Here’s the latest edition of Squawkin’ Good Radio! This week’s show features new adds from Pure Youth, Pity Sex, Programm, Yumi Zouma, Maria Usbeck and Foxtails Brigade, plus selections from some of my other favorite recent releases. Take a listen below:
Squawkin’ Good Radio 6/1/16
Last night’s show is now up on Mixcloud! This show featured great new songs from FAWNN, Speedy Ortiz, Operators and a Bob Dylan remix by Animal Collective! If you missed this week’s show, you can listen here:
Weekend Mixtape #5: 5/8/16
Time for another set of my favorite recent Soundcloud discoveries! I’ve been busy enjoying the Waking Windows festival in Winooski this weekend, but I’ve found time to bring you this great set of songs including new music from Moonface, Marissa Nadler, Mercury Girls, Wilder Adkins and more! Take a listen below and let me know which songs you liked best!
Squawkin’ Good Spring Mixtape
Apologies for the lack of Weekend Mixtapes the past few weeks. I’ve been really busy and haven’t had time to work on the blog as of late. I have still been discovering lots of great new music over the past few weeks, much of which I haven’t been played on my show yet. So I present the Squawkin’ Good Spring Mixtape featuring my favorite new songs I’ve discovered on Soundcloud plus a few other favorites I’ve been enjoying lately.
Some highlights this time around: my favorite track off of DTCV’s new album Confusion Moderne, you may remember them from the song “Miley Cyrus Wins the Race”, one of my favorite songs of 2016. Also, there’s a fun tune from the Swedish band Two Year Vacation, a perfect song for the warmer weather from The Hazy Seas, a new track from Mt. Wolf who you may remember from “VIII”, another of my favorite songs from 2015, plus great remixes of Saintseneca and Destroyer songs. Take a listen and let me know which songs you like best and I’ll get them on my show in the next few weeks!
Upcoming Releases – Spring 2016
We’re already 2 months into 2016. That means the weather will finally start getting warmer here in Vermont, aside from the occasional March snowstorm. It also means a whole bunch of new music as the release schedule picks up, and this spring is no exception. March 4th is particularly stacked with new albums from the indie/alternative sphere, and lots of other great artists will be releasing albums later in the spring including The Thermals, Bibio, Yeasayer, Frightened Rabbit and two new albums from Islands. Here’s what you have to look forward to this spring:
March 4
Dead Stars – Bright Colors (Weird Tree)
Jennifer O’Connor – Surface Noise (Kiam)
Kitten – Heaven or Somewhere in Between (Scary Kids)
La Sera – Music For Listening to Music To (Polyvinyl)
Miike Snow – III (Downtown/Atlantic)
Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are (Barsuk)
Poliça – United Crushers (Mom + Pop)
Prince Rama – Xtreme Now (Carpark)
Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place – You’re Doomed. Be Nice. (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Sego – Once Was Lost Now Just Hanging Around (Dine Alone)
Thao & the Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive (Ribbon)
Wintersleep – The Great Detachment (Dine Alone)
March 11
Bent Shapes – Wolves of Want (Slumberland)
Brian Fallon – Painkillers (Island)
Lucius – Good Grief (Mom + Pop)
Into It. Over It. – Standards (Triple Crown)
The Wild Feathers – Lonely is a Lifetime (Warner Bros.)
March 18
Cullen Omori – New Misery (Sub Pop)
Damien Jurado – Visions of Us on the Land (Secretly Canadian)
Dustin Kensrue – Thoughts That Float on a Different Boat (Vagrant)
Lust For Youth – Compassion (Sacred Bones)
March 25
Bob Mould – Patch the Sky (Merge)
RJD2 – Dame Fortune (RJ’s Electrical Connections)
The Joy Formidable – Hitch (Canvasback/Atlantic)
The Range – Potential (Domino)
The Thermals – We Disappear (Saddle Creek)
White Denim – Stiff (Downtown)
April 1
Andrew Bird – Are You Serious (EMI)
Com Truise – Silicon Tare (Ghostly International)
Bibio – A Mineral Love (Warp)
Moderat – III (Mute/Monkeytown)
Mogwai – Atomic (Rock Action)
Weezer – Weezer (White Album) (Crush Music)
Yeasayer – Amen & Goodbye (Mute)
April 8
Deftones – Gore (Reprise)
Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack (Canvasback/Atlantic)
Woods – City Sun Eater in the River of Light (Woodsist)
April 15
Bear Hands – You’ll Pay For This (Spensive Sounds)
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes – PersonA (Community Music)
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop – Love Letter For Fire (Sub Pop)
April 22
April 29
Holy Ghost! – Crime Cutz EP (DFA)
Pity Sex – White Hot Moon (Run For Cover)
Rogue Wave – Delusions of Grand Fur (Easy Sound)
May 6
Aloha – Little Windows Cut Right Through (Polyvinyl)
White Lung – Paradise (Domino)
May 13
Islands – Taste and Should I Remain Here at Sea? (PledgeMusic)
Nothing – Tired of Tomorrow (Relapse)
Oscar – Cut and Paste (Wichita)
The So So Glos – Kamikaze (Votiv)
May 20
Marissa Nadler – Strangers (Sacred Bones)
May 27
Gold Panda – Good Luck and Do Your Best (City Slang)
Listen to songs from each of these albums below:
*I will be updating this list as more albums are announced.
Squawkin' Good Tunes 