Wussy – Inhaler
Fake Fruit – Mucho Distrust
Fake Fruit – Mucho Mistrust
From the Guardian’s Best Songs of 2024 That You Haven’t Heard
This is an Oakland-based band that I haven’t heard either. This is a great track
and a great video
Fake Fruit – “Mucho Mistrust” (Official Music Video)
some of the lyrics
Wishin’ that there was a way
For me to surgically stake
A sign right through my heart
Flashing neon, Gone fishing
Proceed with caution
Do not enter, Pass with care
Not for sale, Buyer beware
Rough road, Dead end
Out of office, Wrong way
Detour, Railroad crossing
Hot price, Clearance
No passing, Private property
Horse crossing, Buy one get one
We buy gold, Live nude girls girls girls
Construction, Liquidation
Pitchfork likes them and gives this a 7.6
When she was 18, Hannah D’Amato auditioned for a spot at the Berklee College of Music. Midway through her audition, one of the male judges walked up to her guitar amp and lowered the volume knob. Demoralized and insulted, D’Amato decided to bypass the prestigious institution and start a band on her own. Thus the origin story of Fake Fruit, the Bay Area punk trio she’s been fronting over several incarnations since 2016.
It’s all brought together by the frontwoman Hannah D’Amato’s vocals, which oscillate between deadpan detachment and fiery urgency, mirroring a lyrical exploration of doubt and disconnection that’s both deeply personal and universally resonant. It’s the standout from a remarkably consistent batch of a dozen stripped-down songs where the second side may be better than the first. Bryan Armen Graham
Jasmine.4.t – Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation
another great track from The Guardian’s Best New Music of 2025
a little bit about the band
Jasmine.4.T is the stage name of a four-piece British indie rock band based in Manchester, England, who are currently signed to Saddest Factory Records.[1] Lead vocalist Jasmine is the first British musician to be signed to the label.[2]
In 2019, Jasmine.4.T self-released their debut EP titled Worn Through.[4] Then, after having opened for Lucy Dacus on tour, Jasmine decided to submit some demos to Lucy’s boygenius bandmate Phoebe Bridgers record label, Saddest Factory Records. After submitting the demos, Dacus said “Okay, I just played your demos for Phoebe [Bridgers] in the car; She’s on the phone to her manager, trying to work out how she can sign you”.[5] After signing to the label, she released a new single titled “Skin On Skin”, featuring Julien Baker and produced by Boygenius.[2]
jasmine.4.t – Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation (Official Video)
More from The Guardian on their origin story and connection to boy genius
One to watch: jasmine.4.t – The Manchester-based singer-songwriter emerges from a seismic few years with a gorgeous debut album produced by US supergroup Boygenius
Back in 2016, little-known lo-fi singer-songwriter Jasmine Cruickshank was picked by US artist Lucy Dacus to open her European tour; in the same year, Dacus met her future Boygenius bandmate Julien Baker. Almost a decade later, things came full circle when Dacus turned her other Boygenius pal, Phoebe Bridgers, on to the music of the Manchester-based artist now known as jasmine.4.t, who promptly became the first UK signing to Bridgers’s label Saddest Factory (also home to Muna and Claud). All three members of Boygenius co-produced Cruickshank’s forthcoming debut album, You Are the Morning.
Mother Mother -Explode!
I think I just heard this on the radio. Great catchy song from a band I don’t think we have played much or maybe at all.
Crazy video and I love the vocals!!
Mother Mother – Explode! (Official Music Video)
When I die (Whеn I die), I’ll let go (I’ll let go)
But in my life (In my life), I’ll hold on until there’s nothing left to hold
And then you know I’ll just
Explode
I’ll explode
I’ll just explode
I’ll explode
Until there’s nothing left to blow
Their new album has came out a few days ago. This is what is being written about it
The new music video, for the track Explode!, is taken from the Canadian indie rock band’s upcoming new album, Grief Chapter, (their 9th album) which was released today.
Speaking about the new song, vocalist/guitarist Ryan Guldemond says, “this song is about the desire to live so fully that one becomes overzealous and manic about it. There’s a fear-based element within striving so hard: fear of death, fear of time running out, and fear of not doing enough. Thus, we end up doing too much and, in turn, getting tired, losing our ability to be present, and ultimately never finding peace.”
