※ XTC’s Andy Partridge Has A New Band Called The 3 Clubmen — Hear Their Debut Single “Aviatrix”

Via Stereogum’s Chriss DeVille:

Recently, while reflecting on how nice a Kate Bush-style viral comeback would be, XTC’s Andy Partridge said he no longer writes new songs and is “waiting for my music mojo to return, in between researching UFO events.” I guess his music mojo returned? Patridge has a new band called the 3 Clubmen, and their debut single is out now.

Listen to it here.

Dazy’s exhilarating ‘OUTOFBODY’ sustains its quality all the way through : NPR

Dazy’s exhilarating ‘OUTOFBODY’ sustains its quality all the way through : NPR:

Virginia-based musician James Goodson — aka Dazy — sings most often in a voice that’s high and urgent. His version of power pop is noisy, ragged, full of feedback and clatter — and irresistible.

EPs and Singles I Enjoyed, 2022 Vintage

In no particular order:

  • Paramore — This is Why
  • New Pagans — Rollercoaster
  • Ted Leo — For Coit and Killie
  • Steady Holiday — People Taking Pictures of Each Other (feat. Bedouin)
  • New Pagans — Better People
  • ACR — Healthy
  • Cop Funeral — What if Life Wasn’t a Problem
  • Storefront Church — Words (Low cover)

Some albums I enjoyed, 2022 vintage

In no particular order:

  • Spoon — Lucifer on the Sofa
  • The Beths — Expert in a Dying Field
  • soccer mommy — Sometimes, Forever
  • Angel Olsen — Big Time
  • Alvvays — Blue Rev
  • Big Thief — Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
  • Gladie — Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out
  • The Linda Lindas — Growing Up
  • Shovels & Rope — Manticore

Papa Jojo Radio Show for Thursday 01 Dec 22

Dear Friends,

Welcome back for another edition of the Papa Jojo Radio Show! I hope y’all enjoyed a great Thanksgiving in the US, and those outside enjoyed the World Cup. RIP Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac.

This post will be updated through the 8 O’Clock hour.

UPDATE: Fin

The Six O’Clock Hour

  • They Might Be Giants – Ana Ng
  • Cowboy Mouth – Better
  • Black Keys, The – Your Team is Looking Good
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Kiss Them for Me
  • HAIM – Lost Track
  • Beths, The – Silence is Golden
  • Soccer Mommy – Feel It All the Time
  • B-52s, The – Roam
  • Alvvays – Pharmacist
  • Fleetwood Mac – You Make Loving Fun
  • Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie – In My World
  • Taylor Swift (with Lana Del Rey) – Snow on the Beach
  • Fievel is Glauque – the Perfect Idiot
  • Prince – 1999
  • David Bowie – Modern Love (Moonage Daydream Mix)
  • They Might Be Giants – You’re On Fire

The Seven O’Clock Hour

  • Shovels & Rope – Collateral Damage
  • Spoon – On The Radio (Adrian Sherwood Reconstruction)
  • Beabadoobee – 10:36
  • The Ditty Bops – Oh La La
  • Gladie – Born Yesterday
  • Vincent Perrot – Jaguar
  • John Prine – Linda Goes to Mars
  • John Prine (with Susan Tedeschi) – Color of the Blues
  • Tedeschi Trucks Band – I Am the Moon
  • Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
  • Ben Harper – Need to Know Basis
  • Amanda Shires – Hawk for the Dove
  • Linda Lindas, The – Never Say Never
  • Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer
  • Son Volt – Drown
  • Jack White – A Tip From You To Me

The Eight O’Clock Hour

  • R.E.M. – Begin the Begin
  • Paramore – This is Why
  • Maggie Rogers – Want Want
  • Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Live at the Old Grey Whistle Test)
  • Santigold – Disparate Youth
  • Band, The – The Shape I’m In
  • Meat Puppets – Backwater
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
  • Nirvana – Come As You Are
  • Who, The – Can’t Explain
  • Dazy – Rollercoaster Ride
  • Led Zeppelin – Fool in the Rain
  • Living Colour – Cult of Personality
  • Bjork – Atopos

Sufjan Stevens in Vulture

Sufjan Stevens’s catalogue feels wild and untamable. In just a year span, between September 2020 and 2021, the singer-songwriter and Asthmatic Kitty Records founder debuted almost five hours of music: the pensive, electronic album The Ascension; the ambient, mournful Convocations; and the film-obsessed A Beginner’s Mind, where he and artist Angelo De Augustine wrote songs about a string of horror and action-adventure movies. In the aughts, Sufjan’s Michigan and Illinois albums earned a massive following impressed not just by his heartfelt lyrics, elaborate arrangements, and affecting singing, but by the way songs like “Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!” and “Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)” imparted a sense of geography and history, however subtle. It was then, in 2006, with Illinois sales sailing past 100,000 units, when he released a delightfully quixotic array of projects, including Songs for Christmas, a five-volume set of holiday tracks the performer had originally gifted to friends. The song selection revealed him as a sophisticated collector of carols, and the expedition in the originals — from the ramshackle folk of “We’re Going to the Country!” to the boisterous big-band sound of “Get Behind Me Santa!” and “Christmas in July” — mapped all the creative turns it took to get from the embryonic ideas in his 1999 debut A Sun Came to the big mainstream breakthrough.

Holiday albums are the back roads in Sufjan Stevens’s catalogue, the less-traveled trails joining the points of interest where the rest of the audience congregates. They’re also a place where the elaborate detail and abrupt stylistic shifts and secular-spiritual dualities in his art feel most unfettered, being products of a friends-and-family tradition the rest of us heard only years after the fact. By the time you figured this out, Sufjan was already miles away. If Illinois was your first encounter, you might’ve scratched your head at the winding, calamitous, synth-drenched tunes on his 2010 album, The Age of Adz, a sharp detour for fans pining for more “Chicago.” Another holiday package — 2012’s 58-song Silver & Gold — traced that evolution, getting from the gorgeous, rustic Dessner brothers collaborations “Barcarola (You Must Be a Christmas Tree)” and “Carol of St. Benjamin the Bearded One” to the glitchy, psychedelic epic “The Child With the Star on His Head.” It’s a strange journey, but the artist sees his now 100-song seasonal undertaking in a different light; ten years in, Sufjan Stevens, who once met Steven Spielberg and introduced himself as a Christmas songwriter, feels that it’s imperative for him to leave the project behind.

Read more here.