Album Previews for 2021 Part 5: Stick With The Issues

Another set of previews that address new music for 2021, including:

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers– Just Coolin’ (2020/1959)
Slauson Malone - Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak) (2020)
Mononeon – Banana Peel on Capitol Hill (2021)
Duma – Duma (2020)
Rafael Anton Irisarri- Solastalgia (2019) 

Ecker & Meulyzer – Carbon (2018)



Relevant Links:
Full short video documentary for Growth

The ever-evolving 2021 Radio playlist

Album Previews for 2021 Part 4: The Prog Show!

 Previewing new music for 2021, with a special emphasis on progressive rock releases, including:

The Flower Kings - Islands (2020) Gleb Kolyadin - Gleb Kolyadin (2018) Soup - The Beauty of Our Youth (2013) Leprous - Pitfalls (2019) Glass Hammer - Chronomonaut (2018) Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior (1976)

Relevant links: Review of Soup's Remedies (my first dedicated video post) Review of iamthemorning's debut and an example of the speculative Yes membership series Review of Glass Hammer's Chronometree

And the ever-growing 2021 Radio Spotify playlist - now with added prog!

Album Preview for 2021 Part 3: Meet the Cast

 The third installment in a series of overviews that examine albums new to me in 2021, including:

Caroline Eyck & Eversines – Waves LP (2020)

Jeremy Cunningham – The Weather Up There (2020)

Photay – Waking Hours (2020)

Disheveled Cuss – Disheveled Cuss (2020)

The Jonathan Scales Fourchestra – Pillar (2018)

Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny (2020)

 And the 2021 Spotify playlist!

Van Halen's Diamond Days Part 3: Women and Children First

 Part 3 of a six part series covering the albums released by Van Halen with David Lee Roth.  This episode looks at Women and Children First with a special emphasis on Alex Van Halen’s contributions to the group.

Relevant Links;

Post on Van Halen I

https://youtu.be/z5Vj03txEN0

And Van Halen II

Rick Beato’s post on Alex Van Halen’s distinctive snare sound

Full animation for In A Simple Rhyme by Vazz Toons

Album Previews for 2021 Part 2: Draw the Curtain

 Second in a series previewing new music for 2021, including:

 

Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (2020)

Orchestre International du Vetex – Total Tajine (2011)

Coriky – Coriky (2020)

Kai Whiston – No World As Good As Mine (2019)

E.B. the Younger – To Each His Own (2019)

Speaker Music – Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry (2020)

 

Relevant Links

Post on Midlake’s Tales of Van Occupanther

Speaker Music source video from Clips Co-Op

The 2021 Radio Playlist from Spotify.  Follow for updates!