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BetteTheRed said:
Heard this one sorta by accident yesterday. CBC has a weekly top 20 show, which is usually just the contemporary top 20. I listen to it, because it's good for me to know what popular music sounds like. But sometimes, they do more 'fun' top 20s. This week's is the top 20 songs with whistling from the past 20 years. #2 was a fun tune by Deep South, a 4-piece band from Regina.

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I like them and have heard that song before several times. Bluegrass with a wicked sense of humour.
 
That puts me in mind of Steve'n'Seagulls. They're actually Finns, even if they dress like Southern US hillbillies and play bluegrass-style instrumentation. They mostly do covers of rock and metal, and have teamed up with some top Finnish singers in those genres. Here they are with a fave of mine, Tarja.

This is one of her solo hits:


And a song from her days as lead singer of the band Nightwish (in fact, one of my favourite NW songs):

 
Mia X Ally have dropped another video, their version of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, originally by The Charlie Daniels Band. And guess what? They both sing on this one, Mia as "Johnny" and Ally as The Devil. And they changed all the pronouns, too. And Ally plays the Devil's "fiddle" part on her bagpipes. And the whole thing is really just freaking awesome.


Mia, by the way, is no stranger to this piece. She was the video editor for a cover of it done by her and some classmates at Berklee College of Music a couple years ago.

 
BetteTheRed said:
Heard this one sorta by accident yesterday. CBC has a weekly top 20 show, which is usually just the contemporary top 20. I listen to it, because it's good for me to know what popular music sounds like. But sometimes, they do more 'fun' top 20s. This week's is the top 20 songs with whistling from the past 20 years. #2 was a fun tune by Deep South, a 4-piece band from Regina.

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Love love love this band. "You are My Sunshine" is interpreted with so much pathos
 

This is a friend/ bandmate of another artist I’m enjoying named Ren. He plays guitar in the band Big Push. He’s French, but based in the UK. They’re part of an informal artists collective doing a new thing. Thank God.
 
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JayneWonders said:
His favourite band is Rise Against
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I came across them while listening to some contemporary punk in prep for my entry in a punk-themed writing contest. Quite a good bad, and lean into the more metallic end of punk rather well. I think some of their stuff was even tagged as metalcore, a genre I am developing an appreciation for (think the bastard child of punk and metal).

My musical tastes are going weird on me again. For some reason (probably because I listen to the alt-pop band Cannons) I got recommended the South Africa-born, UK-based singer-songwriter Baby Queen. Complete off my beaten path, but I quite like her stuff for some reason that I still have not got my head around. She's quite confessional at times, touching on being queer (she is bi) and her addiction issues in her songs. Sings but also recites very poetic lyrics.

 
Here in NB as elsewhere we listen to a lot of fey BS ... it does fly! Often packed in political crocks ...

As the saying goes: "The night was dark, the sky was blue and thro' the Eire ..."

Gabriel? Maybe Sac Hmoes ...
 
BetteTheRed said:
I have CBC Radio 2 Music playing all day, every day. I muck around with time zones so that I get all of the shows I want, as I wish.
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And here was I thinking you used a ham radio and shortwave powered by nettle tea :3

Number stations are so fun

"one! three! six! twelve!..."
 
Finnish soprano rock singer Tarja has a lovely new album out. It's an acoustic album recorded live in Wacken Church in Germany during the 2016 Wacken Open Air music festival. The setlist includes some of her own songs, covers of bands like Metallica and Linkin Park, and one song from her days in Nightwish. This is one of her own solo songs, dating to her 2007 album My Winter Storm.

 
And if I didn't know this was by masked metal band Slipknot, I would never have realized it.

 
I have loved "The Unforgiven" ever since Metallica released it in 1991 and the metal ballad works beautifully in this arrangement.

 
And I thought I posted this somewhere before but can't find it just now. It's another interesting take on a Metallica classic, an instrumental version of "Nothing Else Matters" featuring Mia Asano on violin and Tina Quo on cello. Both women play both electric and acoustic versions of their respective instruments here.

 
Another new video from Icelandic jazz singer Laufey, as well as an audio-only release for her next single. I am increasingly surprised that I have not heard of her before. The twenty-four year-old has apparently been doing a bang-up job of getting Gen Z to listen to vocal jazz (being as she's Gen Z herself, of course).

First off, "From the Start" has been earworming me for a while now as Laufey has released a string of Tiktoks promoting it. Earlier this week, the official video finally dropped.


And then "California and Me" featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra as her backup came out yesterday as a "visualizer" (moving images but not a full video).

 
And speaking of Gen Z artists, Erie, Pennsylvania trio Concrete Castles dropped their sophomore album Brand New Me today. With it comes a new single. Starting as 3/4 of the cover band First to Eleven (the fourth is bassist Ryan Krysiak), Concrete Castles features three talented twenty-somethings who have been playing together since at least high school. Audra Miller gets a lot of the spotlight as lead singer but guitarist Matt Yost and drummer Sam Gilman are incredibly talented and provide Audra with terrific backup in both Castles and F211.

 
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