Another week, another weekly playlist.

Maybe not the coolest thing to post a Spotify playlist after that bullshit appeal action they did earlier in the week. Makes that note at the bottom of this weekly playlist even more important. Support the artists that matter to you and buy their records. Still it’s not the customers’ fault that the current streaming royalty payout model is fucked up. The big music addicts like yours truly will always keep on buying records, but I think we’ve reached a point where we can’t convince the masses to buy physical records anymore. So paying a monthly fee is definitely a positive contribution to the world of music. We just need to put pressure on the tech companies and music business to spread that money in a more fairly manner. I hope someday they go with the user-centric model instead of the current pro-rata model. I’m a simple guy, so I feel like if I listen to only The Weather Station during a month, she should get everything from my monthly fee after Spotify’s own cut. I would be happy to pay a bigger monthly fee, if the money would go to the artist that I actually listen to instead of the major label acts. Hopefully there will be a some kind of resolution to the problem soon. It might not be easy, but I’m sure it’s possible for both the tech companies and the songwriters to thrive in the streaming world.

Anyway, on with the weekly playlist. Lots of great albums again. Norwegian I Was A King released their wonderful pop album Slow Century (produced by Norman Blake) and Clara Baker her folk treasure Things To Burn. I don’t usually include the reissues and compilations on this playlist, but surely I have to make an exception with the previously unreleased Townes Van Zandt recordings. There’s also a song from the great new albums by The Wild Reeds, Rosie Tucker, Caleb Elliot, The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness, Howe Gelb, Joybird, Ryan Tanner, Rachel Toups, Nick Waterhouse, Stella Donnelly, Helado Negro and Danny Schmidt. My big favourites from a week ago, Katie Spencer and The Fire Harvest are here with another song, because I love these albums.

The lone Finnish entry this week is the gorgeous new single from Antti Autio. I’m sure there had to be more, so sorry if I missed something important.

On the international charts, we got the debut singles from Logan Ledger who is a name to keep an ear on. There’s two of them, so check out the other one too. There were also parade-worthy new singles from Christian Lee Hutson, Bart, Jacob Miller, Bedouine, Roseanne Reid and Caroline Spence. Again I could just as well namedrop them all, because I really like all of these songs and again had to drop some out because I didn’t want to expand this further than 40 songs. This includes the big ones like The Black Keys and The National, because I’m sure you’ve heard them elsewhere and I’m sure they are not too upset that they didn’t get on onechord.net’s weekly playlist haha. Anyway, that’s it for this week. Love you.

OCTA Weekly Playlist Episode #32

1. I Was A King – Clouds (Slow Century, Coastal Town Records, 2019)
2. Logan Ledger – Imagining Raindrops (single, Rounder Records, 2019)
3. Clara Baker – Six Days of Rain (Things To Burn, 2019)
4. Townes Van Zandt – Sky Blue (Sky Blue, TVZ Records / Fat Possum Records, 2019)
5. Christian Lee Hutson – Northsiders (single, 2019)
6. The Wild Reeds – Run and Hide (Cheers, Dualtone, 2019)
7. Rosie Tucker – Shadow of a Doubt (Never Not Never Not Never Not, New Professor Music, 2019)
8. Caleb Elliot – Get Me Out Of Here (Forever to Fade, Single Lock Records, 2019)
9. The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness – Sparkle (Dead Calm, Pretty Olivia Records, 2019)
10. Bart – Don’t Push (single, Idee Fixe Records, 2019)
11. Jacob Miller – Cut My Teeth (single, 2019)
12. Howe Gelb (feat. M Ward) – A Thousand Kisses Deep (Gathered, Fire Records, 2019)
13. Joybird – Lean In (Landing, Jirdboy Records, 2019)
14. Ryan Tanner – A Hymn For Me and You (These Eletric Streets, Lake City Records, 2019)
15. Bedouine – When You’re Gone (single, Spacebomb Records, 2019)
16. Rachel Toups – Foxes (Sundog, Peconic, 2019)
17. Caroline Spence – Who’s Gonna Make My Mistakes (single, Rounder Records, 2019)
18. Son Volt – The Reason (single, Transmit Sound, 2019)
19. Bill and the Belles – That’ll Be Just Fine (single, 2019)
20. Nick Waterhouse – By Heart (Nick Waterhouse, Innovative Leisure, 2019)
21. Black Pumas – Fire (single, ATO Records, 2019)
22. Strand of Oaks – Keys (single, Dead Oceans, 2019)
23. Sun June – Monster Moon (single, Keeled Scales, 2019)
24. Angie McMahon – Pasta (single, 2019
25. Stella Donnelly – Allergies (Beware of the Dog, Secretly Canadian, 2019)
26. Roseanne Reid – Amy (single, Last Man Music, 2019)
27. Helado Negro – Imagining What to Do (This Is How You Smile, RVNG, 2019)
28. Calming River – Portrait of a Shadow (single, 2019)
29. Antti Autio – Mustaa (single, Soit Se Silti, 2019)
30. Katie Spencer – Hello Sun (Weather Beaten, KRS Music, 2019)
31. Laura Stevenson – Value Inn (single, Don Giovanni Records, 2019)
32. Andrew Bird – Manifest (single, Wegawam Music, 2019)
33. Charley Crockett – How Low Can You Go (single, Son of Davy, 2019)
34. Lucero – ’84 300zx (with T-Tops) (single, Libery & Lament Records, 2019)
35. SASAMI – Not The Time (SASAMI, Domino Recording Co, 2019)
36. Arre! Arre! – His-Story Moves In Circles (single, PNKSLM, 2019)
37. Field Medic – Used 2 Be a Romantic (single, Run For Cover Records, 2019)
38. Danny Schmidt – Newport ’65 (Standard Deviation, Live Once Records, 2019)
39. The Felice Brothers – Poor Blind Birds (single, Yep Roc, 2019)
40. The Fire Harvest – Human (Open Water, Snowstar Records, 2019)

