Some mixes have a theme, others start off slow and work to a crescendo, and others are a conglomerate of sweet and savory tracks mixed in with rye crispy things. Sorry, I'm writing this right before lunch.
I tried to corrall all of the new (ish) things I'm listening to into one mix. Hopefully everone finds something they enjoy in this mix! Hope everyone is staying safe out there. Happy listening! AB
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Menahan Street Band / Devil's Respite
Absolutely love this band - it makes for great dinner music. I would recommend this new album or their album "Make the road by Walking"
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The Menahan Street Band is a collaboration of musicians from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (Dave Guy, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), El Michels Affair (Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) and The Budos Band (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), brought together by musician/producer Thomas Brenneck (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Budos Band, Amy Winehouse) to record hits in the bedroom of his Menahan St. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Chicano Batman / Color my Life
A great album by Chicano Batman. I look forward to listening to their other albums.
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Originally the trio of Bardo Martinez, Eduardo Arenas and Gabriel Villa and now a quartet with Carlos Arévalo, Chicano Batman themselves as ethnomusicologists and say that they draw upon a broad range of 60s and 70s influences. Oliver Wang describes their music as "a mesh of Brazilian bossa nova and samba with spacey psychedelia with slow jam soul with surf rock cumbia." Read more on Last.fm more...
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Caroline Rose / Feel the way I want
Song of the summer 2021 - in case you didn't know. It's worth watching the video to understand Caroline Rose's whole thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3EwDk1zY6g
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Caroline Rose is an American singer and songwriter raised in Center Moriches, Long Island, New York, and currently living in Burlington, Vermont. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Bahamas / Trick to Happy
Another great album by Afie Jurvanen. The album is a look back at his life as he turns 40.
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Bahamas is Canadian musician Afie Jurvanen (born April 28, 1981, in Toronto). Jurvanen isn’t from the Bahamas; he’s a Finnish-Canadian raised in Barrie (a working class town in rural Ontario). Since 2009 he’s been making music under the name Bahamas--writing songs about sunsets, love affairs, and making out with crooked smiles. Through simple arrangements, he charts an escape route from the snow belt to the coral reefs. His album, Barchords, was released in 2012 to critical praise: Read more on Last.fm more...
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Mac Miller / Good News
The album Circles was released in 2020 posthumously after Mac Miller's death in 2018. The album was finished in his absence by Jon Brion who mixed all of the music around his recorded vocals. Its a great album that once I got into it, I couldn't stop listening.
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Malcolm McCormick, also known by his stage name Mac Miller, was an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was also a noted record producer under the pseudonym Larry Fisherman. Raised Jewish and teaching himself music from a young age, McCormick defied the stereotypes of hip-hop and released his first mixtape under the name EZ Mac, titled "But My Mackin' Ain't Easy" in 2007, when McCormick was only fifteen. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Aldous Harding / The Barrel
A new artist for me - just diving in and love what I hear.
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Aldous Harding (Hanna Claynails Harding) is a singer/songwriter from Lyttelton, New Zealand. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Faye Webster / A Dream with a baseball player
Another great new album from Faye Webster...
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Faye Webster is an American folk singer and photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Webster was first signed to Awful Records, with whom she released her sophomore self-titled album in 2017. Webster signed to the record label Secretly Canadian in late 2018 and released her second full-length album, Atlanta Millionaires Club, in 2019. After attending Nashville’s Belmont University for a semester, the Atlanta-native decided to pursue a music career back home. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Arooj Aftab / Mohabbat
New artist for me - love this song.
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An aspiring young musician from Lahore, Pakistan, Arooj Aftab is currently pursuing a degree in Music Production and Engineering at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts. Arooj hopes that four years of intense music study will allow her to develop her passion and talent and grant her the hands-on experience she needs. Arooj is also very sensitive to global issues. She speaks openly for betterment of social issues in her country and around the world. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Weather Station / Tried to tell you
I've been trying to get into Weather Station for a while and this song has a great build to it.
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The Weather Station is a Canadian folk music band fronted by Tamara Lindeman, formed in 2006. It is said that the Weather Station was born in a closet. One day, Tamara Lindeman sat down to make music she had never heard. Using her banjo, her voice, a borrowed microphone, and a selection of percussive household items, Tamara taught herself to write, then to record. Slowly she cut together her musical exploration of loss and everything that comes along with it. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Sturgill Simpson / Ol' Dood (Part 1)
If you know me, then you know that occasionally I get the urge to Sturg'. This is an awesome concept album that progresses around the story of Ol' Dude and his fight to get the love of his life back. Fun album and great listen.
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John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music and roots rock singer-songwriter. Simpson was born in Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, the only child of a secretary and a state policeman who formerly worked undercover narcotics. Due to his father's work, Simpson's family moved to Versailles, outside Lexington, where Simpson graduated from Woodford County High School. Simpson's mother's family were coal miners. Simpson is the first male on his mother's side of the family to not work in a strip mine or deep mine. Read more on Last.fm more...
