A very quick new music weekly after a two day music festival. Most likely missed a lot of good stuff.
New Melissa Carper is the album of the week. I’m a long time fan and this again such a great album. New Beachwood Sparks album is also a very big deal. Other big album releases came from Kiely Connell, Goodnight, Texas, David Quinn, Caleb Stine, Elijah Ocean, Carson McHone (cover EP), Eric McEntee (EP), Lance Howell, Blaine Todd, Wila Frank (EP) and Once Great Estate (this last one is a month old).
Quiet on the Finnish side of things. There’s a great new Ocelot single though. And I also included earlier 2024 single from Pelkkä Poutanen. A new one for me, but loved the concert yesterday at Ilmiö Festival and therefore included it now.
New Gillian Welch & David Rawlings song is the international single of the week. Other early faves came from Flora Hibberd, Max Bien Kahn, Rachel Brooke, India Ramey, Holy Matter, Hannah Juanita, Teenage Tom Petties, Andrew Combs and Lea Thomas. Again just to name a few.
That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Next weekend there probably won’t be a new music weekly. My vacation plans are still up in the air, but I probably won’t have enough time to do this. If that’s the case, I’ll again try to cover two weeks with the next one. Love love love.
1. Melissa Carper – Let’s Stay Single Together (Borned in Ya, Mae Music / Thirty Tigers)
2. Kiely Connell – Coming Up Empty (My Own Company, Calumet Queen / Thirty Tigers)
3. Beachwood Sparks – Gem (Across the River of Stars, Curation Records)
4. Goodnight, Texas – The Offer (Signals)
5. David Quinn – Dear New York (Young Love)
6. Elijah Ocean – Loser’s Holiday (Loser’s Holiday)
7. Caleb Stine – 14 Miles (When I Was a Cowboy)
8. Carson McHone – It’s Alright Now (ODES EP, Merge Records)
9. Eric McEntee – I’m Not Bothered By The Rain (New Moons EP, Pacific Unions Records)
10. Lance Howell – Little White Lies (Last Living Legend)
11. Blaine Todd – Wild Desperation (Goodbye ‘Til I Do Good By You)
12. Once Great Estate – Ghosts (Goodbye Cody Scarp, Shire Sounds)
13. Wila Frank – Agua Verde (Agua Verde EP)
14. Flora Hibberd – Canopy (single, 22TWENTY)
15. Max Bien Kahn – Flowers (single, Well Kept Secret)
16. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Empty Trainload of Sky (single, Acony Records)
17. Rachel Brooke – The One Who Got Away (single, MAL)
18. India Ramey – The Mountain (single, Mule Kick Records)
19. Hannah Juanita – Honky Tonkin’ For Life (single)
20. Pony Bradshaw – The Long Man (single, Black Mountain Music / Soundly Music)
21. Jobi Riccio – Instead (single, Yep Roc)
22. Holy Matter – Prince Gloom (single, Royal Oakie Records)
23. Lea Thomas – The Gift (single, Triple Dolphin Records)
24. Pelkkä Poutanen – Kosto (single, Eclipse Music)
25. Ocelot – Prinssi/Pikkuveli (single, Soliti)
26. Little Mystery – As It Seems (single, Ruination Record Co)
27. Teenage Tom Petties – Night Nurse (single, Safe Suburban Home x Repeating Cloud)
28. New Starts – A Little Stone (single, Fika Recordings)
29. Maxwell Stern feat Ratboys – How’d You Find Me (single, Lauren Records)
30. Daryll-Ann – Everything I Knew (single, Excelsior Recordings)
31. The Reds, Pinks and Purples – My Toxic Friend (single, Burundi Cloud)
32. Mike Viola – Rock of Bottom (single, Lojinx)
33. Laura Jane Grace – Karma Too Close (single, Total Treble)
34. The Heavy Heavy – Because You’re Mine (single, ATO Records)
35. Kasey Anderson – Back to Nashville (single, Nervous Kid Records)
36. Jeffrey Foucault – Solo Modelo (single, Fluff and Gravy Records)
37. Smith and Tegio – It Ain’t Easy..Being Sleazy (single)
38. Justin Townes Earle – Appalachian Nightmare (demo) (single, New West Records)
39. JP Harris – To the Doves (single, Bloodshot Records)
40. Golden Everything – Steel City Blues (single, Rancho Deluxe Records)
41. Andrew Combs – The Sea In Me (single, Loose Music)
42. Jana Pochop – The Architect + The Artist (single, Patient Grasshopper Music)
43. Wild Ponies – Love You Right Now (single, No Evil Records)
44. Gold Star Gold Star – Anything You Want Me To Be (single)
45. Well Well Well – Sunset Cliffs (single, Roayl Oakie Records)
46. John Blek – Country Mile (single, Bigger River Recording Co)
47. Woog Riots – Riverboat to Amsterdam (single, From Lo-Fi To Disco!)
48. Freya Josephine Hollick – Rhinestone Cowboy (single, Cheersquad Records & Tapes)
49. Alicia Blue feat Lucinda Williams – Tennessee (single, Tone Tree Music)
50. Idanha – Eastbound Westbound (single)
51. Ben Arsenault – Too Late (Make Way For This Heartache)
52. Ben Vallee – Besides Myself (Introducing..)
53. Rainy Eyes – Faded Away (Lonesome Highway, Royal Potato Family)
54. West of Roan – The Beran (Queen of Eyes, Spinster)
55. Maya De Vitry – Watching the Whole Sky Change (The Only Moment, Mad Maker Studio)
A few Bandcamp cuts for the lovely non-streamers:
Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you
I’ll make the playlist on Spotify and then transfer it to other platforms. This means a few tracks might be missing from the from the other platforms, if they are not available there. Oh and there’s a bunch of older episodes on my Spotify profile, if you miss an episode or want to revisit.
If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each weekend.