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Here it is friends, Radio Free California Episode 2528! New music this week from Hot Chip, Emma Harner, Caeseria, Jon Batiste, Lola Young, .38 Special, Wet Leg, Brenda Mtambo, Press Club, The Korgis (!!!), Mammoth, Coast Arcade and much more. Enjoy!
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So this is us now?
Someone needs to go to jail. Hope they can figure out who under all those masks/balaclavas/no badges.
No matter the turf, no matter the jurisdiction, private contractors are always more vicious than government employees/soldiers.
This is why you #DefundIce Senator Fetterman. This is why.
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I'm the one who requested it.
Dont.
Touch.
Lola.
A sketch portrait of agent coulston from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., another patron request!
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New music this week from a newly revived Kesha, NoSo, Ethan Tasch, The Vanns, The Lemonheads, Men Without Hats (in a glorious return to form), Blake Rave, Lucius, Remerge Band, Curtis Harding, Ida Marie and so much more. Enjoy!
Not a lot of people release music on the 4th of July weekend so I really had to go digging into new singles and indie bands. That said, the new Kesha album, the first on her own label, is really pretty good. It sounds to me like she had a "let's liberate Taylor Swift" moment of her own. A lot of it is a breakup album, but it's also about freedom and I for one have to applaud that spirit.
In the new singles department is the GLORIOUS new single from Men Without Hats, called "I Love the 80's". To be fair to them, they never actually went away, but I dare you to name a single song of theirs other than "Safety Dance". We just haven't been listening. We should - the new song is fantastic.
I think my favorite discovery this week is NoSo, who has only releaseed a few singles so far. The songwriting and production is first rate, and I've been listening to thei singles a lot the past few days.
It's also nice to see Evan Dando and his collection of misfits known as The Lemonheads still out there plugging away.
I'm not a fan of auto-tune, but there are two songs this week by artists who use it. The first is 88rising and 8RO8's collaboration - which instead of the usual hip-hop cliches is a heart-felt tribute to 8RO8's home state of Hawaii. The other is 4stro with Kid Moon, because Kid Moon uses auto-tune on everything, which is kind of a shame as he has a good voice. But he's friggin' everywhere these days. Every week I discover a new artist because he has done a collaboration with them.
I'm not really a fan of AI music either, but there is an AI artist on this playlist, who I have featured before, called BBBL. There is a lot of controversy around right now about fake vs. real bands and the conversation can get heated. That said, I can get behind BBBL because there's obviously a guiding hand behind their sound, with real production going on.
I have been accused of promoting AI because of Remrge Band as well. I hate to break it to you, but they're a real band; I've met them. I do think they're using AI to to master their works, which a lot of digital distributors offer these days for a small fee. I've never done it myself because to my ears it all starts to sound the same, but that music does get noticed by the algorythms various streaming services use - they're AI too.
Sometimes I read the bio's of AI bands, because they're almost always so bad that they're funny.
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Which picture is "Aligator Alcatraz" Concentration Camp and which is Birkenau?
Does it matter?
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Crazy week! New music from Peter Gabriel, Fishbone, Bruce Springsteen, HAIM, Lorde, Wet Leg, From Indian Lakes, The Besnard Lakes, Infinity Song, Love is noise and much more. Even I'm in there! Enjoy!
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New music this week from Hotline TNT, Leisure, Memi, Yungbld, Daily Toll, Hembree, Easy Easy, Muse, Enuff Z'nuff(!), Motley Crue with Dolly Parton, sombr, Lorde, Colin Hay and much more. Enjoy!
An undeniable pleasure for me this past weekend was thie discovery of Hotline TNT. Not only is their new album a banger but their entire catalog is one great song after another. I cannot recomment thier new album highly enough - it was hard to limit just adding a few songs on this playlist.
You might also note a number of songs by Yungblud on this list too. What can I say? I like pop music done right, and respect for opening his album with a 9 minute track. And yes, I do think he looks like a young Dave Navarro.
At first I had thought my surprise track of the week was going to be the re-working of Motley Crue's ballad (and frankly not a great song) "Home Sweet Home" with Dolly Parton. I'm not really a fan of the song but Ms. Parton adds some depth. And then out of nowhere Enuff Z'nuff drops a new single? It's been 35 years since I gave that band any thought at all and apparently I've missed a run of albums and band lineups.
I also have to give a shout out to MEMI, a South Korean hard rocker that I blasted over and over this past week while the news got wierder and wierder.
