Doechii – Anxiety
The Elwins – Isle of My Own
Waxahatchee – Mud
Bob Mould – Here We Go Crazy
Shawn Mendes – Why Why Why
Wet Leg – Catch These Fists
Cameron Winter – Love Takes Miles
The New Pornographers – Ballad of the Last Payphone
Julian Taylor, Allison Russell – Pathways
7 New Songs You Should Hear Now
Our songs!!
I am using some great sources for this week. First, The Amplifier from the New York Times. Doechii has come seemingly out of nowhere to become the new star of the Grammys.
Doechii – Anxiety
This is directly from The Amplifier playlist
There’s a Grammy Award on the cover of this single that she obviously prepared well before the ceremony: That’s the confidence of a superstar in the making. (I appreciate this comment on the YouTube video: “Obsessed with the concept of Doechii having a folder for ‘Songs if I win the Grammys’ and ‘Songs if I don’t.’”)
I like this one
Anxiety | COVEN MUSIC SESSION
The song prominently samples the 2011 song “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye featuring Kimbra,[1][2] which itself samples “Seville” by Luiz Bonfá.
And I found a recording of Seville – yes, sampled by Gotye then by Doechii
Seville – Luiz Bonfa (Acoustic Guitar Cover)
Some of the royalties for the Gotye song actually go to Luiz Bonfa
More about the song from the Today Show of all places!
Social media has fallen in love with Doechii’s “Anxiety.”
Doechii, whose real name is Jaylah Ji’mya Hickmon, first recorded the song in her bedroom. Until recently, the song was only available on YouTube as part of her “Coven Music Sessions,” first posted in 2020.
“Anxiety” samples Gotye and Kimbra’s song “Somebody That I Used to Know.” While Gotye sings about the pain of losing a romantic partner in his smash hit, Doechii instead raps about the struggles she faces from constant worrying.
She swept the Grammys earlier this year, winning best new artist, best rap album and best rap performance for her album “Alligator Bites Never Heal.”
Waxahatchee – Mud
I don’t think we have ever played Waxahatchee on her own before, byt we have her singing with MJ Lenderman.
Waxahatchee Shares New Song “Mud”: Listen
This is from Pitchfork, and for once, I can understand what they are writing😳
Barely two days after walking the Recording Academy’s red carpet for her Grammy-nominated album Tigers Blood, Waxahatchee is back with a new song. It’s called “Mud,” and it’s an outtake from the recording sessions that birthed her 2024 LP. Listen to it below.
The track arrives on the heels of more exciting news: Katie Crutchfield and her band will perform on the Outlaw Music Festival Tour with Willie Nelson & Family, Bob Dylan, and Sheryl Crow, among others. Waxahatchee joins the touring festival from September 5 to 19
I don’t know anything about the Outlaw Music Festival, but it looks really cool
This tour takes all summer and looks fantastic, however, there are no Canadian dates
Shawn Mendes – Why Why Why
now moving on to my second search area, this year’s Junos, I guess the first two could be listed as Grammys at least in the nominated category.
He was beaten out three times by Tate McRae – best artist and two best albums awards. But Shawn has been winning awards at the Junos since 2017.
A good article about him on Wikipedia
from there – Shawn Peter Raul Mendes was born in Pickering, Ontario, on August 8, 1998, the son of English mother Karen (née Rayment) and Portuguese father Manuel Mendes. His mother is a real estate agent, while his father is a businessman from the Algarve who sells bar and restaurant supplies in Toronto.
Cameron Winter Love Takes Miles
Cameron Winter got a big feature in the New York Times Sunday editin. I read the article then listened to lots of his music. He is new and I like what he does.
Who do you think he sounds like??
Looks a little sad like Waxahatchee, they sound a little bit the same – I really like both of them.
Love Takes Miles
This is an interesting video from the Jimmy Kimmel Show – I think this is a telling piece in the NY Times article about getting ready to play on Jimmy Kimmel. I always think it is incredible how artists learn to collaborate. You can really hear this on this track.
