Weekend Showcase 3.34

On this first weekend of September – a long weekend for some around the world – let the sparks fly with the Weekend Showcase 3.34 edition. This mega-playlist features 52 fantastic new songs, including a few song-of-the-year candidates. So sit back, grab a cold one, and play these sweet tunes by artists representing 12 countries. They are Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, and the United States.

The playlist and tracklisting, as usual, follows the list of articles from the past week. The Spotify playlist features 47 songs.

Enjoy the great music and discover music’s hidden gems.

Premieres:

• Blake Berglund – Realms (album premiere)

Albums:

• Gordi – Reservoir (Jagjaguwar)

• Nadine Shah – Holiday Destination (1965 Records)

• Widowspeak – Expect the Best (Captured Tracks)

Singles:

• The Matinee August 28th – Black Pistol Fire, Emmecosta, Josh Jacobson, King Krule, Nick Ferrio, Rain On Monday

• The Matinee August 29th – The Bowdashes, Canshaker Pi, FUSS, Good Girl and the Bad Times, Lean Year, MAUER, The National, Twain, Wolf Parade

• Melodic Tonic ’17 August 30th – Matthew Dear, Moses Hightower, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Alan Getto, Sparks, Zola Jesus

• The Matinee August 31st – A. Savage, Alex Lahey, Baxter Drury, Broen, Courtney Marie Andrews, Curtis Harding, Jonathan Bree, The Vaughns, Wolfy

• The Matinee September 1st – Ephrata, Great News, Michael Malarkey, Mobley, Nightshifts, Other States, OWEL, Sløtface, Wy

• Saturday Sampler September 2nd – Beach For Tiger, Odonis Odonis, Pale Honey, PAWS, Phantogram (Future Islands remix), Psyence, Shapes On Tape, Sleep Party People, TOPIA, Weakened Friends (feat. J. Mascis)

Other:

• Fluffer Pit Parties – Deap Vally, Baby in Vain, and Yassassin (photo essay)

• Fluffer Pit Parties – Japandroids, Bad Breeding, and Yowl (photo essay)

• King Nun – Finsbury Pub, London (photo essay)

Weekend Showcase 3.34 Tracklisting

• Widowspeak – “Dream” (Tacoma and Chicago, USA)

• Other States – “Come Back To Me” (Brighton, England)

• Sløtface – “Backyard” (Stavanger, Norway)

• Black Pistol Fire – “Lost Cause” (Austin, USA via Toronto, Canada)

• Lean Year – “Come and See” (Richmond, VA, USA)

• Wy – “You + I” (Malmö, Sweden)

• Sleep Party People – “Poor Leno” (Copenhagen, Denmark)

• Matthew Dear – “Bad Ones” (feat. Tegan and Sara) (Ann Arbor, USA)

• TOPIA – “Lay It On the Line” (Los Angeles, USA)

• The National – “Day I Die” (Brooklyn, USA)

• A. Savage – “Wild, Wild, Wild Horses” (Brooklyn, USA)

• The Vaughns – “Santa Cruz” (Springfield, NJ, USA)

• Pale Honey – “Get These Things Out Of My Head” (Gothenburg, Sweden)

• MAUER – “Ease The Pain” (Gothenburg, Sweden)

• FUSS – “Coma” (Liverpool, England)

• Michael Malarkey  – “Uncomfortably Numb” (London, England)

• King Krule – “Czech One” (Prague, Czech Republic via London, England)

• Baxter Dury – “Miami” (London, England)

• Phantogram – “Black Out Days” (Future Islands Remix) (Saratoga Springs, NY, USA)

• Mobley – “Lovely Day” (Austin, USA)

• Ephrata – “Tunguska” (Seattle, USA)

• Moses Hightower – “Fjallaloft” (Reykjavik, Iceland)

• Curtis Harding – “Wednesday Morning Atonement” (Atlanta via Saginaw, MI, USA)

• Psyence – “Black Hole” (Stoke-on-Trent, England)

• Great News – “Wonderfault” (Bergen, Norway)

• Nightshifts – “All Along” (Toronto, Canada)

• Odonis Odonis  – “Check My Profile” (Toronto, Canada)

• Zola Jesus – “Siphon” (Seattle, USA)

• OWEL – “All I’ll Ever Know” (New Jersey, USA)

• Beach For Tiger – “Something Good” (Essex, England)

• PAWS – “Omaha” (Glasgow, Scotland)

• Twain – “Solar Pilgrim” (Franklin County, VA, USA)

• Jonathan Bree – “You’re So Cool” (Auckland, New Zealand)

• Broen – “Time” (Oslo, Norway)

• Alex Lahey – “Lotto in Reverse” (Melbourne, Australia)

• Weakened Friends – “Hate Mail” (feat. J Mascis) (Boston, USA)

• Canshaker Pi – “Indie Academy” (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

• Good Girl and the Bad Times – “We Go This Way” (London, England and New York City, USA)

• Gordi – “Bitter End” (Canowindra, Australia)

• Nadine Shah – “Indie Academy” (London, England)

• The Bowdashes – “The Love & Death of The Owl Hoot Trail Riders” (Copenhagen, Denmark)

• Alan Getto – “Soap in My Whiskey” (Ligonier, PA via Brooklyn, USA)

• The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Brother” (Toronto, Canada)

• Wolf Parade – “You’re Dreaming” (Montreal, Canada)

• Wolfy – “I Can’t Lie” (feat. Huxlee) (Los Angeles, USA)

• Josh Jacobson – “Fence” (New York, USA)

• Sparks – “Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)” (Los Angeles, USA)

• Emmecosta – “A Mountain From Us” (Gothenburg, Sweden via Positano, Italy)

• Rain On Monday – “Kill My Love” (Uppsala, Sweden)

• Nick Ferrio – “Soothsayer” (Peterborough, ON, Canada)

• Shapes On Tape – “Get Ready” (Brooklyn, USA)

• Courtney Marie Andrews – “Near You” (Los Angeles via Phoenix, USA)

Supporting labels: 1965 Records, 4AD, Anti Records, Bella Union, Better Call Rob, BMG, Bolero Recordings, Cap on Cat Records, Captured Tracks, Dead Oceans, Dull Tools, Excelsior Recordings, Felte, Ghostly International, Heavenly Recordings, Hybris, ICEA, Jagjaguwar, Joshua Tree Records, Joyful Noise Recordings, Keeled Scales, Modern Outsider, Paper Bag Records, Propeller Recordings, Record Records, Sacred Bones Records, Saddle Creek, Su Tissue, Sub Pop, Telephone Explosion, This Recording Company, Welfare Sounds & Records, Western Vinyl, XL Recordings

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