Cool New Song, brand new single, first in a while, return to form!!!
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BREAKING NEWS: KNEECAP'S MO CHARA HAS TERROR CHARGES DROPPED ON A TIMING TECHNICALITY IN A LONDON COURT ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2025!!!
UPDATE: THE GOVERNMENT APPEALS THE CHARGES BEING DROPPED.
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BEST NEW SINGLE (TIE): Billy Bragg. "Hundred Year Hunger".
from Billy Bragg's Instagram: "In solidarity with the @GlobalSumudFlotilla which launches this week in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, I'm releasing this new song for Palestine. "Hundred Year Hunger’ looks at the current famine that Israel has created in Gaza through the lens of a century of enforced food insecurity and malnutrition imposed on the Palestinian people, firstly by British imperialism, then as a weapon of mass displacement by the state of Israel..."
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BEST NEW SINGLE (TIE): Neil Young. "Big Crime". Neil's new anti-Trump anthem:
No more great again
No - no more great again
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
Don’t need no fascist rules
Don't want no fascist schools
Don’t want soldiers on our streets
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House...
No - no more great again
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
Don’t need no fascist rules
Don't want no fascist schools
Don’t want soldiers on our streets
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House
There’s big crime in DC at THE White House...
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BEST ARCHIVAL: The Who Live At The Oval 1971
BEST NEW ALBUM (TIE): Bright Eyes. Kids Table (EP).
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BEST NEW ALBUM (TIE): Neko Case. Neon Grey Midnight Green.
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ThisSmallPlanet.com Cool New Music Playlist
Fall/Winter 2025 (September & October & November 2025)
Updated October 26, 2025
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Cool New Singles (With Links To YouTube Videos)
Baxter Dury. "Schadenfreude". Son of Ian Dury who performed "Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll"
The Beths. "Straight Line Was A Lie".
Billy Bragg. "Hundred Year Hunger" Song For Palestine. BEST NEW SINGLE (TIE).
Boko Yout. "Gusto".
Bright Eyes. "Dyslexic Palindrome" (feat Hurray For The Riff Raff)
Chip Kinman. "So Young". He released "I Hate The Rich" with The Dils in 1977.
Courtney Barnett. "Stay In Your Lane". New single, first in a while, return to form, good.
Dry Cleaning. "Hit My Head All Day".
Elias Rønnenfelt. "USA Baby" & "Love How It Feels".
(New album The Mountain out March 20, 2026.)
Hunx And His Punx. "Alone In Hollywood On Acid". Ultra-Queer retro madness.
Jay Som. "What You Need" & "Past Lives" (feat Hayley Williams).
Jeff Tweedy. "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter".
Joyce Manor. "Well, Whatever It Was". Humor detected.
Juliana Hatfield. "Popsicle".
Kiss. "Mistake". A Paul Stanley "country" song recorded by the rockers in 1975 and released in 2025 for the first time.
Madison Cunningham. "Wake" (feat Fleet Foxes).
Margo Price. "Maggie's Farm" (Bob Dylan cover).
The Mary Wallopers. "The Juice". Also liked their album Irish Rock N Roll (2024) and their side project T.P.M.'s 2015 viral hit "All The Boys On The Dole". Their mic was cut recently at the Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, England for refusing to remove a Palestinian flag from their stage (the festival bans all flags and banners).
Mavis Staples. "Beautiful Stranger" (Kevin Morby cover) & "Sad And Beautiful World" (Sparklehorse cover feat MJ Lenderman).
Mitski. "Let My Love Open The Door" (Pete Townshend cover on The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of A Big Bold Beautiful Journey).
Neil Young. "Big Crime" (Neil's new anti-Trump anthem) BEST NEW SINGLE (TIE).
Noise MC. "Cooperative 'Swan Lake'". (2022 anti-Putin anthem, banned in July 2025, sung at protests in October 2025)
Q-Tip & Nas. "The Return" (feat KRS-One & Yasiin Bey AKA Mos Def).
Rodney Crowell. "Rainy Days in California" (feat. Lukas Nelson).
Sean Solomon. "Shooting Star".
Sparks. "Porcupine".
Stella Donnelly. "Feel It Change" & "Year Of Trouble".
Sugar. "House of Dead Memories". Bob Mould's band's first new release in three decades.
Cool New Albums.
Anna Tivel. Animal Poem.
Baxter Dury. Mockingjay.
The Beths. Straight Line Was a Lie.
Big Thief. Double Infinity.
Black Lips. Season Of The Peach.
