June Selections

Another month with a lot of good records. There seem to be some prevalent themes.. lots of dirty garage rock, soft electro-rock, and metal/hard rock.

As usual, I offer a Spotify playlist with 1 or 2 samples from each selection, here:
https://open.spotify.com/user/fluid3sally/playlist/5vC902x8p6oxdPX9aMZzOc

new this month, I offer also a YouTube playlist, with 1 video from each top selection.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5-H-9C1SLfcMImiUsyYNBlJkaB69SmLt

Also, you can find the youtube link for each song throughout this post



Dorothy - RockIsDead
debut album from LA spunkers. dirty and diggin it
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW4vejDcVe8


Evarose -  Invisible Monsters
from UK, second full-length. rocks your heart out.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzAkYSS5jsE


Ladyhawke - Wild Things
The highly anticipated 3rd record from down-under (New Zealand) multi-instrmentalist and song-writer Ladyhawke. good songs, good sounds.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUwAnVX2ylc


Tegan and Sara - Love You To Death
I've not been a big Tegan and Sara fan in the past. Perhaps I was missing out, because this one is sounding really good.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJOHoiPGpac


Superbus - Sixtape
really cool pop tunes, some lyrics in French. Not on Spotify yet, so I added an older one.
video from the new record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EITjoqGx168



Death Valley Girls -  Glow in the Dark
dirty garage rock. somewhere near the intersection of Dum Dum girls and Erase Errata
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKDiOqzNyfg


Rival Sons - Hollow Bones
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93KFbeGzQAc


LetLive. - If I'm the Devil
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_xsklXWzEQ


Garbage - Strange Little Birds
not what I had hoped.
separate review here: http://joelspunkrock.blogspot.com/2016/06/new-record-garbage.html
video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSa_hbutFt0



Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Getaway
an obvious choice, but a good one. this record has some phat beats and funky base.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0oIoR9mLwc


Incognito - In Search of Better Days
funk with roots in the late 1970's. a good time.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLpJVE2Z9bY



Broods - Conscious
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsxtBVLyss


The Interrupters - Say it outloud
ska band from LA; second full-length. I'm not impressed by this band's sound.. formulaic like so many ska bands before. But I do like her smoky voice... enough to earn a spot on the month's playlist.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEwCe679DUI


Singles

• Deep Valley
• Chvrches - featuring Haley Williams of Paramore
• the Strokes
• She Makes War
• Beck 
• Fea
• Cafune - I missed their new single in May, so it is included here.
• Icon for Hire has some new songs this month. I'm waiting to receive the full record in December before I say much more about that.

Heavy: 
6 good finds for the metal-head in me -- that's a lot of metal!

• Beartooth
• And Then She came
• Secret Rule
• Jorn
• Scorpion Child
• Stitched Up Heart 

Close but nope:


Neko Case, K.D. Lang and  Laura Veirs - This is a collaboration among some big names. Neko Case from the New Pornographers, K.D. Lang was famous for some song when I was young and Laura Veirs, a prolific song-writer. I was not impressed by this record, but if you like mellow singer/song-writer folk music, I can see how this might appeal.