This week was our last week before the election, a scary time, and never mind Halloween. We chose to ignore all that and just play music. 😉 Faves of the week: A Tribe Called Red’s new track “Land Back” which uses traditional native American singers in an unusual hiphop context. Kiwi Jr, just signed by a minor major, gave us another winner with “Undecided Voters.” And The Creachies, who are neither British nor a girl group, supplied seasonal flavor with “One of the Vampire Girls.”
One of The Courtneys has moved on to greener pastures, leaving Vancouver for LA and founding a new band called Gum Country. Her new song “There’s a Crumb” shows promise, although it’s not quite up to the level of “Silver Velvet.” Yellow Days contend that “Love Is Everywhere” — would that it were true! And Superbravo remind us that they’re still endlessly hummable with “Anoucka.”
Also, new music from Bootsy (“The Power of the One”) and new releases from Prince’s Sign of the Times mega set.
And that, dear friends, is how things are here in late October 2020. Read on for all the details.
October 28, 2020
Darkness Falls
Space Ghost – What Day Is It?
George Garabedion Players – Georgie Girl (cover)
Chainmate – Freakout
Slint – The Breadcrumb Trail
Lydia Loveless – Love Is Not Enough
Yellow Days – Love Is Everywhere
Burt Ward and Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention – Orange Colored Sky
Prince – Eggplant
A Tribe Called Red – Land Back
Asutenki – New Dawn
Kiwi Jr – Undecided Voters
Bootsy Collins – Power of the One
Prince – Emotional Pump
the Creachies – One of the Vampire Girls
SuperBravo – Anoucka
Dana Point – Saturday
Rufus and Chaka Khan – Right is Right
Prince and the Revolution – Adonis and Bathsheba
Blue Marvel – Defenestration II
Blue Marvel – Flats in Camden
Blue Marvel – Dilla Appreciation
Rare Essence – Hit the Floor
Streetwise – Nuthin’ But a G Thang
Gum Country – There’s a Crumb
Eli Gardiner – Tattered and Torn
The Nix with Khloe Anna – The Drop