It's Friday, and the weekend is here! To keep things fresh and not too dull, I'm also sharing a fresh selection of #newtunes, the latest songs by famous and less famous musicians.
Eight songs of different genres, and, if you have a few minutes, you can back them up by listening. Maybe you'll like something. If you don't like some of them, feel free to skip them.
Music4life!
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I had forgotten about Skunk Anansie, a British band formed in 1994. They went on hiatus from 2001 to 2009 and have been playing again. They are the representatives of Brit Rock, a kind of opposition to Brit Pop. Their music ranges from alternative rock, hard rock, and grunge to metal. They have released a few singles and six studio albums, the last of which was Anarchytecture in 2016.
10 days ago, they presented the single An Artist Is An Artist. Whether this will continue into a new album is unknown (yet).
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Viagra Boys, the Swedish punk band that has become a concert attraction on both sides of the Atlantic in the last couple of years, will release a new album in April. The band has also launched its label, Shrimptech Enterprises.
As a fan of the band, I immediately listened to the opening song, "Man Made of Meat," which is absurd and provocative.
Shrimp Coin is still to come :)
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The American band The Last Poets was founded in New York in 1968, on the birthday of the late Malcolm X, the herald of the Black Revolution. They were pioneers of the cultural movements of African-American empowerment.
The group changed and disappeared entirely at the beginning of the twenty-first century. As of 2018, however, two of the last poets, Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan, are back musically.
Africanism is their latest album, released last November. Tony Allen, the now-deceased drummer of Fela Kuti, recorded the classic Afrobeat rhythms in the studio, on which they then built the music further with a host of collaborating younger and older musicians.
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Cedric Burnside is the grandson of Mississippi blues legend R.L. Burnside. On the compilation Better Than Jail, released late last year, he plays a cover of this legendary song written and performed by Bukka White called Parchman Farm Blues in 1937 at Parchman Prison.
Yes, R.L. Burnside was also in that same prison for murder. Proceeds from the sale of this compilation go towards improving the living conditions of prisoners in American jails.
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Goat is a Swedish rock band active since 2012 and moves through psychedelic rock and voodoo passages. Nimerudi is announcing a new album to be released at the end of February this year. Ugandan rapper MC Yallah backs them on vocals and reversible hip-hop.
Sharp and bouncy, funky with rhythmic percussion, galloping bass, and psych guitar riffs.
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FKA Twigs, or Tahliah Debrett Barnett, is an English singer, songwriter, and dancer. She has been a backing dancer and singer for many well-known musicians. She came to prominence with trap and is still sailing through the genre. She has released three albums, the latest, Eusexua, just today.
In Room Of Fools and some other songs, I feel Bjƶrk has influenced her a lot. Whether that is bad or good is for the fans to decide. Maybe I am wrong.
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Pigs x7 is a British rock band from Newcastle Upon Tyne. They have been playing since 2012 and have released four albums, the fifth of which, Death Hilarious, will be released in April this year. The psych rock and metal they started their career with are transformed into a more swinging stoner groove in the title track, Skitches, which also uses synths. I expect more new songs in the next few months.
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Ringo Starr, the Beatles legend, apparently always liked country music. After I didn't know how many years, I listened to him on his Look Up album, which came out at the end of last year. Time of My Hands is a slow song, like The Mississippi River, with a balance of wisdom, decent nostalgia, and sometimes even self-irony - all the elements that belong to the genre. There are no vague wanderings into the past or fearful glances into the future.
At 84, he is still grateful for the starry sky above him and hopes for more love and peace.
š¶That's all for today, and enjoy your weekend with new songs!
#newtunes2025: 17.1.2025, 10.1.2025
If you're interested in #newtunes suggestions from the past six years, you can listen to them at these links - there are Spotify playlists for each year:
newtunes2019 | newtunes2020 | newtunes2021
newtunes2022 | newtunes2023 | newtunes2024
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