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In November 2020 this week's band will be touring the club circuit in Belgium and the Netherlands.  Although originally from Athens, Georgia, the band released this song on the Belgian label Play It Again Sam in the early 90s.  After a long hiatus the band is touring again, let's see how strong their power-pop stays after all those years. Not sure this song is well known outside the Benelux, but this one to put in your regular playlist. Reviews of the full album are only so-so, but I rather like this better than some of the middle-of-the-road pop rock which gets produced right now. Magnapop - Lay it down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVcY5KZHnIs Magnapop - Slowly slowly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnjd939cVWI Wanna check them out? https://www.wildewesten.be/nl/event/magnapop

Back in 1994 I was surfing the burgeoning internet for over a year already.  No way you could get streaming music then, heck, you couldn't even copy music illegally unless you went to the library.    My source of music were friends and magazines like Humo and RifRaf.  Once in a while I would get hold of the New Music Express (NME), a source of all things new an exciting at that time.  By that time, grunge and alternative music were well established and NME offered a sneak preview of new bands and albums through cassettes that came with magazine.  For some odd reason I still remember NME C30.  Maybe because of the following list of songs on it? Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss Green Day - Basket Case The Jesus & Mary Chain - Dirty Water Babylon Zoo - Parallel Lines Shane MacGowan - The Church Of The Holy Spook Dinosaur Jr - Feel The Pain Candlebox - Far Behind Biohazard - State Of The World Address Electrafixion - Zephyr (The Basement Tape) Sadly

This kinda shocked me.  You know that you can see how many times a song has been played in Spotify?  Well now that I am working from home I can blast music as much as I like.  At the same time I like to go back to artists I haven't listened to for a long time and see if they have made any new music recently.   Today's band hasn't and I was shocked to see that a fantastic song of theirs has less than 1000 plays on Spotify!  This must be rectified. If you didn't know, Roos Van Acker sang in the band Eden, one of the few bands with two female singers. Drink this pure energy poured into a two and a half minute song which oozes with nineties nostalgia! Rinse and repeat. Eden - Springtime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXI09Ltt-iw

Rockabilly,  what a peculiar music style.  It is more than a genre of music, it is a lifestyle for quite some folks still today.  This week's song has featured in various movies and television series. A very catchy song you can only sing if you've swallowed a couple of buckets of gravel. I bet you will recognize it and I am sure you will come back to it: it's that irresistible vocal twang you know. My pleasure. Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A6hdbvLq_w