Finally, there is the new GoGoPenguin album, which is well worth your time when you're looking for instrumental music and adult-oriented jazz that doesn't put you to sleep.
New music this week from Lorde and Lola Young tells me that the next generation is going to be all right.
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I've been alive over 6 decades and during that time Congress has not even once exercised its power to stop a President from conducting war.
Might as well admit it doesn't exist, no matter what the law says.
So I will distract you with about the most perfect gif.
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An odd week for new music but with some interesting surprises including new music from David Byrne, Neil Young, Cloud Nothings, Slow Coast, The Blindfold Experience, Huntertones, Annahstasia, Japanese Breakfast, New Candies and much more. Enjoy!
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Great new music this week from Vistas, Monkey House, Sweet Emergarde, Turnstile, Prince, Cypress Hill, beaux, Comet Gain, Moptop and much more. Enjoy!
I only discovered Vistas this past week, and what a discovery this has turned out to be. Really, you should check them out.
Monkey House looks to be attempting to wrest the "Next Steely Dan" title away from everyone else, and it's a pretty good effort.
The Cypress Hill album is the long-teased concert with the London Philharmonic. I've played previously released tracks from this before but now the whole album/concert is available and it's every bit as awesome as you'd think.
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To those of you just saying "ICE is just doing their jobs and not causing any violence":
At the link above is footage of a member of "ICE" shooting a rubber bullet into the leg of an Australian reporter. You can see him take aim before he fires.
ON LIVE TV.
By the way, I put "ice" in quotations because these are contractors. It takes 14 months of training to become an actual field ICE employee.
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Los Angeles isn't on fire
I sometimes think that people really don't understand the SCALE of Los Angeles. I still have a niece and a cousin living there. Neither one of them were anywhere close to yesterday's actions, and saw nothing.
They live 20 miles apart.
Most people in Los Angeles won't see any of this. It's over 470 square miles of suburbs, and that doesn't include the outliers - which is still MOST OF LOS ANGELES.
They want to claim that LA is on fire. Lawless. And they show the same 10 blocks over & over.
The "Los Angeles" that they want to control is the entire county, which at 4,084 square miles is larger than Rhode Island and Delaware COMBINED.
They're going to focus on specific areas where minorities are concentrated, and call it the whole city.
Los Angeles isn't on Fire. Los Angeles is at peace.
The problem is the outside agitators they are bringing in. You know, ICE.
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Fuck Texas.

RIP Jonathan Joss (December 22nd 1965 - June 1st 2025).
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Here it is my friends, Radio Free California Episode 2522! New music this week from Peach Fuzz, Ben Caplan, John Fogerty (sort of), Ministry (also sort of), Wet Leg, Lorde, Sunsick Daisy, Ty Segall, Garbage, Moptop, KennyHoopla, Beth Sarah and much more. Enjoy!
A couple of notes about this week's music starting with John Fogerty. Earlier this year he finally, finally, was able to get the rights to all of the music he wrote during the Credence days back. What happened to him is a cautionary tale to any songwriter - but for 50 years people made money off his work and he didn't get a dime. That has finally been fixed.
Fogerty has been re-recording his Creedence Clearwater Revival catalogue with his sons as the backing band, and he's going to start releasing them as "John's Version" - the first of which came out this week. This includes my favorite CCR song, "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" but also included a song I didn't even know, which I've added to the playlist this week. More to come. I hear through the grapevine (I see what you did there) that he actually lobbied his record label to call these re-recording "Taylor's Version" but the idea was shot down.
That would have been hilarious.
You will also see the same sort of thing happening with Ministry. When they evolved into an Industrial/Noise Metal band I really didn't follow along - I much preferred their synth-pop work from their early days. Well they too have re-recorded some of their old catalog (including "Everyday is Halloween") and are calling it "The Squirrely Years". This gives me the excuse to add a couple of my favorite Ministry songs to the playlist and call it new music.
My playlists, my rules.
Finally, it's worth your time to check out the back catalog of the band Moptop. The new album they have coming soon will be in English, but this is their 5th album - they're from Brazil and their previous albums are of course in Portuguese. Get past the language barrier - they're a good alt-pop band, and like I said, their new material is in English and if I hand't told you that they're from South America you'd have never noticed.
As I always say, there is great music out there, but you need to search for it. That's what I do.
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My mom worked on this show. Nice to see it back.
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June 24th, 2025
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