NEW MUSIC :: FRIDAY JUNE 16, 2023
Friday/FF/RW #18 :: Featuring new & old music this week by Annie Bartholomew, The So So Glos, Foo Fighters, Origami Angel, SunYears, Blues Brothers, Flaming Lips & Bonny Doon
Press Play on another edition of Ventipop’s Friday Fast Forward Rewind. This week was a weird one for new music. Not a lot of big names, but I discovered a lot of worthy lesser-known artists definitely deserving of recognition. Check out Alaska’s Annie Bartholomew, DC’s Origami Angel, Detroit’s Bonny Doon, Brooklyn’s The So So Glos and Peter from Peter, Bjorn and John’s newest musical endeavor SunYears.
SUNYEARS :: “WORDY”
ORIGAMI ANGEL :: “THANK YOU, NEW JERSEY”
BONNY DOON :: “SAN FRANCISCO”
ANNIE BARTHOLOMEW :: “WHITE CHAPEL WOMAN”
THE SO SO GLOS :: “3000 MILES”
Here are my favorite new albums this week:
SunYears / COME FETCH MY SOUL!
Annie Bartholomew - SISTERS OF WHITE CHAPEL
Origami Angel - THE BRIGHTEST DAYS
Sigur Rós - ÁTTA
Bonny Doon - LET THERE BE MUSIC
Far From Saints - FAR FROM SAINTS
1949 - Hank Williams made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, where he received an unprecedented total of six encores.
1961 - Patsy Cline was seriously injured in a car accident. During her two-month hospital stay, her song "I Fall to Pieces" gave the singer her first Country No. 1 and also became a huge country-pop crossover hit. Cline passed away in 1963 when her flight crashed in heavy weather.
1965 - Bob Dylan recorded "Like A Rolling Stone" at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City, in the forthcoming Highway 61 Revisited album sessions.
1967 - The Monterey Pop Festival began in Monterey, CA. Within three days, 50,000 people saw the first major appearances of Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Janis Joplin. Additional performers included The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Buffalo Springfield.
1978 - The movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Grease, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, opens in US theaters.
1980 - "The Blues Brothers", starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, premiered in Chicago.
2000 - Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, featuring "Stan" and "The Real Slim Shady," began an eight-week run at No. 1 in the U.S.
2015- Dave Grohl falls off the stage and breaks his leg during a Foo Fighters show in Gothenburg, Sweden. He gets medical attention but returns to finish the show, propped up while someone holds his leg. The rest of their European tour is canceled while he gets surgery, but the tour resumes on July 4 in Washington, DC, with Grohl performing from a custom-made guitar throne.
2017 - The National Music Publishers Association gave Yoko Ono the Centennial Award for Song of the Century and added her name to the credits of the award-winning song, "Imagine." John Lennon took the sole credit, but later admitted he got the idea from Yoko's book Grapefruit, where she wrote things like, "Imagine 1000 suns in the sky at the same time."
2019 - Radiohead avoided a blackmail attempt by releasing 18 hours of music recorded during the making of their classic album OK Computer. Tapes from the sessions had been stolen by hackers who demanded $150,000 for their return. Instead, the band released the tapes in full, with profits going to climate crisis activists Extinction Rebellion. "For 18 pounds you can find out if we should have paid that ransom," said guitarist Jonny Greenwood in a statement.
2020 - Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Flaming Lips performed their tune "Race For The Prize" from inside massive plastic bubbles on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Each audience member was also enclosed in their own bubble to keep the coronavirus at bay.
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