This band has been around since 2005 and are from BC
Mother Mother is a Canadian indie rock band based on Quadra Island, British Columbia. The band consists of Ryan Guldemond on guitar and vocals, Molly Guldemond and Jasmin Parkin on vocals and keyboard, Ali Siadat on drums, and Mike Young on bass.
Perfect Genius – It’s a Mirror
Perfume Genius – “It’s a Mirror” (Official Music Video)
Taken from ‘Glory,’ the new album from Perfume Genius out March 28 on Matador Records
Pitchfork features It’s a Mirror as one of the best new tracks of 2025 (what are the others??)
As Perfume Genius, Mike Hadreas boasts a Madonna-like gift for transformation. There was the boardroom diva of 2014’s Too Bright, the rococo Victorian dandy of 2018’s No Shape, and the dirt-streaked Tom of Finland homages of 2020’s Set My Heart on Fire Immediately; now, as toxic masculinity and toxic nationalism become ever more inextricable, he’s gone Hells Angel. In the music video for “It’s a Mirror,” the lead single from his forthcoming new album, Glory, Hadreas dons a leather racing jacket, drinks gasoline, and straddles a Harley.
a little info
Michael Alden Hadreas (born September 25, 1981), better known by his stage name Perfume Genius, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Hadreas’s music explores topics including sexuality, his personal struggle with Crohn’s disease, domestic abuse,[4] and the dangers faced by gay men in contemporary society.[5]
His 7th album Glory is coming out in March – one further note – The album, set to be released on March 28, 2025, was produced by Blake Mills, co-written with Hadreas’s partner Alan Wyffels, and features artists including Aldous Harding, Jim Keltner, Meg Duffy, and Gregory Uhlmann.[33] Jim Keltner, really??
There is a second video from this album – No Front Teeth.
The clip starts with Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas splayed out on an ice rink as several onlookers check on him. Harding then appears in a witch hat and a firefighter outfit before the clip cuts to a kitchen where Harding strips down to a sheer white dress and begins to… make waffles. And that only covers the first half, after which there’s a sex scene, a home invasion, and a blue-tinted outro replete with living room wrestling and a make-out session.
pretty dramatic stuff!
Wussy – “Inhaler” – Cincinnati Ohio
Wussy is a Ohio band that has been around since the turn of the millennium. COVID and a band member’s death put a pause on their activities but they returned last year with a 7th album, Cincinnati, Ohio.
We old fellas have chosen this monumental track for your listening pleasure.
Boy Golden – “KD and Lunch Meat”- Church of Better Daze
Boy Golden is the stage name of Liam Duncan, Winnipeg based singer-songwriter. To quote a press release, “ he began creating the Boy Golden persona to present a more easygoing and positive-minded brand of music. “
Our selected tune certainly falls in this category.
KD and Lunch Meat live!
Jordan Klassen – “Niko “– Glossolalia
B.C. is strongly represented in this edition as next up is Vancouver based Jordan Klassen. He released his solo debut Tempest and Winter in 2009 and has been busy ever since touring and releasing music. Niko is about observing a friend slip into a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. the song deals with finding out that someone that you know and love is buying in to nutty theories so he is “pleading my case that the earth is in fact round.”
young friend – “boyfriend material” – Motorcycle Sound Effects
Well well well,… We have another artist from the Lower Mainland! young friend is the moniker of Vancouver’s Drew Tarves. He is a JUNO-nominated artist who returns with, “a sexy, sleazy new song + video, “boyfriend material.” Songwriter revives his buoyant, love-struck crooner persona with this bluesy, slacker-rock song.”
Jack White – “Archbishop Harold Holmes” – No Name
Jack Black of course, was the guitarist and lead singer of the incredibly successful rock duo the White Stripes. After the band broke up, White had success with his solo career, subsequent collaborations, and business ventures.
No Name is his sixth studio album. It’s a nice blend of garage rock and and punk blues. Medium Magazine gives an in depth look at our selected track Archbishop Harold Holmes.
How’s this for freshness? Jack White performing our selection a mere 4 days ago in Boston!
Whole-Hearted 
Leave a comment