Noah Cyrus, Orville Peck – Love is a Canyon
Julia-Sophie – Lose My Mind
Morgan Nagler – Grassoline
Arctic Monkeys – Opening Night
Karan Aujla, Ikky – For a Reason
Sophie May – Another Song For the End of the World
Wednesday – Elderberry Wine (47)
Beaches – I Ran (So Far Away)
Habib Koite, Jackson Brown, Artists for Peace and Justice – Koulandian
Karan Aujla, Ikky – For a Reason
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Who Is Karan Aujla? Get to Know the History-Making TikTok JUNO Fan Choice Winner
Again, didn’t know Karan Aujla but I found this song he recorded with his producer Ikky and liked it. Obviously he is well liked by Canadian Tik Tok people as he won a Juno in 2024
His vibrant and energetic performance of “Admiring You” and “Softly” alongside producer Ikky had the entire country dancing, cheering, and asking themselves, “Who is Karan Aujla?”
Junos on CBC
Here is the 2024 Junos – great speech by Aujla. “Sometimes I just can’t believe I’m that same kid that lost his parents when he was in India. You know, made my way out to Canada, this beautiful country – and today I’m here.”
Karan Aujla wins The 2024 TikTok JUNO Fan Choice Award | The 2024 JUNO Awards
Here is his video for the song selected this week For a Reason
For A Reason (Official Video) Karan Aujla | Tania | Ikky | Latest Punjabi Songs 2025
Noah Cyrus, Orville Peck – Love is a Canyon
pretty creepy video, but a great song
No big music mags carrying this so, not a high profile thing. Still a great song, a beautiful voice and 25 year old sister of Miley.
Noah Cyrus comes from a family of talented musicians, but her latest single proves she’s capable of standing out from the Cryus clan. No longer just Miley’s sister, the singer released her second studio album, I Want My Loved Ones to Go with Me, on July 11. This week, she released the track “Love Is A Canyon” as a duet with country singer Orville Peck.
The gentle vocals and melody captured fans instantly, underscoring that musicality doesn’t just run—it soars—through the Cyrus family line. At 25, Noah’s carries a heavy music legacy, but she wears it lightly, channeling her own sound with the confidence of someone born for this.
Her dad was also big in music – His biggest hit was “Achy Breaky Heart,” which topped the Country Charts and reached #4 on the Hot 100.
all from a magazine called Screen Rant
Morgan Nagler – Grassoline
This is just one of those songs and artists I found, don’t even remember how. A cool song I think.
Morgan Nagler – Grassoline (Official Music Video)
I like what they are writing about Morgan Nagler
One imagines Morgan Nagler and Madi Diaz — two of America’s craftiest singer-songwriters — laughing their asses off while writing this song. One imagines a bong was involved.
Good lord, I’ve needed to laugh; this did the trick. How refreshing — after decades of disproportionately uninspired country drinking songs from the Nashville churn, a good ol’ ear-worm country weed song. Evidently, I’m a sucker for stoner humor. But even the title of Nagler’s forthcoming debut LP, due in March, cracked me up: I’ve Got Nothing to Lose, and I’m Losing It.
But look at some of the work she has done
Nagler’s been at this for awhile. She’s worked with Gillian Welch and David Rawling, co-writing the very sweet “Sweet Tooth” on Rawlings’ 2009 album A Friend of a Friend. She had a co-write on Haim’s “Falling,” and that’s her hollering heartily alongside Kim Deal on “The Root.” Nagler earned a Grammy co-writing nom for “Kyoto,” one of Phoebe Bridgers’ two or three greatest songs. And Nagler co-wrote the gorgeous “Nowhere is Where,” one of the best songs on Margo Price’s Hard Headed Woman last year.
all from a Substack called
Will Hermes: New Music + Old Music
a little bit extra from Wikipedia
A native of Oregon who grew up in Los Angeles, Nagler worked as a child actor, appearing on the TV series Punky Brewster and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,[1] as well as in the film American Pie 2 (2001)
Wednesday – Elderberry Wine (47)
Wednesday – Elderberry Wine (Official Video)
From Pitchfork with an interesting nod to MJ Lenderman
Southern hospitality sets its own kind of trap: The worst part of being told “bless your heart” is being unable to say “go fuck yourself” right back. On Wednesday’s new song, “Elderberry Wine,” Karly Hartzman is drowning in the apple-bobbing barrel, suffocated by small-town life. “Sometimes in my head I give up and/Flip the board completely,” she sings, only to cut herself off: “But everybody gets along just fine.” You suspect she wants to scream: I’m not getting along fine at all!
