Happy Thursday, everyone.
Yes, it is Thursday, even I’m losing track at times, but it’s time to
shine a spotlight on some new music releases available at 9:00 pm PDT. Before that, I’d like to get into some
musical stuff I found out about in the last week. Spotify has apparently changed their shuffle
rules regarding albums, I can’t go into the album and select tracks to go into
my personal playlist of new music (which I call “Unheard” for obvious reasons),
I can only do that with tracks from the playlists that already exist on
Spotify. This means I’ll have to set aside
time for each release individually, rather than listen to them all shuffled
together. It’s not a terrible thing,
it’s just frustrating to have to do something new after 15 months of doing it
one way.
Last week, Katy Perry also announced a new album called
Smile; the cover features her dressed as a clown complete with a round red nose
and white makeup. She’s released several
singles since I’ve been on Spotify and the title track to this album is easily
the best single she’s released for this album. Also, Black Stone Cherry teamed with Monster Truck to make a protest song under the name The Cherry Truck Band called "Love Become Law." It's always refreshing to see people from the South take up Social Justice, reminding us that stereotyping everyone in the red states as racist and homophobic is inaccurate, there are quite a few white people there who care about the problems people not like them face, in fact, that was the point of "Sweet Home Alabama," to remind Neil Young that not every person in Alabama was racist, mostly just those who loved the governor at the time. There are also new WWE entrance themes for Bayley and Liv
Morgan I didn’t know about until Sunday and both are great pieces of
music. Both women are among my favorite
wrestlers in the sport and it’s nice to hear new music for when they head out
to the ring. My all-time favorite is
still “The Truth Reigns” for Roman Reigns, however. On Tuesday night, Joan Jett’s track from the Marc
Bolan/T-Rex Tribute album due out in September, previously mentioned in Kesha’s
bio back in June, was released. Kesha
did “Children of the Revolution” and Joan Jett’s done “Jeepster,” which I
previously heard recorded by the Hollywood Vampires, a supergroup formed by
Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp.
The Vampires’ version was louder, but this version confirmed “Girl I’m
just a Vampire for your love” wasn’t a lyric change Alice Cooper made for the
supergroup, and Joan Jett delivers the lyrics very well, making it another
great cover.
On a comedic note, I didn’t know Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop The
Music” by that title until Sunday, I had first heard it at a San Francisco
Giants game in 2010 and misheard “Please don’t stop the music” as “Weasels at
the movies.” I knew those weren’t the
actual lyrics, but since I didn’t know what the real ones, finding the song was
impossible (especially since I didn’t know what would happen if you asked a
music store employee “what’s the song that sounds like it’s saying ‘weasels at
the movies?’”). Thankfully, Spotify
suggested it for a Pop Music playlist, I put it in “Unheard” and finally
figured out what the words were.
Admittedly though, sharing the story on Facebook gave me a lot of joy,
with comments like “I like yours better, it raises questions like ‘what kind of
movies do weasels like?’” and “Pitch this to Disney.” (I especially like this,
because every time I misheard the lyrics, I thought of “Who Framed Roger
Rabbit”)
Without further delay, here are the major releases I’m
looking forward to this week.
The Aces: Under My Influence-I don’t know much about this
group, but the album art suggests they are four young women and they released a
great LGBTQ+ love song from this album called “Kelly.” They have other enticing song titles for this
album like “My Phone is Trying To Kill Me.”
“Kelly” presents a nice upbeat pop sound that sounds good for dancing
and has a great drum beat and a nice guitar line and I hope to hear more songs
like that on this album.
The Dead Daisies: The Lockdown Sessions-This is a 4-track
Live EP performed by The Dead Daisies, recorded semi-recently with new lead
singer/bassist Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple/Black Country Communion/Kings of
Chaos/2 tracks on Billy Ray Cyrus’ Thin Line album). This will feature Glenn Hughes’ debut single
with the band “Righteous Days,” as well as him singing Creedence Clearwater
Revival’s Classic “Fortunate Son” and Humble Pie’s “30 Days in the Hole.” I’m guessing this EP may have been recording
and mixed through online chat collaborations due to the pandemic, but since
music releases have kept being released and there have been very few slow
weeks, it seems to be working.
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