Week in Music & Such September 28th - October 4th

Honeyblood's 'The Third Degree' has been my song of the week. What a wonderful, jubilant, modern guitar take on a 60s-esque tune. LOVE it. 

Bought the Honeyblood discography on Bandcamp Friday.

Also bought Sam Barton's 'Acid Apple Satin Walls'. Great new record. Electronic, experimental elements. And 'We Painted Our Faces And Gave False Names' is a thing of beauty. One of my tracks of the year.

Also discovered Blue Boredom. Lovely female-voiced synthpop. They remind me of someone but I haven't figured out who yet. 

Interviewed John Andrew Fredrick again for the latest episode of Etcetera ETC With Young Southpaw. My first repeat guest. And always a pleasure to chat with the elegantly loquacious Mr. Fredrick. So I was listening to his new Black Watch album, Fromthing Somethat, of which this is my favourite song from it:

In other news, finished William Boyd's 'Armadillo'. I really enjoyed reading it, though I was convinced the end could have gone a couple of different ways and I wasn't so sure about this relationship with Flavia, with it coming from so little. 

Now I'm onto 'The End' by Fernanda Torres. Really enjoying this. Ostensibly about the lives of five male friends in Rio, but it's almost as equally the story of the women in their lives. Very fun, bawdy, but emotionally packing a punch as well.

Re-read Nabokov's 'The Vane Sisters' two nights ago and was once again deeply touched by its beauty and inventiveness. 

TV-wise, I continue to be enthralled with The Bureau. Devoured Season 2 in four days and now onto Season 3. 

Week In Music August 17th-23rd

Digging Carla J. Easton's new high energy tunes. I've been a fan since TeenCanteen, interviewed her for The Counterforce podcast in 2018 for her first solo album. New solo record out this week. Looking forward to it. The first couple days of this week no music was really stuck in my head. Then I heard 'Weirdo'

The tune features Honeyblood. A name I knew but hadn't really heard anything by. So I went and listened. 'Killer Bangs' is my favourite from what I've heard so far. Excellent chorus.

And Stina's solo My Light Shines On performance is great. What a voice

I follow Carla's brother Murray on Twitter . He posts a lot of good stuff and on Friday posted Andy Bell (Ride)'s new single and an interview with Andy on his blog. Digging the single. Catchy and sounds like it could've come out in the early 90s, which is good by me

I interviewed Steve Kilbey from The Church for my ETC podcast last week. Had a great conversation. He played a great new tune on his weekly Instagram show called 'Tantric Hammer'. 

Steve also covered a bit of 'Crimon & Clover' which got that stuck in my head. I've always liked the Joan Jett version.

Mostly stuck in my head this week was Taylor Swift's 'betty', which, along with 'mirrorball', is my favourite from the new album

And I'm re-watching Letterkenny. So good. Letterkenny and Wodehouse are really what have kept me going this year, still being able to laugh. Glen's "Christian post-alt-rock emo superband" at the talent show is fantastic