With creaky pedal steel and MJ Lenderman’s tender fingerpicking, “Elderberry Wine” may be the straight-up prettiest song Wednesday have ever made, something akin to a dusty family heirloom. Even Hartzman’s voice has a newfound lilt that’s a little bit Iris DeMent, a little bit Hope Sandoval. But all that prettiness is a “long con,” as she puts it. Since the release of 2023’s Rat Saw God, Hartzman and Lenderman privately—then publicly—split up, and earlier this year Lenderman said that he’d no longer tour with the band. Lines like “Your eyes are the green of tornado sky” and “Said I wanna have your baby/’Cause I freckle and you tan” now flash out like sharpened shivs. That sweet elderberry wine will leave you with a hell of a hangover.
Lenderman joined Wednesday in 2020 at the behest of lead singer Karly Hartzman, who had launched the band as a solo project in 2017. The two musicians also dated for a number of years, but they are no longer in a romantic relationship.
Apart from being a member of Wednesday and he sings on this song,, he gets no credit on the video.
You’ll cry at commercials
At an unbolted leg scraping against the ground
As the tilt-a-whirl goes around
Roll one up, say it’s mostly CBD
Said, “I wanna have your baby”
‘Cause I freckle and you tan
I find comfort that angels don’t give a damnKarly Hartzman
You can also see them on The Colbert Show here
(adapted by)Habib Koite, Jackson Brown, Artists for Peace and Justice – Koulandian
“LOVE IS LOVE” FROM LET THE RHYTHM LEAD: HAITI SONG SUMMIT VOL 1
November 22, 2019
Let the Rhythm Lead comes out on January 31, 2020 from Artists for Peace and Justice via Arts Music
November 22, 2019: Today, Arts Music released the track “Love is Love” from the upcoming benefit album Let the Rhythm Lead: Haiti Song Summit Vol 1, a collaborative project of songwriters Paul Beaubrun, Jackson Browne, Habib Koité, Jenny Lewis, Raúl Rodríguez, Jonathan Russell, and Jonathan Wilson, with members of the Haitian roots band Lakou Mizik.
“Love is Love” is featured on the collection Let The Rhythm Lead: Haiti Song Summit Vol. 1, out January 31, 2020.
Hailing from four different countries, interweaving North American Indie Rock with beats and percussion of Haitian Vodou, Spanish and Malian guitar, Tres Flamenco, with songs in English, Creole, Khassonké, Manding and Spanish, Let The Rhythm Lead celebrates the work of Artists for Peace and Justice in Haiti, and was recorded at their Artists Institute on the island’s southern coast, in the town of Jacmel.
Coming from a noble lineage of Khassonké griots, Koité is known for developing a distinctive guitar style that blends traditional Malian musical forms with elements of blues and Afro-Cuban music, while maintaining strong roots in Mali’s regional rhythms and cultural traditions.[2]
ARTISTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE:
Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) is a non-profit organization that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty around the world. Our immediate goal is to serve the poorest communities in Haiti with programs in education, healthcare and dignity. We are committed to long-term, sustainable development in direct partnership with the Haitian people. Our model is simple: we believe in empowering local communities, fostering economic growth, and the power of education to change a nation.
Julia- Sophie – “Lose My Mind” – Forgive Too Slow
This selection comes from the podcast Music Is None Of Our Business. This UK podcast is described as follows: “We are Dave and Jake, two 60-year-old music fans, and we take on a different theme per episode and pick five relevant songs each. ” Although they are mere spring chickens compared to us, it’s nice to know there are other old fellas out there carrying the torch.
Here’s some samples of their work.
Julia -Sophie is an Anglo-French avant-garde electronic artist. She produces nice ethereal stuff.
Arctic Monkeys – “Opening Night” – Help 2
For the past 20 years, The Arctic Monkeys have been one of England’s most popular indie bands. Their 2006 debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, topped the UK Albums Chart, becoming the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history at the time. It won Best British Album at the 2007 Brit Awards and has been hailed as one of the greatest debut albums. They have recorded this new song for the charity album Help 2 scheduled for release later in 2026. All proceeds go to Warchild. War Child International is an independent non-government organization founded in 1993. War Child’s work is rooted in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
In 1995 the original Help album was recorded, mixed and released all within one week. https://www.warchild.org.uk/get-involved/war-child-records/help
Now 30 years later a sequel is made with this teaser. Much speculation has been made that this is the last bow from the Monkeys.
Sophie May – “Another Song For the End of the World” – Stars and Teeth
Sophie May is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. She has released three EPs: You Do Not Have to be Good (2022), Worst Thoughts in the World (2023), and Deep Sea Creatures (2024). Like a few artists we have featured recently, she first came to public attention on demos she uploaded to TikTok. Her first full length album is coming out next month. Sophie May came to my attention in the NME’s end of year “Best of 2025” roundup.
The reviews of the featured track are quite glowing.
The Beaches – “I Ran” -single
Podcast favourite’s The Beaches are back with a one off single. They have done a pretty cool cover of the The Flock of Seagull’s 1982 chestnut.
They are off on the road for a European/ Australian tour and then heading home to play the Juno awards in March.
As for the original version of “I Ran”? Alone the hair is worth the price of admission…
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Whole-Hearted 
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