Playlist link

Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account.

Another week, another weekly playlist.

Here I am again with the new songs that matter to me. Such a strong week of new singles and albums. I had over 50 songs to begin with and then brutally cut it down to 40. This time I wasn’t able to revisit any of the albums from a week ago. Maybe I return them later, if there are less busy weeks. There probably aren’t until summer though.

The new albums from Durand Jones & Indications, Robert Forster and Hand Habits were the ones that I expected the most and I really like all of them. The albums from UK folk songwriter Katie Spencer and Netherlands-based band The Fire Harvest are maybe the most interesting ones for me at the moment, because there’s nothing like finding new artists to love. I’ve been really addicted to The Fire Harvest song Spring. It reminds me of Songs:Ohia. The song of the week for me together with new Damien Jurado song. It’s been just a few days so I’ve only listened to a little bit of the other intriguing album releases of the week. There are lots of them and the list includes a song from a new album by Mary Bragg, KiDD, Dee White, Lomelda, The Honey Dewdrops, Andrew Leahey & The Homestead, Steve Poltz, The Limboos, Quaker City Night Hawks, The Cactus Blossoms and Lonesome Shack. The BA Johnston album is a week or two old, but I missed it then and as a sport freak I have to include a song that’s called Our Love is Like the Cleveland Browns. On the EP front, there’s new ones from Wild Pink and Della Mae.

The Finnish part isn’t big, but quality over quantity. The playlist contains a song from the gorgeous new albums by Lanai and Jani Matti Juhani and the new singles from The Lieblings and Swan/Koistinen.

Next up is the new singles. There was a new outtake from the forthcoming Damien Jurado album and it’s obviously brilliant. The big news of the week was that Ian Noe’s debut album is on the horizon. The first single Irene (Ravin’ Bomb) is a song that already appeared on his great EP, but hey this song demands a new spin. I can’t wait to hear the album. Some big ones were the new singles from Hiss Golden Messenger, Anna Burch, Big Thief, Rosie Tucker, She Keeps Bees, Todd Snider and Brad Armstrong. I missed the Carl Schilde single and the second single from the forthcoming Charlotte Cornfield album a week ago, so I made amends and included them this time around. As usual, I could just as well namedrop all of these in this text. These are all on the playlist, because I really like them. And like I said, this time this could have easily been at least 50 songs long. I left out some excellent higher profile singles (Kevin Morby, Sebadoh etc), some albums that are objectively amazing but maybe not exactly my cup of tea (Yves Jarvis etc), some awesome covers (Rue Snider etc) and so forth. If you actually listen to this, feel free to drop hints how long this should be each week. Oh and all things are not available on Finnish Spotify (Motherhood, Bunny Boy etc). But that’s enough of pointless rambling. Here’s the playlist of the week.

