Anyone who has followed this blog for any length of time knows that Vodka is a huge fan of Courtney Barnett. Courtney has teamed up with Kurt Vile for a long-player, Lotta Sea Lice (due out October 13, 2017). Here is the first single released from the LP, Over Everything, which is as feel-good and unpretentious as any of Barnett’s solo work. Over Everything is a look at finding bright moments when there are “big dark clouds in my periphery.” Kurt Vile is a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist…
Read MoreIn 2016, singer/songwriter folk-pop artist and photographer Peter James Millson, self-produced a collection of wonderful understated folk-pop tunes entitled The Red Cafe` (May 2016). Currently, Mr. Millson is working on his latest long-player, Mobile, due out sometime in the June/July time frame. Here, on the title track to The Red Cafe`, you can see why he is slowly growing a following. The story of the girl in the red cafe` is a story about a memory. We’ve all had those wistful moments when we visit a place where…
Read MoreNote: The original video has gone missing. Here is an audio-only version: Warning! The video for Freeman Dre & The Kitchen Party’s Adam & Eve, from the upcoming long-player Reckless Good Intentions, due out April 2017, is a little bit of soft-porn, 60′s style. The music, however, is like previous Freeman Dre offerings, full of rich blues and gravely good-humored vocals. The Kitchen Party provides expert instrumentation for Freeman’s vocal/lyrical delivery. There’s plenty of good old rock and roll available in the ten tracks that…
Read MoreRemember Paul McCartney’s lyrics to Silly Love Songs? “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs I look around me and I see it isn’t so Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs And what’s wrong with that I’d like to know” Place Meiko in that same camp, And she’s bound and determined to fill the world with as many silly love songs as possible. Enter Meiko’s latest release, Moving Day (June 2016), and that subject matter is found front and center in the lead-off track, I…
Read MoreNote: The original video has disappeared. Here is an audio-only version: Stone’s Throw is about aspiring to achieve your dreams and it is from The National Parks sophomore effort entitled Until I Live (August 2015). The National Parks make sometimes bouncy, sometimes introspective, message-driven alt-pop and alt-folk tunes that inspire careful listening and yes, dancing. When the band released their first full-length, Young, back in September of 2013, they found an immediate following that grew by leaps and bounds. The release of…
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