Video of the Day #145: St. Paul & the Broken Bones

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This blog needs some SOUL and Paul Janeway is the right man to provide it. St. Paul & The Broken Bones from Alabama just released an album called Half The City about a week ago. That thing hasn’t reached Finland yet, so for the time being I will settle for youtube videos (I obviously need need need the album as well. So I have some shopping to do later on). There are a lot of great performances. Ourvinyl’s video for the song Call Me is one of those great ones. Paul is the main guy here, but because I have a lot friends who are Jason Isbell fans, it’s worth mentioning that former 400 Unit guitarist Browan Lollar plays in this band these days. Hopefully we’ll get some new solo Browan in the future as well. I was just listening to his solo EP last week an still enjoyed it a lot. Cars is such a good song. Almost like power pop and I love that. But anyway, this is St. Paul & The Broken Bones. They seem to have a bit of hype surrounding them at the moment and rightfully so. The album Half The City is now out on Single Lock Records. This is Call Me.

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St.Paul & The Broken Bones Website

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Video of the Day #144: Nick Waterhouse

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More exciting forthcoming releases. The new Nick Waterhouse album Holly is coming out in early march on Innovative Leisure. The debut was mostly great and this first single from the new album, This Is A Game, sounds mighty good to me.

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Nick Waterhouse Website

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Video of the Day #142: Viljami Kukkonen

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If you ask me what is the best Finnish album of this decade so far, I don’t need to think twice. The answer will be Mörönsyötti by Viljami Kukkonen. I love that album wholeheartedly. When I have Mörönsyötti and Office Building’s To See Only Shadows, I’m going to be ok. They are not similar, but somehow they still are like companion pieces to me. The most beautiful music I can think of.

Viljami Kukkonen recently filmed a new song with Luomustudio. The song is called Säkki and it’s another beauty. Viljami is currently working on the next full-lenght. I couldn’t be more excited. Also remember to visit luomustudio.fi weekly. There’s already a huge amount of wonderful videos and more are coming on a weekly basis. I highly recommend this Small Houses video they did when Jeremy was touring in Finland. But this is Viljami Kukkonen and Säkki.

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And this is Minä valvon nimeäsi from Mörönsyötti.

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Luomustudio Website

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Video of the Day #140: This Frontier Needs Heroes

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I’ve been listening to the new This Frontier Needs Heroes album on Bandcamp lately and one day I’m probably going to hit that buy now button. This Frontier Needs Heroes is a brother-sister duo Brad and Jessica Lauretti from Brooklyn, NY and this is the excellent title track Hooky from the new album.

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This Frontier Needs Heroes Website
This Frontier Needs Heroes at Bandcamp

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