On this first weekend of June, we celebrate with 44 songs from across the globe on the Weekend Showcase 4.21. Some familiar names, plenty of hidden gems, and just one radical playlist. The artists and bands come from eight countries, including: Australia, Belgium, England, Germany, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.

Weekend Showcase 4.21

First single from the LP afterville, due late 2022

Face

Why scream at people 
Just to let it all out
All the fighting and yelling 
What’s it all about
Kill em all
Rise and fall
It’s not your fault
Ego death kult
Always shit talking
What you on about
Try say nothing
Listen to what it’s about
Close your eyes baby
Let it all out
Sit in silence
And let it all out
Let it all out

PAWS

Ego Death Kult

‘Life’ is French Alps Tiger’s sixth single and comes ahead of their debut E.P, to be released digitally and on 12” vinyl in the spring of 2023. FFO: Weezer, FIDLAR, Wavves, & Bass Drum of Death. Produced by Chris Dimas of Canada's Surf Dads & Bleeker.

Russ (French Alps Tiger) explains, "If you can spank your entire ethos on living into a 2 and a half minute bop, you might be bad at being a person. ‘Life’ is our rage-stomping ode to embracing the stuff they didn’t mention at the end of Train-spotting, cuz you never woulda made it going straight anyway. A pack of tissues for your daddy issues, and a warm pint of “I didn’t ask to be born, Mam!”

Life

Music toys with time. Or, maybe songs reflect back that time is always toying with us. The world of a song takes hold of us like an eternity to be lost in, with its repetitions and variations, but ultimately, as with everything else, it has a start and then ends. And there’s no place to lose time like San Francisco, where there are no seasons and all the seasons occur within one day; where the fog takes the space where your plans might have been; where there’s insane wealth all around and everyone you know and love is hanging on at the periphery and making art on any given Tuesday night. About Glenn Donaldson’s new record, "The Town That Cursed Your Name," he says, "I realized as I was piecing it together that it's a song cycle about trying to live while also feeling called to make music." It’s a double life when it works and a deeper doubleness to mirror the Gemini nature of songs themselves. "The Town That Cursed Your Name" contemplates this problem with wryness, generosity, and the micro- and macroscopic realness Donaldson is known and loved for.

Whereas the 2022 collection "Summer at Land's End" was a softer, gauzier world, "The Town That Cursed Your Name" is heavier, with fuzzed lines running through. "Leave It All Behind" starts out with an amorphous whine but quickly launches into something both supremely melodic and buzzing at the edges. "Here Comes the Lunar Hand" is an impressionist geometry that seems to capture the album’s themes without telling you how. Lyrically, Donaldson embraces the earnestness of his heroes Paul Westerberg and Grant McLennan. Sonically, late '80s college rock is filtered through song-forward lo-fi acts like East River Pipe and House of Tomorrow-era Magnetic Fields. Like the images that accompany his releases – flowers and residential street scenes are pushed to the breaking point with color – Donaldson’s songs are at the same time dazzling and lurid, beautiful and burdened, not unlike life as a musician around here.

In the liner notes, Donaldson dedicates the record "to everyone who ever tried to start a band in the Bay." There will be many knowing smiles at his title "Too Late For An Early Grave." But, this dedication captures something else about the particular strain of sincerity that laces the city water supply – the front man around here is on stage under those lights evincing the fervor not of the pop star but of the biggest fan.

-Karina Gill

The Town That Cursed Your Name

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Town That Cursed Your Name

All Her Plans

Crashing Through

Long Long Long

Long Long Long (Acoustic)

Places

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Astrologer - "Eternal Friday" (DIGI ALBUM)
the debut album from avant pop genius, Astrologer!
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ASTROLOGER - "Downey Girl"

Taken from the 2-track 'Rise' single on Matinée Recordings.

Rise

Azure Blue - Rise

Oakland, CA mainstays Lunchbox are back with Pop and Circumstance, an explosive new album draws on influences from both sides of the Atlantic. Besides its obvious debt to the hard end of the 1970s UK mod-revival and the jangle of 1980s British indiepop, the record proclaims Lunchbox’s continued allegiance to the 1960s/70s Southern California pop sensibility and love for the classic AM radio pop single.

Over the course of their almost thirty year career Lunchbox have always impressed with their ability to mine gold from the ore of pop history, and this terrific new record shows them at their best. From the bubblegum mod pop of "Dinner for Two" to the junkshop soul of "Love for Free," the Who-adjacent power pop of "Summer’s Calling" to the horn-driven grooves of "Is this Real?," "Pop and Circumstance" transposes Lunchbox’s unique blend of influences into a transcendent new key.

Pop And Circumstance

Pop and Circumstance

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Lunchbox - Dinner for Two

Popular Fiction

New Religion

Casanova

Released on the 11th of May 2018 via Eggy Records.

Recorded and mixed in Fresh Good Studios, Birkenhead by Matthew Freeman in January 2018. Mastered in Chicago by Carl Saff, February 2018.

Artwork by Mat Greaves.

Words and music by Eyesore & the Jinx.

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