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What a voice, what a set. I am so smitten with her voice.  Hail Haley. Imagine this: a dark and smokey speakeasy.  In the corner, a single spot highlighting the minute podium. There, a little lady with her powerhouse voice turns your drink into an unforgettable experience...  I'd pay big bucks for that. Haley and Harry Reinhart - Chess Records Chicago Session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omtsHEs2g0w

All the way back in 2017, when we could go wherever we wanted, I went to a pasture in the hills of that fairytale country which is dranouter festival. What I saw there in the local church, the best place for the pagantry which is a music festival was this fantastic Irish bard Daoiri Farrell.  How I long to discover great music like this again.  Surely this year we will! Daoiri Farrell - Creggan White Hare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPI_tHNjS78

How did I miss this up to now?  We will never know.  Enter Poppy, a new entrant to the crossover music scene, new chapter "everything goes".  Her debut album contains a mix of pretty much every genre.  Clearly the whole setup is backed by quite some money.  Hence I don't know if I believe the music yet.  I don't feel a history behind the songs (yet).  Maybe I am getting too old. Is it real or ridiculous?  Certainly hilarious and above all catchy and... poppy. Anyway, enjoy these two songs and let me know what you make of it.  I can't get them out of my mind for the moment.  Poppy - Bloodmoney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJlDyRbUtxI Poppy - Concrete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoGhpYdebQ

I happened to listen to the New Wave top 100 on Willy Radio a couple of weeks ago and now I am rediscovering 80s music.   There is definitely a revival (High Hi, Billy Nomates, Whispering Sons) of new wave and 80s sound in general.  This week I am going way back to the first vinyl I got to listen to.  Two seminal records come to mind:  Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA and The Age of Consent by Bronski Beat.   I have listened maybe only a handful times to the The Age of Consent in the last 10 years, but boy, what an underestimated album!  The sound is quintessential 80s with the first samples and electronic sounds which makes the record sound more futuristic than today's pop music.  You can find it all in this song "Junk", one of the lesser known ones of the album but such a representation of my experience of the 80s. By now you will know that lyrics are important to me, this song does not disappoint: He can't take the street no more Street too full full of junk