Weekend Showcase 2.09

The playlists we’ve featured each week have been pretty special, but the one for the Weekend Showcase 2.09 just might be the best one yet. It features a wide-spectrum of music – indie rock and old school rock ‘n roll, indie-pop and electro-pop, alt-folk and traditional folk, shoegaze and psychedelic pop. Fifty-six (56) songs are on the playlist, featuring artists with roots in Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US.

The list of articles from the past week is below. The full tracklisting for the Weekend Showcase 2.09 follows the SoundCloud playlist. Whether your weekend is coming to a close or you’re just starting the work week, we hope you have a wonderful day and may the Weekend Showcase be the icing on the cake.

Premieres:

• Kyle Meadows – “Low Time Call” (single premiere)
• Leach – “Bad Luck” (single premiere)
• Lexi Strate – “Waves” (album premiere)
• Lilies on Mars – “Rachel Walks By The Sea” (video premiere)
• Sweat – “Keep Tight” (single premiere)

Albums:

• Carter Tanton – Jettison the Valley (Western Vinyl)
• Good English – Good English (self-released)
• IDestroy – Vanity Loves Me (self-released)
• Kelly Oliver – Bedlam (Folkstock Records)
• Lucius – Good Grief (Mom+Pop Music)
• Nada Surf – You Know Who You Are (Barsuk Records)
• Unloved – Guilty of Love (Kobalt Music)
• Wildhart – EP1 (Gaphals)

Singles:

• Melodic Tonic ’16, vol. 9 – Crater, Dinner, Drowners, Mind Spiders, Samaris, T.O.L.D.
• The Matinee March 8th – Acapulco Lips, Bleached, Julia Jacklin, Lyves, The Pack A.D., Weaves
• The Matinee March 9th – Half Waif, hd hausmann, Mock Suns, Nigel Hall, Night Games, Them Swoops
• The Matinee March 10th – Ashley Shadow, Dream Wife, Eagulls, Henri Bardot, Spookyland, Star Parks
• The Matinee March 11th – BRONCHO, Gallery Circus, The Gloomies, Sizzy Rocket, The Wild Wild
• Rendition, episode 2.09 – Astronauts etc., Cabu, Clayjay, Danelle, Harriet Brown, LOLAWOLF, Shana Halligan
• Saturday Sampler for March 12th – Animal Noise, Beverly, Bob Mould, Cassius ft. Cat Power & Mike D, Fly Moon Royalty, Jesse Mac Cormack, Living Hour, Summer Heart, Vivid Dreams, Young Magic

Other:

• Aldous Harding’s powerful performance at Meow, Wellington (photo essay)
• Tinashe energizes Theatre Corona (photo essay)

 

 

Weekend Showcase 2.09 Tracklist

• Samaris – “Wanted 2 Say” (Reykjavik, Iceland)

• The Gloomies – “Bleached Out” (Encinitas, CA, USA)

• Fly Moon Royalty – “Grown Man” (Seattle, USA)

• Acapulco Lips – “Awkward Waltz” (Seattle, USA)

• Good English – “Girl” (Dayton, OH, USA)

• Julia Jacklin – “Pool Party” (Sydney, Australia)

• Leach – “Bad Luck” (Austin, USA)

• BRONCHO – “Fantasy Boys” (Oklahoma, USA)

• Animal Noise – “Sink or Swim” (Colchester, UK)

• Dinner – “Turn Me On” (Denmark)

• The Wild Wild – “When We Were Young” (Santa Cruz, CA, USA)

• Ashley Shadow – “Tired” (Vancouver, Canada)

• Carter Tanton – “Jettison The Valley” ft. Marissa Nadler (Baltimore, USA)

• Eagulls – “Skipping” (Leeds, UK)

• Gallery Circus – “Holland On Fire” (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)

• Sweat – “Keep Tight” (Montreal, Canada)

• Unloved – “Guilty of Love” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Shana Halligan – “Something Real” (Tensei Remix) Ft Adad (Los Angeles & Chicago, USA)

• Beverly – “Contact” (Brooklyn, USA)

• SPOOKYLAND – “Big Head” (Sydney, Australia)

• Kyle Meadows – “Low Time Call”(Charleston, VA, USA)

• Nada Surf – “Cold To See Clear” (Brooklyn, USA)

• Vivid Dreams – “FBI Undercover” (Brooklyn, USA)

• Star Parks – “Theoretical Girls” (Austin, USA)

• Young Magic – “Lucien” (Brooklyn, USA via Jakarta & Sydney)

• Cassius – “Action” feat. Cat Power & Mike D (Paris, New York)

• Sego – “Stars” (Los Angeles, USA via Mapleton, UT, USA)

• Jesse Mac Cormack – “After The Glow” (Montreal, Canada)

• Them Swoops – “Alright For Me” (Melbourne, Australia)

• Mind Spiders – “Running” (Ft. Worth, TX, USA)

• Summer Heart – “The Forbidden” (Malmö, Sweden)

• Lilies on Mars – “Rachel Walks By The Sea” (London, UK via Cagliari, Sardinia)

• Henri Bardot –  “Make You Love Me” (Portland, USA)

• Half Waif – “Turn Me Around”  – (Brooklyn, NY USA)

• Astronauts, etc. – “I Know” (Harriet Brown – Alternate Reality Island Vacation Version) (Oakland & Los Angeles, USA)

• Lexi Strate – “Diamond Eyes” (Edmonton, Canada)

• Dream Wife – “Kids” (Brighton, UK & Rejkjavik, Iceland)

• Crater – “Hardly at All” (Seattle, USA)

• Drowners – “Cruel Ways” (New York City, USA)

• Kelly Oliver – “Bedlam” (Hertfordshire, UK)

• Mock Suns – “Friday Night” (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

• Sizzy Rocket – “Thrills” (New York City via Las Vegas, USA)

• NIGHT GAMES – “Faithless” (London, UK)

• Bleached – “Wednesday Night Melody” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Lyves – “Darkest Hour” (London, UK)

• T.O.L.D. – “Return Forever” (Los Angeles, USA via Birmingham, UK)

• Danelle – “Chairs” (Cabu Remix) (Los Angeles, USA & Sydney, Australia)

• Nigel Hall – “Gimme A Sign” (New Orleans, LA USA)

• Weaves – “One More” (Toronto, Canada)

• Wildhart – “Fantasy” (Gothenburg, Sweden)

• The Pack A.D. –  “So What” (Vancouver, Canada)

• IDestroy – “State of the Art” (Bristol, UK)

• Bob Mould – “The End of Things” (San Francisco, USA)

• LOLAWOLF – “Drive” (Clayjay Remix) (NYC & San Francisco, USA)

• hd hausmann – “Yves Klein Blues” (London, UK)

• Living Hour – “Miss Emerald Green” (Winnipeg, Canada)

 

Supporting Labels:  Barsuk Records, Buzz Records, Cannibal Hymns Records, Captured Tracks, Dead Oceans, Descendant Records, Dine Alone Records, Dirtnap Records, Feel Music / Round Hill, Felte Records, Folkstock Records, Frenchkiss Records, Gaphals, Good Behavior Records, Help Yourself Records, Interscope Records, Kanine Records, Killroom Records, Killing Moon Records, Kobalt Music, Lefse Records, Liquid Records, Memphis Industries, Merge Records, One Little Indian Records, Paper Trail Records, Partisan Records, Play It Again Sam, Secret City Records, Thrill Me Records, and Western Vinyl.

 

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