New music including Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Etta Marcus, Goat Girl and Underworld and Kettama on this week’s West Of The Fields podcast
I continued delving into recent releases from Yard Act, Omni, Sleater-Kinney, Mannequin Pussy, Faye Webster, Future Islands, Lime Garden, The Last Dinner Party and NewDad on the show this week, while the retro alternative set served as a sort of sequel to last week’s ’70s power pop block, with an extended look at the ’90s heirs to the power pop sound, inspired by the recent Pitchfork Sunday Review of the Gin Blossoms’ classic “New Miserable Experience” album. I also included a couple tribute sets to some notable musicians we lost in the last couple weeks, Karl Wallinger, former Waterboys member and founder of the underrated turn-of-the-’90s psych rock band World Party, and Eric Carmen, a big solo hitmaker in the late ’70s and ’80s but whose best work came as frontman for power pop gods The Raspberries.