This Week's Playlist #88 - The Newsletter edition
5 song picks from newsletters I'm regulary reading
Hello everyone!
This Week's Playlist - Season 2, Episode 36.
I hope all the European readers here are dealing OK with the heatwave. We are getting our 2 weeks of Summer here in London. My top-floor flat has been boiling all weekend, hence a late Sunday night post.
This week, an episode I wanted to write for a long time, for a good reason.
I've been digging some more music since I started this newsletter (I explained some of my reasons in the first email). I wanted to pay tribute to the other newsletters (& other playlisters) I'm following and drawing inspiration from.
Here are 5 tracks I discovered (or re-discover) recently in other newsletters :-)
TL;DR: I'm running a musical newsletter with a new guest sharing 5 songs each week.
There is a YouTube link for each of the songs on the cover, and here are the playlists for each streaming platform:
Tidal (coming soon)
Deezer (coming soon)
1. Deftones - Entombed
A song from "Koi No Yokan", one of the later albums of the Californian alternative metal monsters. I somehow forgot about this album, and it took me until a couple of weeks when this song was mentioned by one of the recent guests of "Sa'alouni El Nas", a newsletter focusing on a weekly guest feature of someone in the MENA community and their favourite songs.
Deftones albums are definitely like good wines, getting better with time.
2. Hemlock Erns & Kenny Segal - Dow
It's not a newsletter per se, but Amoeba Music (the California-based records store) runs this "What's in my bag" series on YouTube where musicians come dig records and tell a story and why they pick them on camera. I'm a huge fan and watched too many of them (maybe the topic for another newsletter).
One of my favourite episodes features Samuel Herring, the singer of Future Islands (the synth-pop band). First, I never heard of this band before, and since the guy is a huge hip-hop nerd and his digs are so inspiring, I dug his solo works under the moniker Hemlock Ernst.
It's one of the most refreshing hip-hop tracks I've listened to in the last couple of years.
3. Smashing Pumpkins - Galapagos (Instrumental / Sadlands Demo)
Another gem from the Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness demo sessions with a chilled Sunday vibe.
Incidentally, I discovered this song on the last episode of another (excellent) weekly music newsletter, Herb Sundays.
4. Ikue Asazaki - Obokuri
Another YouTube series I watch regularly is Track-ID from one of the French online media, Konbini, where musicians (mainly DJs, mostly in French) are asked about some of their favourite songs or songs which played a big step in their lives.
It also keeps me updated with the new cool kids around the block. One recent episode was with an upcoming Belgian / Congolese hip-hop artist and her wide range of music tastes. I discovered this Japanese folksinger.
Very soothing.
5. Patti Smith - Dancing Barefoot
Again, it is not playlist-related per se. Still, Patti Smith is also on Substack (the platform supporting this newsletter) and regularly posts (free) updates, writings, poems and videos. Seeing artists of her amplitude running a regular newsletter is really refreshing.
Until the next time, Godspeed!
Thomas
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