Music for Episode 62!
Gustaf – Starting and Staring
Weezer – Africa, The Teal Album
Geese – Killing Mt Borrowed Time
Andrea Ramolo, Kalascima – Bella Ci Dormi
Beverley Copeland – Harbour Song (Song For Elizabeth)
Juliana Hatfield – Can’t Get It Out of My Head
Feist – Borrow Trouble
Feist is back with another new song from her forthcoming album, Multitudes. The latest single, “Borrow Trouble,” comes with a music video co-directed by Mary Rozzi, Colby Richardson, Heather Goodchild, and Leslie Feist. Watch the visual above.
Multitudes is out April 14. In addition to “Borrow Trouble,” the new album includes the songs “Hiding Out in the Open,” “In Lightning,” and “Love Who We Are Meant To.”
Lana Del Rey – Doing Time
and here come the cover songs!! And Lana Del Rey is a remake of the 50 Foot woman!! (1958)
From Wikipedia
On May 7, 2019, American singer Lana Del Rey teased a cover of the song and said it was “coming soon”.[4] Del Rey’s cover was officially released on May 17, 2019, coinciding with the premiere of a documentary about Sublime at the Tribeca Film Festival.[5] It was released as the fourth single from Del Rey’s sixth studio album Norman Fucking Rockwell!. On August 29, 2019, she released a music video for the cover, she increased in height from 170 centimeters to 17 meters, which referenced the film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958). When asked about covering the song, Del Rey credited the transitioning of and shifts in genres to Sublime, saying the group “made a genre and sound totally their own”, adding that because of the indelible “SoCal vibe” the group created, “not a day goes by that [she does not] listen to at least one Sublime song.”[6
also from Wikipedia – “Doin’ Time” is a song by American band Sublime, appearing as the closing track on their self-titled third album. The lyrics tell of a cheating girlfriend, whose infidelities and poor treatment of her lover makes him feel like he is in prison.
Here is the 1996 Sublime song
Weezer – Africa, The Teal Album
This is the stuff of musical legend, and it is within our 2017 timeline!
Its been a while, man, lifes so rad. A while, that is, since we were awarded with a gold record! Thanks to everyone – Mary the @weezerafrica
twitter girl, our fans, terrestrial and satellite stations, streaming services, and Crush management – for supporting this crazy single!
Weezer, also known as the Teal Album or just Teal, is the twelfth studio album by the American rock band Weezer. It was released digitally on January 24, 2019, through Crush Music and Atlantic Records, with a retail release on March 8. The album is composed of cover songs, mostly from the 1980s, making it the band’s first covers album. It was announced and released on the same day as a surprise precursor to Weezer’s thirteenth studio album, which was released on March 1, 2019. The album received mixed reviews, with some praising the self-aware frivolity of the project, while others criticized the arrangements.
Weezer – Africa (starring Weird Al Yankovic)
On the morning of December 7, 2017, I was sitting at the Noisey desk, finishing up a hearty blogger’s breakfast (two bags of nacho cheese Doritos and one can of Red Bull) when I noticed my friend Luke O’Neil was tweeting about Weezer slightly more than usual.
“Please RT if you want to help make Ohio teen @weezerafrica’s simple, wholesome dream come true of seeing rock band @Weezer cover Africa by Toto,” he tweeted. Luke is an occasional Noisey writer, and is very adept at wandering into the dark rooms of the internet and causing trouble in them. So my interest was piqued. “OK, I’ll bite,” I thought, and gave Luke’s tweet the one true currency left in our capitalist hell world: my Click.
Upon opening his thread I realized Luke was trying to signal boost @weezerafrica, an underfollowed Twitter account whose sole purpose was to convince the band Weezer to cover Toto’s 1982 hit single “Africa.” The sentiment straddled that sweet middle ground between ironic detachment and genuine enthusiasm. It was so stupid. So irreverent. So utterly lacking in any useful information. I knew it belonged on Noisey. My intuition kicked in. On sheer instinct, my fingers started an email to Luke and threw his directive entirely into the subject line: interview the weezer/toto person for me plz.
and you have to see the original Toto version
Andrea Ramolo, Kalascima – Bella Ci Dormi
“Five Minutes With” Toronto Musician Andrea Ramolo
January 21, 2020 Joel Levy Folk-Country, Music, Rock-Indie
Andrea Ramolo is a multiple Canadian Folk Music Award nominee and has been recording and touring her music since 2008. Born in Toronto to Italian immigrants, Andrea began her artistic life as a dancer and actress. In 2003 she picked up the guitar producing two albums “Thank You For The Ride’ and “The Shadows and the Cracks.” The latter earned her a nomination at the Canadian Folk Music Awards for Emerging Artist of the Year.
