In Their Words: “Human beings are messy emotional creatures. Sometimes when we struggle to communicate in relationships it’s because there’s the voice we speak with and that voice in our head. ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’ bounces between a professed love to another person and a confessed loneliness on the inside.” — Andrew Grimm, June Star
Ahead of his forthcoming album, the Duluth-based musician Tony Petersen, aka Ditchbird, immerses in a burst of energy that’s packed with sharp hooks and a warm melodic sweetness on his latest single “Be Good to Yourself.”
Listen to this week’s State of the Art Spotify playlist featuring:
K Michelle Dubois – Waves Break (Baby Robot Records)
BROCKHAMPTON, Danny Brown – BUZZCUT
Coma Girls – Wedding Roses (Baby Robot Records)
Arlo Parks – Hope
Ditchbird – Be Good To Yourself
tUne-yArDs – make it right.
Parker Woodland – Hit by a Bus
Foxing, WHY? – Speak With the Dead
Guitarmy of One – Emma Bella Citronella
Wavves – Sinking Feeling
This Way to the EGRESS – Last Call
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – O.N.E.
Stetch Panic – I Can’t Help It, (I’m a Zombie Now)
St. Vincent – The Melting of the Sun
Karaoke – Lo Hi
Nick Cave, Warren Ellis – Old Time
Carissa Johnson, The Cure-Alls -The Upside
Kurt Deemer Band – Rain
Japanese Breakfast – Posing in Bondage
Juana Everett – Light up a Fire
Simona Smirnova – Preliminary Inquiry – Original soundtrack to The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928 French silent film directed by Carl Dreyer)
You, Me and This Fuckin’ Guy – Owls
Abhi the Nomad – Cable Car
Home is Where – Sewn Together from the Membrane of the Great Sea Cucumber
Scout Durwood – Millennial Malaise (Blue Elan)
SeepeopleS – It Feels Heavy
The Deathray Davies – You and Me Until the End (State Fair Records)
Kooley High – Lazy Sunday
Fog Lake – Dakota
Squid – Paddling
Show Me The Body – Rubberband
Kane Strang – Happy to Perform
The Armed – An Iteration
All in all, the newest from Helland’s Guitarmy of One will strike a chord with those schooled in the way of 1960s-era surf rock and Henry Mancini themes… READ MORE
Discover new gems in the wide world of folk and Americana, packed with singer-songwriters and bluesmen, blue collar troubadours and full-out rockers united by a sense of tradition and an affinity for great storytelling. (Cover: Laura Veirs // Photo: press)
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Today’s Song of the Day is “Real Enough For You Now” the new single from Ditchbird, out now.
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