakes, also very cool.

Open Mike Eagle. Another Triumph of Ghetto Engineering. Intelligent rap.

Wreckless Eric. Leisureland. Surprisingly strong effort from the esteemed veteran author of the 1977 Stiff Records classic "(I'd Go The) Whole Wide World".

Johnny Marr. Spirit Power: The Best of Johnny Marr. An overview of The Smiths' guitarists illustrious solo career, featuring two new songs: "Somewhere" and "The Answer".

Kurt Vile. Back To Moon Beach (EP)

MJ Lenderman. And the Wind (Live and Loose!).

Peter Gabriel. I/O

Toro Y Moi. Sandhills (EP). Folky. Complete departure from the recent funky soulful Mahal. I love it.

Sarah Mary Chadwick. Messages To God. Worth listening to.

Yo La Tengo. The Bunker Sessions (EP)

Don Letts. Outta Sync. Soul song of a veteran Black British punk reggae warrior. His debut album.

Speedy Ortiz. Rabbit Rabbit. Great. Breakthrough album?

Willie Nelson. Bluegrass. National treasure keeps on treasuring'...

Jeff Rosenstock. Hellmode. Strong effort of melodic powerful punk with a lot of heart.

Rome (Jerome Reuter). Gates of Europe. Awesome songs about Ukraine and the conflict there.

Teenage Fanclub. Nothing Lasts Forever.

Jolie Holland. Haunted Mountain.

Sparklehorse. Bird Machine. Strong posthumous album from Mark Linkous. We wish he were here, but are grateful to hear these last songs. Reminds us of why we liked him in the first place.

Kristin Hersh. Clear Pond Road. Very cool album. I liked her recent 50 Foot Wave effort. This is completely different but just as good.

The Kills. God Games.

Mitski. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We. Great! Very cool album of... "dream pop"... says here....

Yungchen Lhamo. One Drop Of Kindness. Enchanting Tibetan singer brings us her special sound, a natural for relaxing, meditation, and more.

Lost Girls. Selvutsletter. Feat. Jenny Hval & Håvard Volden. Light and airy. Full of space.

Bombay Bicycle Club. My Big Day. Features guests Jay Som, Damon Albarn, and Chaka Khan.

Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia Go Deo. A deluxe version of their 2022 release Skinny Fia, feat demos, a live song, an Orbital remix, and two covers, including U2's "One" (which Johnny Cash sang a memorable version of). The uncluttered takes reveal the strength of vocalist Grian Chatten's singing which sometimes gets buried in the heaviness of the band's sound. On Grian's solo album, this year's Chaos For The Fly, feat the single "The Score", we heard his voice, unencumbered, as if for the first time. Nice to hear it again here.

The Drums. Jonny.

Darius Rucker. Carolyn's Boy.

Allah-Las. Zuma 85.

Jane Remover. Census Designated.

L'Rain. I Killed Your Dog.

Duff McKagan. Lighthouse.

boygenius: The Rest EP. Supergroup feat Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker release four new songs. Will it break The Internet? I love them but this is not the kind of music to make you want to light yourself on fire (as Kim Fowley said).

Glen Hansard. All That Was East Is West Of Me Now. I liked the first single, "The Feast Of St. John" a lot. I hoped that the rest of the album would follow suit, and it does. Not all the songs are in the aggressive style as "Feast", but they all have both a gravitas and a lightness that we find appealing.

Devendra Banhart. Flying Wig. Pretty good.

BEST NEW ALBUM: Various Artists. Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick 1958-1971 feat Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, and many more. It's interesting to hear these mostly rural old classics on the same playlist as today's music. Holds up quite well, and fits in remarkably well with the best of today's roots-oriented music.

Mack McCormick and the Folk Revival: Trying to Save The World

Caroline Polachek Tiny Desk Concert:

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ARCHIVAL

The Who. Who's Next: Life House (Super Deluxe). Ten discs of music plus a DVD... sounds a little overwhelming! It was meant to be another rock opera but became Who's Next instead. We can now sort through the rubble and picture what a pretty building it would have been.

The Who. Sleep On The Beach.Live.

The Beatles. The Red (1962 -1966) and Blue (1967 - 1970) Albums. The first Beatles recordings I had were the Red & Blue "greatest hits" collections, on cassette, and I suspect many people were introduced to The Fabs through these compilations. The new improved versions are great and worth checking out.

Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At The Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967

David Bowie. Ziggy's Last Stand. Live.

David Bowie. Dutch Courage. Live.

Hüsker Dü. Tonight Longhorn. Early live shows.

Bob Dylan. The Complete Budokan 1978

Billy Bragg. The Roaring Forty (1983 - 2023). There's a 2 CD version of this Bragg retrospective, but also a 14 CD Super Deluxe version for the super fans. A fitting tribute to one of the brightest political singers of our time.

Devo. 50 Years of De-Evolution 1973–2023.

The Kinks. The Journey Pt. 2

Nirvana. In Utero. (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe). The original album plus over 50 live tracks and a few outtakes and B-sides.

Heatmiser. The Music Of Heatmiser. Elliot Smith's alternative rock band from before.

Steely Dan. The Record Plant 1974 Live. Their best period?

Thin Lizzy. Vagabonds Of The Western World (Deluxe Edition)

Steve Miller Band. J50: The Evolution Of The Joker (Deluxe). Fantastic!

Bob Dylan & The Rolling Thunder Revue. New Orleans 1976 Soundboard. Classic. Dylan + Mick Robson + Joan Baez + Roger McGuinn