I’d like to rest my heavy head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I’d like to lay my weary bones tonight
On a bed of California stars
I’d love to feel your hand touching mine
And tell me why I must keep working on
Yes, I’d give my life to lay my head tonight
On a bed of California stars
I’d like to dream my troubles all away
On a bed of California stars
Jump up from my starbed and make another day
Underneath my California stars
They hang like grapes on vines that shine
And warm the lovers glass like friendly wine
So, I’d give this world just to dream a dream with you
On our bed of California stars
Cool New Singles (with links to YouTube)
Alex Orange Drink. "Everything Is Broken"
The Beths."Metal".
Brian Jonestown Massacre. "Makes Me Great" & "Out Of Body".
Bright Eyes & Cursive. "Recluse I Don't Have To Love"
Brittany Howard. "Pale, Pale Moon". (from the Sinners soundtrack)
David Byrne. "Everybody Laughs"
Dropkick Murphys. "Who Will Stand With Us" (Unreleased Live) & "Sirens" & "Who Will Stand With Us"
Elias Ronnenfelt. "Carry-On Bag".
Fiona Apple. "Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)" & "Heart Of Gold" (Neil Young cover)
Fontaines D.C. "It's Amazing To Be Young" & "Before You I Just Forget" & "In Heaven"
The Hard Quartet. "Lies (Something You Can Do)" (feat Pavement's Stephen Malkmus)
Hurray For The Riff Raff. "Pyramid Scheme"
Janie Ian & Joan Baez. "One In A Million". Cool, new protest anthem.
Jill Sobule. "Underdog Victorious" (from a musical F*ck 7th Grade being developed by the late singer/songwriter, who died recently in a tragic house fire)
Juan Wauters. "If It's Not Luv"
Kim Gordon. "Bye Bye 25!"
Kinky Friedman. "Poet Of Motel 6"
Lana Del Rey. "Henry, Come On" & "Bluebird"
The Lemonheads. "Deep End".
MJ Lenderman. "Dancing In The Club" (This Is Lorelei cover)
Manu Chao & Juliana Linhares. "Melo Do Bode" (Mestre Vieira cover)
Mavis Staples. "Godspeed" (Frank Ocean cover).
The Minus 5. "Blow In My Bag" & "Let the Rope Hold, Cassie Lee"
The Molotovs. "More More More"
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts. "Let's Roll Again"
The New Pornographers. "Ballad Of The Last Payphone"
Paul Weller. "Lady Rolla".
Pulp. "Got To Have Love".
Pup. "Get Dumber" (feat Jeff Rosenstock)
Richard Ashcroft. "Lover". Inspired by Joan Armatrading's "Love And Affection".
Shame. "Cutthroat".
Sleater-Kinney. "Kids In America" (Kim Wilde cover, live on John Mulaney)
Sparks. "Drowned In A Sea Of Tears"
St. Vincent. "DOA" (Death Of A Unicorn soundtrack)
Suede. "Disintegrate".
Ty Segall. "Fantastic Tomb" & "Possession"
Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill. "A Thousand Times"
Wavves. "Goner" & "Lucky Stars"
Wednesday. "Elderberry Wine". (feat MJ Lenderman on backing vocals & guitar)
Wet Leg. "Catch These Fists" & "CPR"
Cool New Albums
Aesop Rock. Black Hole Superette. Something different and interesting and cool.
Alan Sparhawk. With Trampled By Turtles. Former Low frontman collab with Trampled By Turtles works on many levels.
Alpha Blondy. Rise. From Africa's Ivory Coast. He's the best. Loved his 1986 "Jerusalem" and love his 2025 iteration too.
Aterciopelados. Genes Rebeldes.
Bells Larsen. Blurring Time. Extraordinary document. Larsen is a trans male artist who recorded these songs once before hormone therapy, and once after, then mixed the two versions together. The gender-affirming treatment caused Larsen's voice to deepen considerably, so he is essentially duetting with his former self. The effect is mesmerizing.
Ben Kweller. Cover the Mirrors.
Bill Medley. Straight From The Heart. (The iconic vocalist from The Righteous Brothers)
Bob Mould. Here We Go Crazy. Former Husker Du frontman back with a solid album.
Butler, Blake And Grant. Butler, Blake And Grant. Three Britpop legends hook up.
Car Seat Headrest. The Scholars.
Charlie Musselwhite. Look Out Highway. Legendary blues harmonica player still going strong.
Elbow. Audio Vertigo Echo (Elbow EP 5).
Elton John & Brandi Carlile. Who Believes In Angels?
Ezra Furman. Goodbye Small Head.
Femi Kuti. Journey Through Life. Another classic from Nigerian musical royalty, Femi Kuti, the son of Fela Kuti, featuring fresh, vibrant re-workings of previously released songs.
Garbage. Let All That We Imagine Be the Light.
Jenny Hval. Iris Silver Mist. Beautiful singing.
Julien Baker & Torres. Send A Prayer My Way. Best damned singin' lesbian cowgirls out there.
Lucy Dacus. Forever Is A Feeling.
Lyle Workman. Fight For Freedom. One of the most creative guitarists out there. I know him best from Frank Black's Teenager Of The Year, which had a wonderful reunion tour recently.
The Mars Volta. Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacío. Cool, spacey.
Marianne Faithfull. Burning Moonlight [EP]
Martha Wainwright. 6 Songs.
The Minus 5. Oar On, Penelope! Love it!
Morcheeba. Escape The Chaos. British trip-hoppers are not my usual fare but this is cool.
Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts. Talkin To The Trees.
Pavement. Pavements. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peggy Seeger. Teleology. The 89-year-old legend returns with a strong new album.
Peter Doherty. Felt Better Alive. A Libertine goes solo with some cool new songs.
Sparks. Mad! The Brothers Are Back.
Suzanne Vega. Flying With Angels. Vincent Vega's folk-singing cousin.
Tune-Yards. Better Dreaming.
The Waterboys. Life, Death And Dennis Hopper.
Youssou N'Dour. Eclairer Le Monde (Light The World). Senegal's finest.
Musical Notes
Bob Dylan's Neverending Tour 2025: The Outlaw Tour with Willie Nelson
Brother and sister team Mathew Cartlidge and Issey Cartlidge make up The Molotovs, who are capturing a lot of attention in the UK and beyond with their electrifying retro take on rock. This is their debut single "More More More".
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Pavement on Colbert: "Harness Your Hopes"
Indie favorites Pavement played on Colbert and released a film, Pavements:
Amyl And The Sniffers Live On The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon: "Tiny Bikini"
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Saw Bob Mould perform with Husker Du at UCLA in 1984 and been a fan ever since. His new album rocks. Here he is doing one of the new songs on "The Tonight Show".
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Fontaines D.C. just released a mash-up of their song "Starburster" with "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)", written by the late, great filmmaker David Lynch for his 1977 film Eraserhead.
Here's The Pixies deconstructing it in 1988 at a Peel Session:
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Random & Reissued
The Beach Boys. "All I Wanna Do"
Jeff Bridges. Slow Magic, 1977-1978. The actor, best known as "The Big Lebowski", recorded this in 1977-1978 with some friends (including actor Burgess Meredith) and it's pretty good.
The Hollies. "Stop Stop Stop".
The Roches. The Roches.
Sly & The Family Stone. Sly Lives! (AKA The Burden Of Black Genius). Mega-Classics.
Ted Lucas. Ted Lucas. Interesting folkish album from back in the day, rediscovered.
The Who. The Best Of & Greatest Hits Live Broadcast Collection. The Best.
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