October Picks

October was another busy moth with lots of new music. Here are my top selections.

Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/fluid3sally/playlist/7cqKCyNl98fR5o2RiyVdef

YouTube Playlist:  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWm4729w0mtfmgXG-t98TuepQtVRBvCUz


























Cold Kingdom - Cold Kingdom (EP)
a candidate for AOTY. a strong hard-rock record from Minneapolis
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV_RbZceiCY


Skarlett Riot - Regenerate
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPKyzZjxNk8


Estrons - Cold Wash (EP)
only 2 songs, but they kick so much ass it feels like a major record this month
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDG14a_o8_A


Anavae - Are You Dreaming?
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaWC3oPnvN4


Bully - Losing
on Subpop and from Nashville.. I really like her voice
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cia7HOYxj8w

Yonaka - Heavy (EP)
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w7PWbsrf_k


Melkbelly - Nothing Valley
noisy and math-y
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqkUz8iikCE


St. Vincent - Masseducation
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9TlaYxoOO8


Beck - Colors
Beck has lost me in recent years with some real sleepers. I haven't been a huge fan since Odelay, but he got his swagger back on  this one.
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fljhX_aR3rE


King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Sketches Of Brunswick East
second record this year from this band, that has been slowly growing on me
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXb74bUbRM


Pale Honey - Devotion
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zZEckgXg14


Jetty Bones - Old Women (EP)
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEyUNmfT6aE


Vuur - In This Moment We Are Free
latest group featuring Anneke van Giersbergen (you might remember her from such bands as The Gathering)
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap1ITPCD1zY


The Worriers - Survival Pop
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mElOfyHoU-c


Dream Nails - Dare to Care (EP)
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNVnSfzAUHM


Girli - Hot Mess (EP)
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-2Mrws6zGc


Bad Mary - Glitter Bomb
video (Police cover): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9I5LMSjL_o


Hey Charlie - Young & Lonesome
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HuxglCzJwM


Makthaverskan - III
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFD8M291FLQ


Neaux - Chain Up The Sun
audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EES-f8fjRxU



Funk In The Trunk
a lot of cool funk this month. remember, you can't spell spunk without funk (well, you could, but why would you?)


Rock Candy Funk Party - The Groove Cubed


Bootsy Collins - World Wide Funk
This cat played with P-Funk, and even James Brown at one point.
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVL7WUPvjnc


Funkadelic - Reworked by Detrioters
ok, not really new. these are some classics redone


Ohio Players - just a single, but still..



Heavy

• Butcher Babies
• Sons of Apollo

Oops! I missed it.
a few that I missed in their respective months. better late than never.

• My Own Ghost - Life on Standby (April)
• Waax - Wild & Weak (June)

Singles

• Sleater-Kinney
• Marmozets - video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxM0ili0kM
• MisterWives - audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTpzQl_vspQ
• Magic Wands
• Screaming Females - video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9GlmrLa1AE
• Tonight Alive - video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xf0jQSP83I
• Sleigh Bells
• Love Past Blue
• Giant Kitty
• Diamante

Close but nope
these didn't do it for me either, but may be of interest to some readers
(damn, there were a lot of these this month!)

• Weezer
• Courtney barnett
• Rachel Platten
• Unsane
• Fringe Element
• Nocturnal Rites
• Hollywood Undead
• Echosmith
• Bonerama
• Perish
• We Came As Romans
• Veil of Maya
• Angelspit
• Alyeska
• New Politics
• Alex the Astronaut
• And So I Watch You from Afar
• Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats
• Stars
• Coldrain
• Kermit Ruffins
• H2O
• My Ticket Home
• Poppy
• Kim Logan
• Demar
• Trivium
• Thousand Below
• Dai Burger
• Cults
• Iron Monkey
• Tough Age
• 10 Years
• Baxter Dury
• Yumi Zouma
• Red
• Foz
• Pink
• Terra Lightfoot
• Jetty Bones
• GWAR!
• Wu Tang
• Alex Lay
• The Used
• Alex Lahey
• Layne
• Perish
• Wyldest
• Liam Gallagher
• Steps
• Awaken I Am
• June Divided
• Red

that was a busy month. stay tuned for more. until the end of November, stay strong, rock on, write on.