Episode 91 August 29, 2025
This Week!!
The Bankes Brothers – Bedroom Wall
Sharp Pins – Every Time I Hear
Emahoy Tsege Marium Gebru – Ready to Leave
Scott Lavene – Pound Shop Pacino
Future Islands – King of Sweden
Jim Bob – Sword Fight Outside of McDonalds
Ewan Currie – Big Pine Key
Royel Otis – moody
IDER – Attachment Theory
The Bankes Brothers – Bedroom Wall
another band that does not have much written about them. That’s great.
something here about their new single
The Bankes Brothers Deliver Anthemic New Single “Bedroom Wall”
single, release April 25, 2025
The Bankes Brothers are back with “Bedroom Wall,” a vibrant and guitar-driven new single that marks a bold next chapter for the Victoria-based band. The track delivers on everything fans have come to expect from the rising rock outfit – hook-heavy melodies, infectious energy, and the kind of timeless sound that feels right at home in both packed festival fields and sweaty club stages.
“Bedroom Wall” opens with a bang – literally. “We felt like we needed a song that gripped you from the first line,” says Nelson Bankes. “The line just came to me while driving home.” It’s that kind of spontaneous spark that fuels the song’s restless momentum. Originally written over a long period and only fully realized after bringing in celebrated producer Gus van Go (The Beaches, Arkells, Hollerado), the track became a testament to growth, collaboration, and creative intuition.
Formed in 2017, the band consists of brothers Nelson and Morgan along with Carson Cleaver on guitar and drummer Gray Oxley.
They are coming to the Bronson Center on November 27 this year.
Emahoy Tsege Marium Gebru – Ready to Leave
I have always found this music exotic and entrancing. So, finally I am putting this out there.
Here is the song, I don’t think you are going to find a recording of her singing this
There is a short video of her playing here
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru playing Mother’s Love
Here is a bit written about with the release of some of her music
The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil. These are songs of wisdom, loss, mourning, and exile, sung directly into a boombox and accompanied by Emahoy’s unmistakable piano. Though written and recorded while still living at her family’s home in Addis Ababa, Emahoy sings of the heartache of being far from home, a reflection on the 1974 revolution and Red Terror in Ethiopia, and a presentiment of her future exile in Jerusalem. In the 21st century, Emahoy has become known worldwide for her utterly unique melodic and rhythmic style.
Her story and music is so interesting. A little here from Wikipedia
Emahoy did not release any of her music made during the 1970s to the 1990s, due to the Derg party coup in 1974, which heavily policed non government or military oriented music. This led to a resurgence of Emahoy’s compositions from the 1960s and 1970s when a compilation of Emahoy’s work was issued on the Éthiopiques record label. The album Éthiopiques Volume 21: Ethiopia Song was released by Francis Falceto in 2006.[22] Emahoy also appeared on the 2012 album The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia, and the 2011 album The Rough Guide to African Lullabies.
Even though she lived in relative obscurity, dying in 2023 aged 99 years. Her discography is extensive
Albums
- Spielt eigene Kompositionen, 1963. Reissued by Mississippi Records in 2022.
- The Hymn of Jerusalem. The Jordan River Song, 1970. Reissued by Mississippi Records in 2022 as Jerusalem.[38]
- Yet My King Is from Old, Church Of Kidane Mehret, 1972.
- The Visionary: Piano Solo, Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Music Foundation, 2012.
- Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Mississippi Records, 2022.
- Souvenirs, Mississippi Records, 2024. Songs recorded on cassette between 1977 and 1985 by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.
- Church of Kidane Mehret, Mississippi Records, 2025. The album brings together the complete set of musical pieces from Emahoy’s self-released 1972 album of the same name, along with two previously unheard solo piano recordings.[39]
She is compared to the likes of Count Basie, Keith Jarrett, Chopin and Bach, to name a few.
Future Islands – King of Sweden
I think this is a great band with the best vocals. We have played them before and I love their music. Why say more?
Here is the song played LIVE on the Colbert Show via Youtube
Future Islands Debut New Song “King of Sweden”
Here is another live performance from KEXP
Future Islands – Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home)
The lead singer is Samuel T. Herring and the band is from Baltimore.
Ewan Currie – Big Pine Key
Is this like the Moody Blues?
Ewan Currie is a member of the Sheepdogs. A great sound here, but not much can be found about this. I can say I like this more than most of the Sheepdogs’ music I know.