Bright Eyes. Kids Table EP. BEST NEW ALBUM (TIE)
Cate Le Bon. Michelangelo Dying.
Cory Hanson. I Love People.
Elias Rønnenfelt. Speak Daggers. Former Iceage singer. Should be good. Out October 17, 2025.
Ganser. Animal Hospital.
Geese. Getting Killed.
Glimmer. Get Weak.
The Hives. The Hives Forever Forever The Hives. They're back!
Hunx and His Punx. Walk Out On This World.
Idles. Caught Stealing (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Idles perform four original songs, a cover of Junior Murvin's "Police And Thieves" (immortalized by The Clash), as well as the film's instrumental score. Caught Stealing is directed by Darren Aronofsky, best known for Pi (1998), Requiem for a Dream (2000), The Wrestler (2008), Black Swan (2010), and The Whale (2022). It stars Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Benito A Martínez Ocasio, Carol Kane and Griffin Dunne.
Jay Farrar & Shannon McNally. Don't Ya Take It Too Bad. Uncle Tupelo & Son Volt vet Jay Farrar duets well with Shannon McNally.
Jay Som. Belong. Cool stuff.
Jeff Tweedy. Twilight Override.
Jehnny Beth. You Heartbreaker, You. Rocks hard.
Joan Shelley. Real Warmth. Nice voice.
Johnny Marr. Look Out Live! A nice (live) retrospective of Marr's solo career as well as a few of The Smiths classics. Nice bonus to be able to enjoy these songs without Morrissey, whom many are boycotting because of his bigotry.
King Princess. Girl Violence.
Laura Veirs. Laura Veirs And The Choir Who Couldn't Say (Live In Angouleme).
The Lemonheads. Love Chant.
Margo Price. Hard Headed Woman.
Mark William Lewis. Mark William Lewis.
Marshall Crenshaw. From the Hellhole.
Martin Carthy. Transform Me Then Into A Fish. New album at 84. "Scarborough Fair".
Miles Kane. Sunlight In The Shadows. Kinda retro. Cool.
Neko Case. Neon Grey Midnight Green. BEST NEW ALBUM (TIE)
Of Monsters And Men. All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade.
Portugal. The Man. Shish. Very different. Very interesting.
Richard Ashcroft. Lovin' You.
Robert Plant. Saving Grace.
Rodney Crowell. Airline Highway.
Scott Lavene. Cars, Buses, Bedsits and Shops.
Shame. Cutthroat. Very good album.
Sparks. Madder! (EP). Companion EP to the Mad! LP.
Sprints. All That Is Over. Irish punk band with a female singer are uncompromising.
Suede. Antidepressants. The Original Britpop royals return. The Deluxe Edition has three extra tracks and Mojo curated a cool rarities collection called Outsiders which is quite good.
Sudan Archives. The BPM.
Superchunk. Songs In The Key Of Yikes. Very solid album. Catchy songs.
Toro Y Moi. Unerthed (Hole Erth Unplugged). Nice.
Trombone Shorty & The New Breed Brass Band. Second Line Sunday. Simply great.
Vernon Reid. Hoodoo Telemetry. Virtuoso guitarist from Living Colours steps out solo.
War. Venividiwar. The vets still got somethin' to say.
Water from Your Eyes. It's a Beautiful Place.
Wednesday. Bleeds.
Cool Archival: Reissues & Randoms
Bruce Springsteen. Electric Nebraska 1982 (Expanded Edition). Out October 24, 2025 feat "Born in the U.S.A.".
Buckingham Nicks. Buckingham Nicks. This 1973 release, long out-of-print, a musicians' favorite and cult classic. Soon after its release, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac (you can hear their future here) and the rest, as they say, is history.
Chambawamba. "Bella Ciao". Anti-fascist song in the news.
David Bowie. "Waterloo Sunset" A cover of The Kinks' classic 1967 single, released as bonus track on Reality (2003). "Terry meets Julie at Waterloo Station every Friday night...".
Pictured here with Julie Christie circa 1967.
Gary Numan. BBC Sessions. Recorded in 1979 for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show, it features Numan's classic "Cars".
John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Plastic Ono Band & Elephant’s Memory. Power to the People (The Ultimate Collection). I love this era of John. The Sometime In New York City era. Pure gold. There's a 9-Disc boxset of everything and also a 2-Disc version focusing on the 1972 "One To One" concerts.
Ian Dury. Any excuse to listen to Ian Dury is a good excuse. Start with "Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll" and go from there.
Patti Smith. Horses. The 50th anniversary (if you can believe it) of her classic debut album, feat outtakes and alternate takes and this demo of "Gloria" (Demo, Cover of Van Morrison, kinda).