This is a great track and you can find it on Bandcamp here
Here is the trailer from a movie she made based on this collaboration
The film will premiere in June in Toronto with a six-song EP released at the same time.
“I really hope to bring the band over for the premiere,” she said. “They did Folk Alliance in Montreal, which is where I met them. They were playing the ancient instruments like the Zampogna, which are Italian bagpipes. This is an ancient music they play from a time when the musicians were the healers, and they were paid like doctors.”
Juliana Hatfield – Can’t Get It Out of My Head
excerpts from an interview – not a very good one at that. But Bob did fill me in a little about her. Three cover albums since 2018, the last one ELO recorded during COVID – pretty impressive.
After cutting two solid covers albums, Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John in 2018, and Juliana Hatfield Sings The Police a year later, the singer is now issuing an even more passionate third set, Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO, revolving around the earworm work of that band’s brilliant symphonic-rock mastermind Jeff Lynne
but how she made the album is interesting – another product of COVID
when I was making this album, I didn’t have access to a studio, so I did it all in my bedroom. Or at least all of my parts, and then the bass and drums were recorded in a rehearsal space while I was there rehearsing the parts.
from the Illinois Entertainer – August 31, 2023 interview by Brassneck
but who is she? Juliana Hatfield (born July 27, 1967) is an American musician and singer-songwriter from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies, Some Girls,[2] and The Lemonheads. Thanks Wikipedia!
Neko Case – “Oh, Shadowless” – Wild Creatures
Until about ten years ago, I thought Neko Case was a Canadian. However, Case was born in Virginia and moved to Canada in the nineties, to attend the Emily Carr Institute of Art in Vancouver. She became involved in the music scene played drums in several local bands, like Cub and Maow. Here’s a young Neko Case in Maow’s video “Ms. Lefevre”.
Also, she performed on Cub’s classic “Pillow Queen”
Of course, she came to prominence as one of the vocalists with West Coast “super group”The New Pornographers but by the late 1990’s she returned to the states. She has seven solo albums out and in 2022 released a compilation Wild Creatures
https://www.popmatters.com/neko-case-wild-creatures-review
The album comes with one unreleased wonderful song “Oh Shadowless”
Gustaf – “Starting and Staring” – Package Pt 2
This young NYC band came together in 2018. Like most things, Gustaf shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They finally starting releasing new material in 2021. The Burning Wood blog was my inspiration for choosing these guys. This is a great read.
https://burnwoodtonite.blogspot.com/search?q=gustaf.
Scroll to the bottom for “Starting and Staring”
Geese – “Killing My Borrowed Time” – 4D EP
Geese are an American rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. According to Wikipedia, “ The band formed in 2016 while the members were attending Brooklyn Friends School and Little Red School House in New York City. During high school, the band practiced and recorded material in the basement of Bassin’s home in Fort Greene. As a few of the members had received acceptance letters to attend schools such as Oberlin College and the Berklee College of Music, the band had intended to break up once they graduated high school in 2020. Towards mid-2020, however, the band’s self-produced demos attracted attention from several record labels, including 4AD, Fat Possum, and Sub Pop. Ultimately, the band signed with Partisan Records.”
Once again The Burning Wood blog comes to the rescue for inspiration and elucidation. https://burnwoodtonite.blogspot.com/2024/01/these-are-geese.html.
Let’s cha-cha to “Killing My Borrowed Time”
Beverley Copeland – “Harbour Song (Song For Elizabeth)” – The One’s Ahead
Beverly Glenn-Copeland is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter. I going to let Canada’s evergreen publication fill you in on this artist’s incredibly interesting life. https://thewalrus.ca/beverly-glenn-copelands-late-bloom/
In fifty years, his released recordings have been sporadic but 2023’s The One’s Ahead has landed on many people’s year end best of lists. At 80 years of age , he is finally receiving wider spread recognition.
Whole-Hearted 