So, I didn’t find out anything about his new solo album, but I did find his Substack where he talks about tours with the Sheepdogs.
Who needs capital cities when you have the wonderful folks that inhabit places like Moose Jaw, Medicine Hat, and Fort St. John? We ate at Mom & Pop restaurants, perused the wares of second hand shops, played a healthy amount of blackjack and went to some real dive bars. Oh yeah, we also played some terrific rock n roll shows too. Here’s a few fun film snaps from along the way.
IDER – Attachment Theory
IDER – Attachment Theory (Official Music Video)
Love the vocals and the harmonies.
again, not too much about the band. From Wikipedia again
In 2024, Ider returned with the singles “Girl”, “Unlearn” and “You Don’t Know How to Drive” from their forthcoming album Late to the World, which was released in February 2025.[18] In January 2025 they released a further single from the album, “Attachment Theory”.[19]
and they are
Ider (stylized as IDER) are an English singer-songwriter duo from London, composed of Megan Markwick and Lily Somerville. Their musical style combines features of various musical genres, and it has been described as “cross-genre“.[1] Formed in 2016 after performing as Lily & Meg for two years, Ider released their debut EP Gut Me Like an Animal in 2017, followed by the first full-length album Emotional Education in 2019.
This is their third album, though, and the video is good. Here is part of one article, written by Dork about the new song released in February.
IDER have shared new single ‘Attachment Theory’, from their third album ‘Late To The World’, due 21st February.
The track follows recent singles ‘Know How It Hurts’, ‘Unlearn’, ‘Girl’, and ‘You Don’t Know How To Drive’, and arrives accompanied by a 16mm film video shot in London by Basha De Bruijn.
“We wrote ‘Attachment Theory’ after a friend asked us to write a song about attachment styles,” the duo explain. “It seems as though everyone is obsessed with the idea and with self-diagnosing, so we decided to write a confessional song about ours. On a deeper and more emotional level it’s about the fear of being defined by the way you love and desperately wanting to change it.”
Speaking about the video, they add: “We made the video for ‘Attachment Theory’ with director and friend Basha De Bruijn. The concept was simple – us crying and ‘getting through life’ in everyday situations filmed around London and at Meg’s flat, to capture the raw and real message of the song. The video was shot on 16mm film which made the final visual and the filming experience as true to life as possible.”
IDER self-diagnose with new single ‘Attachment Theory’ ahead of their third album
IDER unveil their latest single ‘Attachment Theory’ and announce their third album ‘Late To The World’, produced by Dann Hume. Dork
Sharp Pins – “Every Time I Hear” – Radio DDR
There doesn’t seem to be much info on this band so I did the 21st century thing and leaned into AI. According to AI, “Sharp Pins is the super solid lo-fi noise pop project of talented Chicago musician Kai Slater of Lifeguard and Dwaal Troupe.” They are certainly super:
8.3 out of 10 from Pitchfork is high praise indeed.
Scott Lavene – “Pound Shop Pacino” – Cars, Buses, Bedsits And Shops
Again, I selected another intriguing artist that doesn’t exactly have a large PR team. This following article will suffice:
The intriguing connecting between Pacino and Ketchup may have it’s root in the 1995 movie Heat
#alpacino @heinz Ketchup #robertdeniro Michael Mann’s Heat (1995)
Nevertheless, imagine a Tom Waits song set in a Dollarama:
I thought I would include another cool Lavene sardonic song about Hollywood:
Jim Bob – Sword Fight Outside of McDonalds – “Stick”
Jim Bob was born James Robert Morrison. He changed his name because he did not want to be mistaken for, in his own words, “a fat, dead, crap poet” – i.e. the former singer of The Doors. In the late 80’s he became known as the singer for the fairly popular band Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine. They became extremely popular in the UK. In 1992, the band headlined the Glastonbury Festival where annoyed at the shortening of their headline set due to other bands overrunning insulted festival founder Michael Eavis. They were subsequently banned from the festival forever.
The band broke up in 1998. Jim Bob has subsequently been busy doing solo work. This summer he has been particularly busy. He’s released not one but two albums on the same day.
I chose this track due to the intriguing title:
Royel Otis – “moody” – Hickey big song – sofa king
Royel Otis is an Australian duo formed in 2019 by Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic. Royel Otis have released three EPs and two lps. Royel Otis first came to my attention a couple of years ago with the song “Sofa King”
Their latest single is ‘moody”
Whole-Hearted 