- Kings of Leon “Youth and Young Manhood” - I hate to be one of those “oh their old stuff was amazing,” or “yeah, first album monumental, everything after that absolute dross,” but I am going to be that person, because nothing could be more true than with this band. Creedence Clearwater Revival revivalism to the extreme, straight out of the 70’s bayou in a ford van with bubble windows. Fuzzed out jangle, cowbell, yes and more cowbell, boogey southern rock assault that would make John Fogerty (who’s still alive by the way!) reanimate his brother to reform CCR to compete with this.
- “The Godfathers of Hardcore” documentary about Agnostic Front is damn good. A documentary about a New York Hardcore band doesn’t sound like it would be gripping, but this at times quite heartfelt digging into their tumultuous past of literally living on the streets to dealing with aging actually is.
- Decolonize Your Mind Society are as decidedly psychedlic as they are in going way beyond “western” music, whatever that may mean. Somewhere around and at times a tad too close to Sweden’s Goat in the afrobeat.
- Man is The Decameron grim, funny, cringe and weirdly delightful in equal parts. And that’s right, a black comedy sort of thing on Netflix about the Black Plague in Tuscany in 1348.
- Like shining from shook foil - A great and very readable essay on travel and how to rethink it. Nice bits about going somewhere for either no reason or for a very specific reason and firm discouraging of the week trip on someone else’s recommendation which it describes like being in mourning.
- Drunk Mums - Beer Baby - head bobbing, mulleted, Aussie punk rock and roll about the important things in life like beer and the weekend.
- Duran Duran “Girls on Film” - Easily their best cut and a great soundtrack to tying that headband on for the weekend.
- Bill Burr as JFK in “Frosted”
- Restraining Order “This World is Too Much” - Straight ahead punk hardcore as comfortable in the late 80’s as it is today.
- Pelle Miljoona & 1980 “Viimeinen Syksy”- Talk about random discoveries, how about the godfather of Finnish punk?
