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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #294

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A late Sunday evening new music weekly.

The album of the week is the new one from Caleb Caudle. We also have new albums from Hannah Juanita, Dominic Angelella, Sima Cunningham, Ned Collette (I thought this was next week, but seems to be available now. Not sure if that is a mistake or not), The Cactus Blossoms, Justin Golden, Floating Action, Shady Cove, Why Bonnie, Thee Heart Tones, David Ritschard (EP).

Finnish part of this has albums from Jukka Takalo, Kumma heppu ja lopunajan voidellut (this was last week, but missed it then), Toni Hautamäki, Jonna Tervomaa plus an EP from STINAKO. Some singles gold too by Iron Country Sisters, Rock Siltanen Group, Solemn Golem, Markus Asunta, Miika Leivo and VON KONOW.

International single of the week is the new one from Katie Baggs. Other early faves came from Adeline Hotel, P:ano, Jennifer Castle, Your Heart Breaks, Max Bien Kahn again just to name a few. I also liked a lot of 54 Ultra songs that I came across this week and included one of them even though they are some weeks or months older.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Back next week. Love love love.

1. Caleb Caudle – The Brim (Sweet Critters, Missing Piece Records)
2. Hannah Juanita – Tennessee Songbird (Tennessee Songbird)
3. Dominic Angelella – God Loves a Scammer (God Loves a Scammer, Dumb Solitaire)
4. Sima Cunningham – For Liam (High Roller, Ruination Record Co)
5. Ned Collette – Bridges of Sunlight (Our Other History)
6. The Cactus Blossoms – Statues (Every Time I Think About You, Walkie Talkie Records)
7. Floating Action – The Poison King (Cheey, Airloom)
8. Justin Golden – St. James Infirmary (Golden Country: Volume 2, Vocal Rest Records)
9. David Ritschard – Europa (Innan tystnaden tar vid, Universal)
10. Shady Cove – True (Part II,
11. Why Bonnie – Headlight Sun (Wish on the Bone, Fire Talk)
12. Katie Baggs – The Words Are Ours (single)
13. Adeline Hotel – Grief (single, Ruination Record Co)
14. P:ano – a bit of coquitlam (single, C.O.Q Records)
15. Jennifer Castle – Lucky #8 (single, Paradise of Bachelors / Solstice Radio)
16. Your Heart Breaks – It’s You That I’m Still Learning (single, Do it for the Girls Productions)
17. Max Bien Kahn – Whatever You Want (single, Well Kept Secret)
18. Thee Heart Tones – Need Something More (Forever & Ever, Big Crown Records)
19. 54 Ultra – What More Can I Do (single, That’s Love Records)
20. Tasha – Love’s Changing (single, Bayonet Records)
21. Pearl Charles – Does This Song Sound Familiar (single, Taurus Rising Records)
22. The Mellons – Please Baby Please (single, Earth Libraries)
23. Rock Siltanen Group – Dio Selvissä (single, Rockia ja sporttia)
24. Solemn Golem – Time to Eat The Rich Is Long Gone (Dressed for Destruction pt.II) (single, Piiri)
25. Kumma heppu & lopunajan voidellut – Tähän on tultu (Vain tuuli jää tänne, Zen Master Records / Rockadillo Records)
26. Toni Hautamäki – Jonakin iltana (Lauluja EU-Suomesta)
27. Miika Leivo – Tuhma kuva (single, Valassaaret)
28. Jukka Takalo – Kemin savut (Jokivarsien laulut, Valassaaret)
29. Markus Asunta – Laulujesi loimussa (single, Humble House Records)
30. Jonna Tervomaa – Aioin jättää sut tänään (SUPERAURINKO, Sony Music)
31. STINAKO – Forgiveness (Body EP, Soliti)
32. Von Konow – After Summer (single)
33. Iron Country Sisters – Grace (single, Soit Silti)
34. Noeline Hofmann – August (single, La Honda Records)
35. Idanha – Rough String (Spoiled Horses) (single)
36. Mac Leaphart – Rosey (single, Mac Leaphart Music)
37. Sophie Gault – Kid on the Radio (single, Petaluma Records)
38. Jack Browning – Champagne Taste (single)
39. Teddy and the Rough Riders – Hippies (single, Appalachia Record Co)
40. Dogs at Large – Louisiana (single)
41. Nick Flessa feat Austin Leonard Jones – This One’s for the Watchers (single, Anxiety Blanket Records)
42. Björn Peter Thisell – Human Animals (single, Ella Ruth Institutet)
43. Thorsten Nesch – Rain is falling like a curtain (single, Polterzeitgeist Records)
44. Holy Matter – The Dove (single, Royal Oakie Records)
45. Allegra Krieger – Came (single, Double Double Whammy)
46. Bess Atwell – More than Science (single, Real Kind Records)
47. Caroline Says – Faded and Golden (single, Western Vinyl)
48. John Myrtle – We’re Tearing the Heart Out of Love (single, Soup Sounds)
49. Braden Lawrence – You Walk Across the Room (single, Anxiety Blanket Records)
50. Styrofoam Winos – Angel Flies Over (single)
51. Mr. Husband – Waiting (single, Airloom / Good Soil)
52. Kiwi Jr. – Gold Star For Robot Boy (single, Fontana North)
53. Young Scum – Peach Ice Cream (single)
54. Bad Moves – Outta My Head (single, Don Giovanni Records)
55. Chime School – Say Hello (The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel, Slumberland)
56. The Secret Beach – Hat’s Way of Walking (We were born here… Victory Pool)
57. The Softies – Bed I Made (The Bed I Made, Father/Daughter Records)
58. Rosy Boa – Up Against the Wind (Love Truth Time EP)
59. Wren Kitz – Indecision’s Nest (The Thinker, Feeding Tube Records)
60. Michael Cloud Duguay – He/Hymn (Succeeder)

