Category: Indie Rock

Best Albums of 2020: The Just Joans – The Private Memoirs and Confessions of The Just Joans

Described as the missing link between The Magnetic Fields and The Proclaimers This Sextet from Glasgow, Scotland has been making music for over a decade now.

A clever mix of Pop sensibilities and clever songwriting their songs are short bursts of sunshine Pop with bits of Post Punk thrown in for good measure.

Their latest, chock-full of descriptive song titles including the ode to The Ramones, “Hey Ho, No Go,” “Who Does Susan Think She Is” along with the highly excellent “The One I Loathe The Least” are all narrative gems.

The band name itself comes from, ‘Just Joan’, a column in the Daily Mirror and the entire-set wears the groups Scottish heritage loudly and proudly.

Cover Song of the Day: Orville Peck – I Will Always Love You

Orville Peck, with his Classic Johnny Guitar Western wear and tasseled face mask he always wears to add to the mystery, is one of our favorite new artists of 2019. Here for Concert 4 no 1, he pays tribute to two of his heroes, Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton.

Video of the Day: The Third Mind – Claudia Cardinale

A Supergroup of sorts, the band includes Dave Alvin, Jesse Sykes among others. The concept for the group centers around the Miles Davis method, a technique where there are no rehearsals or written musical arrangements. The band simply decides on a key and the music flows from there. The sound is very much influenced by the ’60s underground scene including Roky Erickson, Alice Coltrane, and Michael Bloomfield. Look for an E.P. to be released February 2020.