LWA Blog — life without algorithms

NewDad are here with their lovely cover of The Cure's classic, Just Like Heaven. Don't forget, NewDad's first album, Madra, dropped earlier this year and you can grab it on their site or wherever you get your physical media. 

What an exhilarating pop gem. Joyride, the new album from Norwegian pop princess, Astrid S, is out now.  

Not super controversial, but this is the early front-runner for song of the summer, as far as I'm concerned. So smooth, so sexy. Get acquainted, if you haven't already, and stick it on your summer playlist. 

I just discovered Kate Clover kinda around the end of last year. Right off the bat, her voice reminded me of early Siouxsie. I love the pop/punk sound, she and her band pretty much nail it. I had 2022's Bleed Your Heart Out on constant rotation. Vinyl was sold out, I kept checking the site and soon enough there was a second pressing available, so I grabbed that. And then, she announced a new album, The Apocalypse Dream, which is out now (and is another banger). I also got to catch her playing at the Kilowatt in SF. So good....

Sometime in 2002, I think it was, maybe 2003; I was living in an apartment on Potrero, across from the hospital. It was a terrible location. The sirens from the hospital were all day and night. Potrero led to freeway a few miles south and people drove that street like they were already on the freeway. Super noisy and dangerous. In any case, a friend came over to hang out one day. It had been some time, at least two or three years, but we fell into it easily, just chatting and catching up like we always did. We had some lunch...