This week:

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Sink/Let It Sway
Mansfield Come Along
Heatwaves Don't Talk About My Boyfriend
The Legal Matters Light Up the Sky
Arctic Lights King of America
Ben Kweller Starz (radio edit)
Material Issue Renee Remains The Same
Caper Clowns Bonsai Tree (2021)
The Shang Hi Los Sway Little Player
The Ceramic Age Ohma, Bring Your Light Into This
Brian Fallon Among Other Foolish Things
Emperor Penguin Maserati
Ruth Ruth Uninvited
The Wave Pictures We Come Alive
The Glad Machine Slow Motion July

Peace

"Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant" - Fountains of Wayne

Mansfield A Place in the Sun
The boys with the perpetual nervousness Waking Up In The Sunshine
The Stan Laurels Tomorrow
Steven Wright-Mark Runaway, Baby
The Pretenders Didn't Want To Be This Lonely
Dada Dizz Knee Land
Fountains Of Wayne Peace And Love
The Hangabouts Taking You To Leave Me
San Saba County Could You Please
Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Gonna be Good
Hayley and the Crushers Jacaranda
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever The Second Of The First
The Brothers Steve Songwriter
Rooni Label
The Never Never Say These Words
Eugene Edwards Who's Gonna Hate You When You Go

These songs love you ... please return the favor!

"They're at it again next door, this whole floor, I swear they're out to drive me crazy" - Concrete Blonde

Baby, it truly is cold outside these days so pour yourself a cup of hot coco and settle in for a great bunch of music:
The Cheap Cassettes Only Lovers
The Shang Hi Los Funeral Home Mint
The Empty Hearts The Best That I Can
Bread & Butter Gotta Get Away
The Rewinds New Shade of Red
The Weeklings 3
Muck & The Mires The_Way_It_Was_Before
Yanks Country Darlin'
Ken Stringfellow CtE SS Drop
The Winters You
Winter Hours Tell Me Today
Wintersleep Terrible Man
The Dentists Strawberries Are Growing In My Garden (And It's Wintertime)
The Posies Apology

We need help ... these essentials refuse to chase themselves.

"... grab yourself a cheeseburger, at the little gem diner ... off the six niner. Diner my shiny shiny love" - Martin Sexton

Heatwaves My Baby Has Gone
The Overtures STILL ON MY MIND
Adam Daniel Her Shake
Phil Angotti The Lamp
Tuns My Memories
Lannie Flowers Doin' Fine
David Woodard Featuring Lisa Mychols May the Road Rise Up
Caper Clowns Me For a Friend
The Bishops Daredevil Stunt Club X Play
Erik Voeks and The Ghosters Suck It Up, Buttercup
Mark Mulcahy Poison Candy Heart
Phil Yates & The Affiliates Caraway
Dolph Chaney Now I Am A Man
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... all this and more!

"You say that you can't decide. I wonder how you sleep at night" - Pottymouth

Some very cool releases from Rum Bar Records and a whole lot more.

The Gold Needles What's Tomorrow Ever Done For You?
The Brother Kite Dream To Me
Matthew Sweet Challenge The Gods
The Vapour Trails Underneath Tomorrow
The Shang Hi Los Stay
The Bopp Power My Pop
Adele & The Chandeliers German On My Mind
Hayley and the Crushers Church of Flag
Potty Mouth Fencewalker
Ben Kweller Carelesss
Jody Porter and the Berlin Waltz Sunsick Moon
Heatwaves Vampire
The Beths You Wouldn't Like Me
The La's Timeless Melody
Dave Caruso Throwing Out My Baby With the Bassinet
Caper Clowns Whatever Remains

Join us! These essentials aren't going to chase themselves!

"I guess someday my kids will ask me 'bout the old days. I guess that I'll tell them that there ain't much to tell" - Joe Jackson

This week we include:

Hate For Sale The Pretenders
I Know The Madd
American Cigarettes Ben Kweller
This is Your Life The Stan Laurels
the wonder The Seven and Six
Sideways The Posies
Richest Man Brendan Benson
Flipside The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Out Of My League Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts
Prancing Horse Farms Three Hour Tour
Soulfire Gone Red Skylark
Beautiful Steven Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Nuclear Boy Plasticsoul
Waiting For the End of the World Extra Arms

...and so much more. "and the music played on"!

This week is the second part of our end of the year special ... 25 more of our favorite track of 2020.

Caper Clowns Space And Time
Reno Bo Even A Stone
The Pretenders The Buzz
The Shang Hi Los Sway Little Player
The Overtures Maybe Tomorrow (Rain Grey Town)
Tom Curless & the 46% House on Fire
Gretchen's Wheel you should know
The Weeklings 3
GREG POPE Blue Skies Above
The Vapors Sundown River
Old 97's The Dropouts
Adele & The Chandeliers Something Good Is Happening
Bill Lloyd Don't Kill The Messenger
Danny Wilkerson and Lannie Flowers w/ Orbis Max One Of A Kind
Starbelly Ballad of Baltimore
Alex Dezen My Whole Life
Steven Wright-Mark Just a Dream
Sunshine Boys Summertime Kids
The Well Wishers We Grow Up
Cliff Hillis Tired All The Time
Bread & Butter How Do You Spell Yeah?
Nick Piunti & The Complicated Men Upper Hand
Librarians With Hickeys Until There Was You
Semisonic Basement Tapes
Marshall Holland A Hand Holds A Bird

This week is the first part of our year end special ... 50 of or favorite tune from 2020 (no specific order). Here are the first 25 ....

Spygenius In A Garden
BAD MOVES Local Radio
Ryan Allen Hope and Control
Red Skylark Two Shades of Fine
Icecream Hands General Wear And Tear
Searching For Sylvia Play That Song (On The Radio)
The On And Ons Dont Wanna Talk About It
Jason Berk Strangers
The Beths Dying to Believe
Dave Caruso The Drop
Push Puppets Speak My Mind
Ed Ryan Even Time
Strawberry Generation Coffee
Eugene Edwards Irregular Heartbeat
Nada Surf Ride in the Unknown
Chris Church Someday's Coming Fast
X Water & Wine
The Bookends Calliope
The Bye Bye Blackbirds War Is Still Hell
Answering Machine Cherry Coke
The Hangabouts Animal Suite
Lisa Mychols & Super 8 Trip And Ellies Music Factory
Cupid's Carnival Working All Day
The Vapour Trails Golden Sunshine
Joe Normal Living In The Borough

" Your rhapsody is blowing my cool-ool.
Your fantasies, there written for fools" - The Cars

This week; The Shang Hi Los, Little Roger, The Stan Laurels, The Anderson Council, The Homewreckers, The Empty Hearts, The Pengwins, Shoes, The Lyres, John Wesley Harding, The Jessica Fletchers, Salem 66, Let's Active, Tuns, Hawaii Mud Bombers, Cliff Hillis and much more . These essentials should not be alone in this holiday season!

2 hours of uninterrupted Christmas music ... Chasing the Essential style!

Wishing you all the best the Holiday season!