I've been enjoying the sessions from LIKA on YouTube. Recently she has been providing the full track list. She uses Spotify and I use Apple Music, so here's the same thing but for Apple Music. She also has a Patreon if you like doing that sort of thing.

I'm very excited to finally be seeing Sleigh Bells live. This will be in San Francisco at August Hall, which I've never been to and I'm hoping it's awesome. Based on their shows on setlist.fm, this appears to be the set list:

You can go through the overdone web version or just look at this infographic.

Here's the 2024 musical brain dump. This is very much inspired by jwz's music wrap-up. I know there's still a couple of days left in 2024, but I doubt anything will get added. This is just in order from oldest to newest and I'm not including any commentary other than I'm going to see The Vaccines in Portland and K.Flay in Sacramento. Bands link to the best guess at their website and the ablum links to a service that will link to whatever your streaming service of choice.

Please enjoy...

• The Vaccines - Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations
• Blur - The Ballad of Darren
• Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore
• KMFDM - LET GO
• Kid Cudi - INSANO
• STRFKR - Parallel Realms
• Kaiser Chiefs - Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album
• Teleman - Good Time/Hard Time
• Bleachers - Bleachers
• MGMT - Loss Of Life
• The Jesus and Mary Chain - Glasgow Eyes
• The Libertines - All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade
• James - Yummy/Pudding
• The Black Keys - Ohio Players
• Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers (Original Score)
• Garbage - Lie to Me (EP)
• Pet Shop Boys - Furthermore (EP)
• Pet Shop Boys - A new bohemia (EP)
• Velocity Girl - UltraCopacetic (Copacetic Remixed and Expanded)
• RJD2 - Visions Out Of Limelight
• Moby - always centered at night
• GROUPLOVE - I Want It All Right Now
• Washed Out - Notes from a Quiet Life
• James - 1999 Singles & B-Sides
• Kasabian - Happenings
• µ-Ziq - Grush
• The Rifles - Love Your Neighbour
• Swim Deep - There's a Big Star Outside
• Barns Courtney - Supernatural
• The Vaccines - The Hits
• Empire Of The Sun - Ask That God
• Blur - Live at Wembley Stadium
• Pet Shop Boys - Feel (EP)
• Hooray For Earth - Racy
• AWOLNATION - The Phantom Five
• Tycho - Infinite Health
• Mondo Cozmo - It's PRINCIPLE
• Brigitte Calls Me Baby - The Future Is Our Way Out
• The Kills - Happier Girls Sessions (EP)
• The Prids - I Only Care About You and Me
• Ladytron - Live at London Astoria
• Bear Hands - The Key to What
• Phantogram - Memory of a Day
• Japandroids - Fate & Alcohol
• The National - Rome
• Pixies - The Night the Zombies Came
• Underworld - Strawberry Hotel
• Courteeners - Pink Cactus Café
• Ladytron - Time's Arrow Remixed
• Artemas - yustyna
• Pet Shop Boys - New London boy / All the young dudes (EP)
• Cold Cave - Passion Depression
• The National - Cherry Tree Vol. 6 (Vinyl)
• Primal Scream - Come Ahead
• K.Flay - I'm Making Friends with the Silence (EP)
• The Reyton's - Ballad of a Bystander
• Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
• Garbage - copy/paste, vol. 1 (abridged) (EP)
• Fatboy Slim - Elevator Music: Fatboy Slim DJ Mix
• Tycho - Where You Are (EP)
• Curve - Rare and Unreleased
• Ladytron - Ladytron (Remixed & Rare)

It's a great time to be me, as it seems a ton of bands I love are releasing new music. Here's a quick run down.

• KMFDM - LET GO (Single)
• Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (Vector Lovers Lost Version)
• K.Flay - Carsick (Single)
• Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore
• The Jesus and Mary Chain - jamcod (Single)
• The Vaccines - Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations
• Spector - Here Come the Early Nights

Enjoy.

Music collections have definitely gotten weirder as streaming corrupts even the most devout collectors. I am no exception. Here are the albums which were released in 2022 that I "added to my Library". In the past I've included any music that I came across, ignoring when it was released. I'm too lazy for that amount of work now, so it's been limited to released during the year. In some instances I was able to purchase the music directly from the artist. I would like to see more of that. Especially in colored vinyl.

• K.Flay’s double EP Inside Voices / Outside Voices was absolutely fantastic.
• White Lies As I Try Not To Fall Apart is very White Lies.
• Bloc Party Alpha Games. Bloc Party for me is now a lot like Björk, in that I was really into the music...and then I wasn’t.
• Killing Joke Lord of Chaos EP I mean…why not?
• Wet Leg Wet Leg Like everybody else in the world, I grabbed it. It's good. Reminders of early Elastica. Note that it doesn't sound like Elastica, just that there are sounds that remind me of Elastica.
• Jack White Fear of the Dawn is pretty damn raucous.
• Arcade Fire WE while whatshisname may be a creep, The Lighting II was on heavy repeat for me.
• The Black Keys Dropout Boogie is very Black Keys.
• Scapegoat Wax Atomic Slam (Back to 99!) I first heard the track Reckless before I knew anything about Scapegoat Wax and figured this was going to be a huge, huge hit. And, it is for me. I love this track.
• The Kills No Wow (The Tchad Black Mix 2022) Gritty
• µ-Ziq Magic Pony Ride beep beep boop boop!
• Liam Gallagher C’MON YOU KNOW You know, Oasis but not Oasis.
• Metric Formentera. Fantastic album.
• Interpol The Other Side of Make-Believe Maybe I haven't listened enough, but it's been tough to get into new Interpol stuff.
• Jamie T The Theory of Whatever A very fun album.
• Orbital 30 Something A really nice collection of tracks/mixes.
• Kasabian The Alchemist’s Euphoria It's just odd without the original lead singer.
• Santigold Spirituals is very nice.
• KMFDM Hyëna is very "new" KMFDM.
• Built to Spill When the Wind Forgets Your Name
• Secret Machines Secret Machines They opened for Metric on tour.
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cool It Down. Spitting Off the Edge of the World is perfect.
• Pixies Doggerel didn't quite grab me like Beneath the Eyrie did.
• Vacant Lots Closure
• Kid Cudi Entergalactic
• Broken Bells INTO THE BLUE
• Dropkick Murphys This Machine Still Kills Fascists If the title sounds familiar, it's Woody Guthrie you're looking for.
• The 1975 Being Funny In A Foreign Language
• Arctic Monkeys The Car
• Fitz and The Tantrums Set Yourself Free
• Leftfield This Is What We Do seemingly out of retirement? Maybe?