Spotify Playlist

Tidal Playlist

YouTube Playlist

A few Bandcamp cuts for the lovely non-streamers:





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

I’ll make the playlist on Spotify and then transfer it to other platforms. This means a few tracks might be missing from the from the other platforms, if they are not available there. Oh and there’s a bunch of older episodes on my Spotify profile, if you miss an episode or want to revisit.

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 if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each weekend.

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The Lostines, Chris Acker, Max Bien-Kahn, Desiree Cannon

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Another short and quick post of songs/videos that I love. A New Orleans edition.

The Lostines from New Orleans are one of my big favorites of 2024. Their new album Meet the Lostines might even end up being my AOTY when it is time to wrap 2024 in to the history books. I think it would be, if I made that list today. That’s how much I love this album. Here are Full Moon Night and Neon Lights from this 5/5 album.

The Lostines at Facebook

Staying in New Orleans. That previous Neon Lights video had a lot of other familiar faces too. One of them was Chris Acker who is about to release his next album Famous Lunch in October. The awesome first single Shit Surprise just came out last week.

Chris Acker at Facebook

More New Orleans and even newer, because the latest Max Bien Kahn single and music video Whatever You Want just came out today. Full album Flowers will follow November 1st, so don’t submit those aforementioned AOTY ballots before that.

Max Bien Kahn Website

Desiree Cannon’s album Radio Heat is also one of my big 2024 favorites. Desiree Cannon is based in Oakland, California, but there’s a big New Orleans connection here too and this is actually a good companion to that The Lostines album as well. Especially this song video song called Tower. Wonderful stuff.

Desiree Cannon at Facebook

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Flora Hibberd, St. Lenox, Jake McKelvie, Fonteyn

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Just a quick post of songs and music videos that I love.

First long-time fave Flora Hibberd with a song called Canopy from the forthcoming album Swirl. So eager to hear this album, because I love Flora Hibberd’s songs and this was also produced by Shane Leonard and features J.E.Sunde at least on this song. I love all these people I’ve never met and they all belong in the imaginary hall of fame of this little music blog.

Flora Hibberd Website

Next something pretty new for me. I didn’t know singer-songwiter Jake McKelvie before I heard this new album A New Kind of Hat a couple of weeks ago. I’ve had it on heavy rotation lately and like the album a lot. Sometimes it kind of reminds me of Darren Hanlon.

Jake McKelvie Website

The great St.Lenox is also getting ready to release a new album. Ten Modern American Work Songs will come out on 25th of October on Don Giovanni Records. I always love his songs and music videos too. The first single Rudy is not an exception. Plus there’s a beautiful dog and two beautiful cats there too on the video. What’s not to love.

St. Lenox Website

This song has been out since February, but this not really an active music blog outside of that one weekly new music playlist. But I loved this Fonteyn single back then and still do. So here’s some seventies kinda gold from 2024 to wrap up this tiny blog post.

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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #293

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The Softies has a new album. How lovely is that. Loved them so much during my indie kid days. And still do as a middle-aged americana guy. A great release week altogether as well. We have new albums from Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Chime School, The Secret Beach, Michael Cloud Duguay, Paige Plaisance, India Ramey, Rosy Boa (EP, a new one for me, but really liked this on quick listen), Wren Kitz, Andrew Combs, Bill (EP), Giant Day, The Medium, Benny Trokan, Emma Russack, Wild Ponies, Embla and the Karidotters, Ruthie Foster, Lydia Loveless (new versions of Somewhere Else songs) and Glenn Musto. Btw, Glenn has a couple of shows in Finland next week. Thursday in Helsinki and Friday in Turku.

The Finnish part is again my favorite, because there’s a new ITE EEROLA song in this world and in my heart. A shoulder to lean on right there. There’s also beautiful new singles from Lempi Elo, Henna Emilia Hietamäki, Saimaa, Joose Keskitalo & The Mystic Revelation of Teppo Repo and 1980 AD. Oh and at the end there’s another song from last week’s Hattara album.

International single of the week is the first one from the forthcoming new St.Lenox album. Check out the new music video too, because those are always great and this one has two cats and a dog too. What’s not to love. Other early faves came from Chris Acker, Fiver, Joanna Sternberg, Christian Lee Hutson, Jenina MacGillivray and Adam Selzer. Again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters when I ponder the essence of this music blog and playlist. This thing hits 23 years in less than a month. That’s a long time to invest on a small music blog. But most times it feels like it was worth it. This one was again a good live music week too, because I got to see The Darts (US), Nightbird and Faarao Pirttikangas. Can’t really beat live music. Anyway, back next week and all that. It will be late on Sunday then I think. Love love.

