Production collective Quakers released 'Double Jointed', an ironic take on racism with; Broadcast celebrated the birthday of late Trish Keenan with a release of a simple a lovely song 'Where Are You?'; punks Stick To Your Guns released 'Hasta la Victoria', with powerful lyrics, and a Viktor Jara quote; Deerhoof made a covers album mixing snippets of songs by Voivod, Velvet Underground, Sun Ra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Beach Boys, Morricone and many more - 'Love-Lore 2' is one of those; Zulu goes from metal ripper to afro-funk 'Now They Are Through With Me'; Dutch-Ghanian singer-songwriter Nana Adjoa deals with nationalism in democracy in 'National Song'; shoegazers Nothing emanate being lost in 'Bernie Sanders'.

Twentysomething - minutes of joy
April 22, 2020

Best new songs today: Sex Swing, Deradoorian, Skullcrusher...

Deradoorian

Deradoorian's 'Monk’s Robes' is just a beautiful and just slightly strange song by the singer-songwriter; 'No-One' is a psychedelic stadium-rock song by the everlasting Psychedelic Furs; Deerhoof demonstrate chaos control on 'Farewell Symphony', with a good video; Sex Swing share their new psychedelic noise track 'Skimmington Ride'; Moore Jewelry demonstrate noise-industrial rap on 'Look Alive'; Skullcrusher's 'Places/Plans' is a delicate piano and guitar ballad; the beautifully named Angelo De Augustine shared a new single, 'Santa Barbara' which he worked on with the beautifully voiced Sufjan Stevens; Chelsea Wolfe and members of Dillinger Escape Plan covered Ozzy Osbourne's 'Crazy Train' - it's different, and it's great, especially with her voice; 'Halogen Eye' by the O'Brother is a big alt-rock song designed for stadiums

Cannabis Corpse host a special edition of their 'Wake and Bake' show on Gimme Radio; vocalist and bassist Phil “Landphil” Hall will be on hand to talk weed and metal (at 11:00 a.m. New York time, 5 p.m. Stockholm, 11 p.m. Singapore time)

Deerhoof is hosting a listening party of their new album 'Future Teenage Cave Artists' and chatting, on YouTube (4 p.m. / 10 p.m. / 4 a.m. on Tuesday)

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is presenting listening party of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti‘s 'Before Today' and The Pogues‘ 'Rum, Sodomy & The Lash'; he'll comment on them with the artists who made those albums (4/5 p.m., 10/11 p.m., 4/5 a.m.)

Cypress Hill is performing on LiveXLive at to benefit Crew Nation (7:10 p.m. / 1:10 a.m. / 7:10 a.m.)

Snoop Dogg is DJing on Merry Jane’s Instagram (7:20 p.m. / 1:20 a.m. / 7.20 a.m.)

Willie Nelson is hosting a weed variety show Come and Toke It, joined by Kacey Musgraves, Billy Ray Cyrus, Tommy Chong, Angel Olsen, and Beto O'Rourke (5:20 p.m. / 11:20 p.m. / 5:20 a.m.)

'Persona Non Grata' is a first new Bright Eyes song in 9 years, a bagpipes waltz; Nadine Shah rejects the traditions of marriage and family and yet still longing for them on 'Trad'; Scottibrains released 'Aristorats', an energo-ambiental song devoid of genre; Highly Suspect's new song and video 'These Days' have a family dinner turned nightmare; UK post punk band Squid released a tense new song 'Sludge'; Anglo-Ugandan electro-percussion outfit Nihiloxica are back with another outstanding new track 'Tewali Sukali'; Deerhoof “wanted to express what it feels like knowing that the rebels are our only hope" on their new song 'Future Teenage Cave Artists'.