It’s almost April and you know what that means…it’s time for my end of the quarter round up. God damn. It’s hard to go through tracks and pick my favorites. Strawberry Tongue Radio is highly curated. I don’t include just any tracks to go into the playlist. I am always preening and culling based on, well, what fits the vibe of the station at the time. It can be a hodge-hootenanny. It’s challenging at times. I make no excuses. Sometimes it leans goth, sometimes it leans shoegaze, sometimes it leans electronic, and it almost always leans post-punk. Tonight’s lineup includes elements of shoegaze, post-punk, spoken word, dreampop, electronic, indie rock, and beyond. These are my favorite 25 tracks of the first quarter of 2017. I hope you love these songs as much as I do. Links below will click over to the article where they were featured this year!
- The Shifts – Spring
- Rachel Mason – Tigers in the Dark
- Winded – Blue Kachina
- Black Needle Noise – Teeth to Grey
- My Great Blue Cadillac – Envy
- Dead Amps – Animals
- Heart Years – The Great Fades
- After Death Plan – Picking Bones
- Texture & Light – This Too Shall Pass
- Chris J Connelly – Colder
- Fragrance – Postcards
- Dear Baby Deer – Everybody Lies As They Think of Heaven
- Overland Inn – Crepescule
- UFO – Valentin Licheti
- Equinox – Goodbye
- Spirit Twin – Billie Dot
- Ben Neill & Mimi Goese – Viscera
- Sorority – White White Walls
- Beatastic – Nothing Will Be The Same Next Year
- Blushing – Tether
- Magnetic Ghost – Landfill
- Cascadia Fault Line – Paper Stars
- Mic Raygun – Chihuly
- PRIYAA – Golden Child
- Swain – Time is Not On My Side
That’s it for this week’s edition of the Friday Night Five. Be sure to tune in to Strawberry Tongue Radio at 19:00, 21:00 and 23:00 EDT to hear selected tracks from each of these bands and be sure to visit their websites for more information about their latest work and to purchase their tracks. Also, be sure to listen to Strawberry Tongue Radio to hear our unique playlist featuring current and classic artists playing post punk, new wave, indie, electronic and experimental music.