1. The Softies – Go Back in Time (The Bed I Made, Father/Daughter Records)
2. Chime School – Another Way Home (The Boy Who Ran the Painsley Hotel, Slumberland Records)
3. The Secret Beach – Natural Metaphor (We were born here, what’s your excuse, Victory Pool)
4. Rosy Boa – Transfiguration (Love Truth Time EP)
5. Michael Cloud Duguay – Crabtree (Succeeder, Watch That Ends the Night)
6. Wren Kitz – Vast Amiss (The Thinker)
7. Andrew Combs – Point Across (Dream Pictures, Loose Music)
8. Bill – Dealer’s Choice (Magic Trick EP)
9. Giant Day – Fair Dues (Glass Narcissus, Elephant 6 Recording Co)
10. The Medium – Frown Town (City Life, Earth Libraries)
11. Benny Trokan – Save a Place for Me (Do You Still Think Of Me? Daptone Records / Wick Records)
12. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Howdy Howdy (Woodland, Acony Records)
13. Paige Plaisance – Out of Sight, On My Mind (Louisiana Lonely, Timeless Echo)
14. India Ramey – Piece of My Mind (Baptized by the Blaze, Mule Kick Records)
15. Embla and the Karidotters – I Need Some Light (Off Leash, Die With Your Boots On Records)
16. Wild Ponies – Love You Right Now (Dreamers, No Evil Records)
17. Ruthie Foster – Good For My Soul (Mileage, Sun Label Group)
18. Lydia Loveless – Wine Lips (Something Else, Bloodshot Records)
19. Emma Russack – Things You Said (About the GIrl, Dinosaur City Records)
20. Glenn Musto – Empty Starters (Unravel, Fire Sky River Earth)
21. St. Lenox – Rudy (single, Don Giovanni Records)
22. Jenina MacGillivray – Fireweed Jam (single)
23. Fiver – Spinning Out & Going Nowhere (single, You’ve Changed Records)
24. Christian Lee Hutson – Beauty School (single, Anti Records)
25. Joanna Sternberg – A Country Dance (single, Fat Possum Records)
26. Ite Eerola – Näidenkin seinien takana (single, Panama-levyt)
27. Lempi Elo – Kesäsade (single, Eclipse)
28. Henna Emilia Hietamäki – Maan alle (single, Soliti)
29. Joose Keskitalo & The Mystic Revelation of Teppo Repo – Hän on kalastaja (single, Helmi Levyt)
30. 1980 AD – Mikä vie sen pois (single, Alakulttuuritalo)
31. Saimaa – Nouse kyytiin (single, Love Records)
32. Adam Selzer – Everything For You (single, Jealous Butcher Records)
33. Abigail Lapell – Serpent a sonnette (single, Outside Music)
34. Gold Star Gold Star – What a Shame (single)
35. Toby Goodshank – Fly as We Fry (single)
36. Kasey Anderson – Believers (single, Nervous Kid Records / In Music We Trust)
37. Peter Bruntnell – Out of the Pines (single, Domestico Records)
38. Chris Acker – Shit Surprise (single, Gar Hole Records)
39. JP Harris – Dark Thoughts (single, Bloodshot Records)
40. Benjamin Tod – Satisfied With You Love (single, Benjamin Tod / Thirty Tigers)
41. Bob Sumner – Is It Really Any Wonder (single, Fluff & Gravy Records)
42. liv. – give me one reason (single, Red Moon Recordings)
43. Laura Jane Grace – Baby, Baby (single, Red Scare)
44. Joe Kaplow – Wanderer (single, Sonder House)
45. Jacksonport – Mystery and Magic (single, Ay Caramba Records)
46. Erisy Watt – Tear Apart (single, First City Artists)
47. Cassie Ramone – He’s Still On My Mind (single, CD-R Records)
48. Fightmilk – No Souvenirs (single, Fika Recordings)
49. The High Water Marks – YFF (single, 6612 Tapes)
50. Charlie Kaplan – Cloudburst (single, Glamour Gowns)
51. William Harries Graham – Ohio State (single, Strolling Bones Records)
52. Well Well Well – Highway Mile (single, Royal Oakie Records)
53. The Junipers – My Imaginary Friend (single, Cuckoo Records)
54. Alfie Firmin – Dream Come True (This Time Around, An Onionheads Production)
55. Hattara – Juhlat jatkuvat (Ehkä me nähdään huomenna, Cotton Candy Company)

Spotify Playlist

Tidal Playlist

YouTube Playlist

A few Bandcamp cuts for the lovely non-streamers:





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

I’ll make the playlist on Spotify and then transfer it to other platforms. This means a few tracks might be missing from the from the other platforms, if they are not available there. Oh and there’s a bunch of older episodes on my Spotify profile, if you miss an episode or want to revisit.

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 if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each weekend.

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