OCTA Weekly Playlist Episode #31

1. Durand Jones & The Indications – Court of Love (American Love Call, 2019)
2. Robert Forster – I’ll Look After You (Inferno, Tapete Records, 2019)
3. The Fire Harvest – Spring (Open Water, Snowstar Records, 2019)
4. Katie Spencer – Weather Beaten (Weather Beaten, KRS Music, 2019)
5. Hand Habits – Jessica (Placeholder, Saddle Creek, 2019)
6. Damien Jurado – Lincoln (single, Mama Bird Recording Co / Loose Music, 2019)
7. Ian Noe – Irene (Ravin’ Bomb) (single, National Treasury Recordings, 2019)
8. Hiss Golden Messenger – Everybody Needs Somebody (single, Merge Records, 2019)
9. Mary Bragg – I Thought You Were Somebody Else (Violets as Camouflage, 2019)
10. She Keeps Bees – Coyote (single, BB*Island, 2019)
11. Big Thief – UFOF (single, 4AD, 2019)
12. Anna Burch – St. Adalbert (single, Heavenly Recordings, 2019)
13. The Smallgoods – Satellite (single, Lost and Lonesome, 2019)
14. The Lieblings – Girl on the Run (single, Stupido Records, 2019)
15. KiDD – A Picture I Don’t Want To Paint (Chance Weekend, Zenerino Records, 2019)
16. Starflyer 59 – Hey, Are You Listening? (single, Tooth & Nail Records, 2019)
17. Lomelda – Talk (M for Empathy, Double Double Whammy, 2019)
18. Charlotte Cornfield – Storm Clouds (single, Next Door Records, 2019)
19. Rosie Tucker – Lauren (single, New Professor Music, 2019)
20. Lanai – Joanna (Ship’s Bell, 2019)
21. C. Gibbs – Geraldine (single, 2019)
22. Dee White (feat. Ashley McBryde) – Road That Goes Both Ways (Southern Gentlemen, Warner Music Nashville)
23. The Honey Dewdrops – More Than You Could Say (Anyone Can See, 2019)
24. Andrew Leahey & The Homestead – Queen and King of Smaller (Airwaves, Skyline Music, 2019)
25. Steve Poltz – Shine On (Shine On, Red House Records, 2019)
26. Todd Snider – Talking Reality Television Blues (single, Aimless Records, 2019)
27. BA Johnston – Our Love Is Like the Cleveland Browns (The Skid is Hot Tonight, 2019)
28. The Limboos – Where Did She Go? (Baia, Penniman Records, 2019)
29. Quaker City Night Hawks – Pay to Play (QCNH, Ligthning Rod Records, 2019)
30. The Cactus Blossoms – Easy Way (Easy Way, Walkie Talkie Records, 2019)
31. Carl Schilde – Top 40 (single, 2019)
32. Sam Evian – Roses (single, Saddle Creek, 2019)
33. Swan/Koistinen – Diagnosis (single, Soliti, 2019)
34. Jani Matti Juhani – Sinä yönä (Piste, 2019)
35. Wild Pink – Coaches Who Cry (5 Songs EP, Tiny Engines, 2019)
36. Lola In Slacks – Postcript in Blue (single, Slacks Records, 2019)
37. Lonesome Shack – Past the Ditch (Desert Dreams, Alive Naturalsound, 2019)
38. Della Mae – Bourbon Hound (The Butcher Shoppe EP, Rounder Records, 2019)
39. Mike Ross – Young Man (single, Taller Records, 2019)
40. Brad Armstrong – Brother Ford (single, Cornelius Chapel Records, 2019)

Playlist link

Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account.

Another week, another weekly playlist.

Already the 30th episode of this silly weekly playlist. That’s already an insane amount of time spent on something that doesn’t have a whole lot of significance. But I don’t really mind that much, because this is always a good exercise and keeps me on the loop of what new music is out there. Oh and I do know that I still miss a ton of stuff each week, but at least somewhat less than before I started doing these every week.

My most anticipated albums this week were from Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin, UK’s country soul queen Yola and Californian folk rock band China. That just a tip of the iceberg though and the week gave us new albums from Adia Victoria, Apples with Moya, Emily Scott Robinson, Matthew Logan Vasquez, Vandoliers, Our Native Daughters, Susto, Luther Russell, Spencer Burton (acoustic version of his latest album). There’s also a song from a couple of older ones that I missed when they were released (Andrea Von Kampen and The Maureens).

The small Finnish section contains gorgeous new singles from Salainen avaruusohjelma and Lanai plus a song from the brand new M album Näytän missä asun that came out on Friday on Solina Records.

Again a bunch of magnificent new singles too. For example those Clara Baker and Caleb Elliot albums are shaping up to be awesome, because all of the advance singles have been so great. This week we also got the first taste from forthcoming albums by Steven Lambke, Aldous Harding and Justin Townes Earle. There’s also the latest single from Ian Daniel Kehoe now on the list. I still haven’t come into terms with the fact that I forgot to put it on this list a week ago. I’m ashamed. Oh and there’s a new song by Teenage Fanclub. They are #2 on my all-time favorite bands list, so a new song TFC song is always a big deal. And as usual, I could just as well namedrop all of these bands/artists, because I like each and every song on this playlist.