Cameron Winter – Drinking Age
On a sooty, dank spring afternoon in March, the musician Cameron Winter sat hunched over a portable keyboard inside a rehearsal studio in a nondescript neighborhood of central Los Angeles. Mr. Winter, 23, was rehearsing for an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” the next evening, and was teaching four middle-aged horn players his song “Drinking Age,” a melancholic ballad off his debut solo album, “Heavy Metal.”
At first, they struggled to find their chemistry — partly because the five musicians deciphering a structurally amorphous piece of music did not know one another, and partly because the horn players, all women, stood in a clump off to one side.
Mr. Winter was not sure he wanted them there at all. The Kimmel team had suggested he choose something more entertaining and TV friendly than Mr. Winter sitting with his 6-foot-3 frame hunched at a piano. Also, maybe he could play something other than a whiny dirge?
As the rehearsal progressed, the singer’s well-mannered-Brooklyn-boy temperament triumphed, and a big-sister energy emerged from the four women toward this shaggy burgeoning star in his corduroy bomber jacket and fan-made T-shirt.
“I’m an idiot when it comes to this stuff,” Mr. Winter said sweetly, as Laura Brenes, the mellophone player with the bleach-blonde mullet, wrote out the song by hand so that she and the rest of the players could follow more easily.
An hour later, they exchanged high-fives. “And that’s how we’ll do it,” Mr. Winter said, smiling.
Julian Taylor, Allison Russell – Pathways
We have seen both of these artists play, most recently near Chelsea at a very intimate and lovely concert with Julian Taylor
a bit about the song here from Roots Music
Award-winning Americana/folk singer-songwriter Julian Taylor released his new single, “Pathways,” on Aug. 21, on all major platforms. It features the sweet, enchanting harmony vocals of Allison Russell, and it’s the fourth single from Julian’s forthcoming album, Pathways, to be released on Sept. 27. The official video by Ryan Nolan is out now.
“Pathways” was written by Julian with Toronto songwriters Robert Priest and Rosanne Baker Thornley, and it was created to be a duet with Allison.
Against a timeless, soulful, sing-song melody that recalls Roy Orbison; subtle but effective horns; and Allison Russel’s sublime harmonies, Julian perfectly captures the search for meaning and connection in our fleeting lives – between what he previously called “the oceans of time.” It’s no exaggeration to say that “Pathways” is Julian’s personal equivalent to John Lennon’s “Imagine.”
Pathways is a great album. Here is the single
Julian Taylor (Feat. Allison Russell) Pathways [Official Video]
The Elwins – “Isle of My Own”- single
After a very successful run, The Elwins broke up in January of 2022 as COVID raged. But to the delight of many, they preformed a reunion show in Toronto at the Garrison on March 27th. During the show, it was announced that a the band was releasing a new track at midnight. After 3 years away ….The Elwins – Isle Of My Own
Bob Mould – “Here We Go Crazy” – S/T
Bob Mould is a legend! For over 40 years he has released amazing music. First with Husker Du.
Later he went solo releasing some great stuff.
in the 1990’s he formed his 2nd great but fairly short-lived group Sugar.
In March he released his 15th solo album.
Wet Leg – “Catch These Fists” – Moisturizer
Old Fellas favourites Wet Leg have announced their sophomore album, Moisturizer. The album will be out in July but until then, they have teased us with this track Catch These Fists.
The New Pornographers – “Ballad of the Last Payphone”- single
The New Pornographers return with a limited edition 7 inch single. It’s their first new music since 2023. “Ballad of the Last Payphone” is an homage to the last existing payphone in New York. The band’s A.C. Newman said in press materials: “This song was inspired by a Raymond Carver story called ‘Fat,’ and tells the story of a person visiting the last payphone in NYC where it currently sits, in the Museum of the City of New York. The narrator doesn’t know why they are so fascinated by it, but to us it should be obvious. Obvious to me, at least.”
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Whole-Hearted 