Deja Voodoo- Cheese and Crackers (m.youtube.com)
Magenta - Wonderous Stories [soft progrock] (Yes cover) (www.youtube.com)
Song of the Day: Heroin by The Velvet Underground & Nico (youtu.be)
ZEAL & ARDOR - Clawing out (www.youtube.com)
Alt-Country/Americana ("Roots Rock" if you want to drill down even more): Steve Earle - Guitar Town (www.youtube.com)
Steve Earle’s entire career posits the question: What if that slightly cringey try-hard kid that kept coming around were actually a world-class talent in his own right?...
Laibach - Nova Akropola [1985, Slovenia, Martial Industrial, Industrial] (www.youtube.com)
MusicBrainz: musicbrainz.org/…/c779e090-909f-4403-a90e-c1d08cd…...
Fat White Family - Touch The Leather (Official Video) (www.youtube.com)
Peggy Lee - Me And My Shadow (youtu.be)
“The Spark” - Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew (www.youtube.com)
Primary school kids from Ireland make a banger....
Asian Dub Foundation - "No Fun Feat Iggy Pop" (Official Audio) (www.youtube.com)
Pete & Bas - Bish Bash Bosh (www.youtube.com)
Number One Popstar - Dance Away the Pain (youtu.be)
Allah-Las - Ela Navega (youtu.be)
Alt-Country/Americana: Dublin Blues. Guy Clark. (www.youtube.com)
If Townes Van Zandt is the Bob Dylan of highly literate country-adjacent songwriters, his buddy Guy Clark is the Springsteen. Maybe a little less transcendently brilliant, but more straightforward about the human condition, you might say “efficiently poetic” maybe, and with a better ear for what will sell and a less publicly...
Fleur de Malheur - Plastiktüte [2024, Acoustic] (www.youtube.com)
Discogs: www.discogs.com/de/…/14142685-Fleur-de-Malheur
Alt-Country/Americana: Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty (Live in Austin, 1975) (www.youtube.com)
Casual live performance from an old documentary. A few minor lyrical tweaks for those who know the song well, but a lovely performance from probably the iconic Texas troubadour.
Song of the Day: Booty by Erykah Badu (youtu.be)
my god the snare sound is magnificent
The Judybats - She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) [alternative rock/psychedelic rock] (1967 original/1990 cover) (The 13th Floor Elevators cover) (www.youtube.com)
Louis Cole - Things Will Fall Apart [Orchestral Funk, 2024] (youtube.com)
Louis Cole (KNOWER) collaborates with the Metropole Orchestra again. Banger of a song with great orchestration IMO.