That’s it for this week. Sorry that I’ve been such a lousy excuse of a blogger for the last few weeks. Somehow this again feels like a struggle and even somewhat irrelevant to keep it up. It’s not even that I don’t have time, because I’ve spent like a trillion of hours hitting f5 on hfboards following NHL trade action. I’m still too stubborn to quit this though. I’m not sure whether that is a good thing or not. I’ll try to pull myself back together and fall in love with this again. Meanwhile there will be at least this one post each week. Hopefully something else too during the next week, but no promises whatsoever. Perhaps I should just come up with more daily, weekly, monthly features, because doing this weekly thing has become a routine. Even a routine that I enjoy. It’s just so easy to let things slide and therefore it’s good to have some structure that keeps me going.

OCTA Weekly Playlist Episode #30

1. Julia Jacklin – Good Guy (Crushing, Transgressive Records, 2019)
2. Yola – Ride Out In The Country (Walk Through Fire, Easy Eye Sound, 2019)
3. Aldous Harding – The Barrel (single, 4AD, 2019)
4. China – Satan’s Got a River (And the Nothing Happened, Royal Oakie, 2019)
5. Adia Victoria – Devil Is a Lie (Silences, Atlantic, 2019)
6. Caleb Elliot – Burns Like Hell (single, Single Lock Records, 2019)
7. Clara Baker – Things To Burn (single, 2019)
8. Steven Lambke – Fireworks (single, You’ve Changed Records, 2019)
9. Ian Daniel Kehoe – One Picture (single, Tin Angel Records, 2019)
10. Teenage Fanclub – Everything is Falling Apart (single, PEMA, 2019)
11. Quivers – You’re Not Always On My Mind (single, Hotel Motel Records, 2019)
12. Apples With Moya – To Be Adored (Get Behind The Horses, 2019)
13. Strand of Oaks – Ruby (single, Dead Oceans, 2019)
14. Emily Scott Robinson – Ghost in Every Town (Traveling Mercies, 2019)
15. Matthew Logan Vasquez – Ghostwriter (Light’n Up, Dine Alone Music, 2019)
16. Vandoliers – Miles and Miles (Forever, Bloodshot Records, 2019)
17. Molly Tuttle – Million Miles (single, Compass Records, 2019)
18. Carla Geneve – 2001 (single, Dot Dash Recordings, 2019)
19. Birch Pereira & The Gin Joints – You Know It Hurts Me (single, 2019)
20. Justin Townes Earle – Ain’t Got No Money (single, New West Records, 2019)
21. Durand Jones & The Indications – Long Way Home (single, Dead Oceans, 2019)
22. Our Native Daughters – I Knew I Could Fly (Songs Of Our Native Daughters, 2019)
23. Caroline Lazar – Only One (single, Reading Past Bedtime, 2019)
24. Andrea Von Kampen – Portland (Old Country, 2019)
25. Ryan Dugre – Tonight (single, Birdwatcher Records, 2019) <-Sibylle Baier Cover!
26. Salainen avaruusohjelma – Hehkuviin tuuliin (single, Nefer Maglev, 2019)
27. M – Puolipilvistä säätä (Näytän missä asun, Solina Records, 2019)
28. Lanai – Hold onto Nothing (single, 2019)
29. The Wild Reeds – Giving Up On You (single, Dualtone, 2019)
30. Damn Tall Buildings – Late July (single, 2019)
31. Susto – House of the Blue Green Buddha (Ever Since I Lost My Mind, Rounder Records, 2019)
32. Silver Lake 66 – Ragged Heart (single, 2019)
33. Luther Russell – Talking To Myself (Medium Cool, Fluff and Gravy, 2019)
34. The Maureens – 20 Years of the Company (single, 2019)
35. Justin Rutledge – Good Man (single, Outside Music, 2019)
36. Spencer Burton – Songs of Hurtin’ (Songs Of (acoustic), Dine Alone Music, 2019)
37. Conor Donohue – The Garden (single, 2019)
38. Steve Sloane – I Will Not See Myself Today (Near Death, 2019)
39. Hayes Carll – I Will Stay (What It Is, Dualtone, 2019)
40. Robert Ellis – Lullaby (Texas Piano Man, New West Records, 2019)

Playlist link

Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account.