The Who. Live At The Oval 1971. BEST ARCHIVAL....
And they're still going strong!!!
The Who
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, USA
The Song Is Over: The North American Farewell Tour
Substitute
Who Are You
I Can See for Miles
Long Live Rock
Pinball Wizard
See Me, Feel Me
Another Tricky Day
Behind Blue Eyes
My Generation
Cry If You Want
You Better You Bet
Eminence Front
I'm One
The Real Me
5:15
Love, Reign O'er Me
Going Mobile
Won't Get Fooled Again
Baba O'Riley
The Song Is Over
Tea & Theatre
(Great show!!!)
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Highly Anticipated Cool New Releases
Bob Dylan. Through The Open Window, The Bootleg Series Vol 18, 1956 - 1963. {Sony/Columbia]. October 31, 2025 feat "Boots Of Spanish Leather".
Stella Donnelly. Love And Fortune. November 7, 2025.
Hüsker Dü.1985: The Miracle Year. [Numero Group]. November 7, 2025.
Mavis Staples. Sad and Beautiful World. [Anti-]. November 7, 2025.
The Beatles. Anthology 4. November 21, 2025.
Juliana Hatfield. Lightning Might Strike. [American Laudromat]. December 12, 2025.
Lana Del Rey. Stove. (Previously rumored titles: Classic, The Right Person Will Stay, and Lasso) [Interscope]. Her country album? That's what they say... January 2026?
Dry Cleaning. Secret Love. [4AD]. January 9, 2026.
Zach Bryan. With Heaven on Top. [Warner]. January 9, 2026.
Gorillaz. The Mountain. March 20, 2026.
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MUSICAL NOTES
Really enjoyed Ty Segall's recent "Tiny Desk Concert"!
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Supergrass doing "Strange Ones" live on Jimmy Kimmel.
They're touring to celebrate the 30th anniversary of I Should Coco.
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"H.O.O.D." by Kneecap, live in London, November 21, 2024. This is the concert that rapper Mo Chara (that's his stage name. Real name: Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh) is facing "terrorism" charges for. In the video, he displays a banned Hezbollah flag and says into the mic, "Up Hamas! Up Hezbollah!". It is illegal in the UK to express support for a banned terror group. Hamas (Palestine) and Hezbollah (Lebanon) are both banned terror groups on the UK's proscribed list. Mo Chara is back in court in London on September 26, 2025. Kneecap has subsequently clarified that they do not support Hamas, Hezbollah, or attacks on civilians and have claimed the prosecution is simply another attempt of British authorities to silence an Irish artist, in this case for their support of Palestinian rights. It was a mistake for Mo Chara to say he supported Hamas and Hezbollah at the November 2024 concert. Where they go from here is to be determined.
Gorillaz at Brian Eno's "Together For Palestine" concert.
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NYT: New Banksy Work Seen as Comment on U.K. Crackdown on Palestine Action
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Public Enemy gave a powerful performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel had been taken off the air by ABC/Disney after the FCC's Brendan Carr called for his head on a far-right podcast (by Benny Johnson, who received Russian government funding from Tenet Media to spread disinformation and foment political division in America). Public outcry led to Kimmel being brought back quickly to the airwaves.
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Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) & Alynda Segarra (Hurray For The Riff Raff) duetting on Conor's classic "Lua". Hurray For The Riff Raff was the opening act on part of Bright Eyes' 2025 tour when this duet was captured by a fan. Alynda also duetted with Conor on two songs, "Kids Table" & "Dyslexic Palindrome" from the new Bright Eyes EP Kids Table. Here's Conor & Alynda doing a cover of Blondie's classic pop hit "Dreaming", live in St. Louis on March 22, 2025):
RIP Blondie drummer Clem Burke (
November 24, 1954 – April 6, 2025), a class act.
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Geese doing "Taxes" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live".
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Now we remember how important shows like Kimmel and Colbert are for indie bands in the US. Here's a classic from the criminally underrated Living Colour feat the extraordinary Vernon Reid on guitar. Their 1988 hit "The Cult of Personality" namecheck all the usual suspects like Stalin & Mussolini... but in today's climate, especially on Kimmel, after what happened to Kimmel... you can't help reflect on today's would-be dictators and their cults of personality - Putin, Erdogan, Xi, Modi... and, of course, Our Toddler-In-Chief, Donald Jephoshaphat Trump...
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Hayley Williams. "True Believer" live on The Tonight Show
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Waxahatchee Live on XEXP.
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