Yes, we too have rituals. “The Last Waltz” #cosomusic

🎧 Mourn, "Self Worth". Just enough time to squeeze this one in before an afternoon meeting. High energy indie rock/punk from Barcelona. Air-tight songs and blistering lyrics. Put that in your mug and drink it. #cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 Sleater-Kinney, "Dig Me Out". First album with Janet Weiss on drums. It goes by so fast like one of those hot sweaty gigs in a low-ceiling basement club. Just want the band to keep playing. #cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 The Beastie Boys, "Paul's Boutique". This was the BB album that made music snobs like myself take notice of what these guys were doing. People I greatly respected back then were talking about this album a LOT. Aside from being a control room rat's dream, this is just a damned fun listen. It also pays tribute to a shit-ton of music that came before it. God bless The Beasties. #cosomusic #MPNP

Track listing for "The Whyter Album" (44 minutes)
Glass Onion
Birthday
Dear Prudence
Savoy Truffle
Don't Pass Me By
Happiness is a Warm Gun
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Helter Skelter
Cry Baby Cry
Martha My Dear
Blackbird
I'm So Tired
Back in the USSR
Everybody's Got Something....
I Will

#cosomusic #beatles

🎧 The Beatles, "The Beatles". It's the 54th anny for The White Album. I'm a Beatles fanatic, and this is probably my least favorite proper album. It's too disjointed, they were too distracted, and there's too much filler. So I'm starting the day with my version, "The Whyter Album". Track listing in next post. #cosomusic #MPNP #Beatles

🎧 PJ Harvey, "Dry". With just an overdriven bass and her majestic voice, Polly Jean Harvey's debut album saunters into your speakers and establishes her as a force even before the guitars and drums swoop in. For all of her latter day re-inventions, those first few PJH albums stand together as her raw punk manifesto. #cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 SG Goodman, "Teeth Marks". This is one of those artists that seems to be on the cusp of mainstream success - just needs the right hipster doofus radio station to play that one song. But, like Danielle Ponder and a handful of others, I am both looking forward to and dreading the day this artist breaks through. This is top notch alt-country/americana. Get it. #cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 Pilotdrift, "Water Sphere". Sole release (2005) from this Texas band probably better known for the who signed them (Tim DeLaughter) than for this very ambitious album. It's experimental, space rock, pomp-rock, psychedelic, folk and jazz. Somehow they pulled it together into a cohesive record that recalls early Floyd, Queen, and Flaming Lips. #cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 Doris Duke, "I'm A Loser". Released in 1971 on the Canyon label, this masterwork of soul/r&b songs never found its rightful place in the genre's canon because it was lost to obscurity for decades. It was re-mastered some years ago and sounds amazing. With songs written by Gary "US" Bonds and performed by the Capricorn Studios house band, this is as good as any iconic release from the era in any genre. #cosomusic #MPNP

I think I saw a legend in the making tonight. Danielle Ponder, performing for about 60 people in a basement ballroom, may has well have been in front of 20k at the Garden. I feel privileged to have seen her at the birth of her eventual superstardom. If you haven’t heard her record, and music is important to you, give it a listen. Her songs are socially conscious, empowering, and brutally confessional. And her voice will destroy you. She sings directly to your soul

Danielle. Ponder.
#cosomusic

It must be something in the air because the #cosomusic feed is (((vibrating))) tonight! Well freaking done my fellow music nerds!

🎧 Subsonic Eye, "Melt the Wax". Jangly pop with big choruses, from Singapore. Check it out and $how them $ome love!

https://subsoniceye.bandcamp.com/album/melt-the-wax

#cosomusic #MPNP #newmusicfriday

🎧 First Aid Kit, "Palomino". With their mastery of alt-Americana, it's easy to forget that this band is from Sweden. The new album sees the Söderberg sisters layering a bit of the pop sheen their homeland is so known for over their signature sound. Not so much shades of ABBA, but certainly light strokes. The acoustic guitars still reign supreme, but the harmonies seem bigger and brighter. #cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 Echolyn, "As The World". Building on their early Genesis/Gentle Giant prog model, this was the album that was supposed to make them a neo-prog household name. But their new label offered no support and dropped them. Needless say, as with most prog, the musicianship here is top form, complex (but short) songs, highly conceptual lyrics, YES-like harmonies, neck-breaking time changes. It's all there. There isn't a bad Echolyn record. For the unfamiliar, this is a good start. #cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 Anorak Patch, "By Cousin Sam". From Colchester UK, this VERY young band is getting some attention over there for their unique mix of rock styles. Drawing inspiration from artists like Ravi Shankar, Sonic Youth, and I hear a little "KID A" in there too. The melodies float nicely over the edgy and angular music. I am really loving this EP.

https://niceswanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/by-cousin-sam-ep

#cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 Gladie, "Don't Know What You're In Until You're Out". Released just a few minutes ago! Driving indie-rock/pop from fabulous Philadelphia. Gladie is the new project from Augusta Koch. "I forgot I could be somebody/now the floodgates are open". Good stuff. Available on all the streamers, but throw an indie artists some $$

https://gladie.bandcamp.com/album/dont-know-what-youre-in-until-youre-out

#cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 Elbow, "Little Fictions". Ahhhh, Elbow. One of the handful of bands that have never failed me, musically, lyrically, emotionally. Their music lives and breathes in my head. From the complex rhythmic weave of "Magnificent" all the way to the homey closure of "Kindling" - this record, like almost all of their catalog, has never let me down. #cosomusic #MPNP

🎧 Sigur Ros, "Ágætis Byrjun". A sentimental favorite. This is the record that was playing when my first child was born. His mom had a rough labor with some complications. Her pain reached a fever pitch just as "Svefn-g-englar" peaked. He's 18 now. He says this record is indelibly stamped on his existence. Mine too. #cosomusic #MPNP

#cosomusic #cosocomedy
Huh. Chapelle (down-punching anti-semite/trans-hater) and Louis CK (sexual predator) nominated for grammy’s but Morgan Wallen (racist) ain’t. I guess NARAS has its line of demarcation, eh? (Disclaimer: I am not a fan of any of them and I think the grammys are an industry circle jerk).