New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

i have honestly set myself up with enough music for the next two years!
plus i'm managing the ilx lists and listening to those. it's a full full world.

Lol tell me about it, my "to listen" playlist is perpetually hovering around 9000 songs

it's kinda crazy how you take things for granted so quickly

but i've spent the last 2 work days listening to a playlist that is every Beethovan symphony performed by the London Symphony, all in chronological order

that's kinda fucking crazy to be able to dial up cultural knowledge like that

New Particles, 2015-10-30
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/75vpr77mdtCwwgf2JN2Aii

One-man Polish experimental ambient/acoustic/noise-metal style-shifting chaos from Stara Rzeka - http://open.spotify.com/album/2afS20wqthqm8hsr6054Mx
Coy but only ultrafaintly vaporwavy neo-synthpop by Computer Magic - http://open.spotify.com/album/0lGTK4Lp4fhli24PlzufdK
Another irrepressible advance single from the upcoming Little Mix album - https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZZyqF6CrepMTKAr0PlK9S
Geographer make Paul Simon's "I Know What I Know" into glittering metro-arena-pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/5jO2PJ9CRmEg7VRYa06FUa
A streamlined, pulsing, chirpy indietronic gem from Grimes - https://open.spotify.com/track/1JYtlIFdYms6nZNf2K7Yys
Blistering death/black/heavy/folk everything-metal from Savonian Finns Verjnuarmu - http://open.spotify.com/album/3XnscZPWmtMoZNEmS1vjhj
Gritty, croaky-voiced death-metal from Horrendous - http://open.spotify.com/album/6IorLrgnanjkghkhlc4aau
Simmery, measured, not-really-for-dancing slow-build pop from Ellie Goulding - https://open.spotify.com/track/19HURubNqIbV3VKqLcQp4y
Sparkly high-gloss r&b-pop from Pia Mia - https://open.spotify.com/track/26nqNagc6dINfNM2ZKmoa0
I've been lobbying Royal Teeth and Cut Ribbons to tour together, and if The Sam Willows can afford to get from Singapore to wherever the tour is, they should - http://open.spotify.com/album/0FEM3h1Bo8QHEb7V91Eurb
Swirly gauze-pop from GEMS - http://open.spotify.com/album/3l5Ao1wM83DeLAX20zqX00
Dua Lipa - https://open.spotify.com/track/1ixphys4A3NEXp6MDScfih
Taiwanese once-folk-singer 韋禮安 wanders into shred-rock - https://open.spotify.com/track/61myeQaClSPNzyRxKxeulI
CHVRCHES + Fun. gets you somewhere near TeamMate - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xj266LmCjN81UkbfcTgdf
Shiny French gothic symphonic metal from Kerion (whose name, in French, presumably means something other than a fungal abscess) - http://open.spotify.com/album/0J0aUn0STm7wlqv0qsgLEp
Surging techno-post-metal from Maserati - http://open.spotify.com/album/0CuJtTXWt5wYzTGCVBkc2E
Glorious Spanish pop-rock by Amaral - http://open.spotify.com/album/0gY2l4ZTW39oBoS7y85T3v
Twangy Latin-pop destined for TV themes from Tamara - http://open.spotify.com/album/6hMS5FR5KPp65zr9gXjMkI
Atmospheric post-metal from With Our Arms to the Sun - http://open.spotify.com/album/5wnD92WsGpGjyz9YsRuv2t
Blistering very-hard rock from Kobra And The Lotus - http://open.spotify.com/album/33orcRPjBjeuVtdrXLmvWy
Oblique, meditative Latin alt-pop by Carla Morrison - https://open.spotify.com/track/1B7nJpjCgL9dKOwPQIK4tI
Unprecious Texas-country revialism from the Josh Abbott Band - https://open.spotify.com/track/2dryb9mq04iP7zHLwTwUdD
Slow, obsessive, Crowded-House-ish serentity from Bright Light Bright Light - https://open.spotify.com/track/2Wnbk0cm2x1QqkZf5PxGFK
Methodical gothic grandeur from Draconian - http://open.spotify.com/album/5lRRVJBHyQQa3vXfU3Ihcp
Glorious Basque pop-rock by Ken Zazpi - https://open.spotify.com/track/0JC0GRznwM7iXsS3SdTt7n
Scritchy twee-punk by the Ohio one of the various bands called Sports - http://open.spotify.com/album/3wTUgU8DhAh32313L3WfPD
New neo-shoegaze album by Cheatahs - http://open.spotify.com/album/7KDSjt2oYx6cYJ0OGkW9L7
Chattering mechano-techno by Kangding Ray - http://open.spotify.com/album/4Z1tzDVZayP1BGceNPYAUk
Fuzz-shrouded power-noise-pop by Shmu - http://open.spotify.com/album/78wXoICuFNL8ImY8r1kMyo
Abstracted post-math-rock by Ahleuchatistas - http://open.spotify.com/album/18fG22f3c3OVdbBWy7G63K

And my two picks of the week, both long-awaited:

The emphatically, empathically ragged new indie-country-rock album by Laura Stevenson - http://open.spotify.com/album/4y28GYK4zDNqMkuN6k7Aue
The sweeping kudzu-gothic black-epic new album by the great Appalachian-metal band Panopticon - http://open.spotify.com/album/32lW13bcC2gaiS7Zke8rVw

http://i68.tinypic.com/zj8e48.png

deep. Also, 540 tracks on that Eugene Mirman thing!

12 are from his comedy special
8 are from a meditation tape
198 of them are his sound effects library
4 are of him crying for 40 minutes
195 are various sounds of orgasm
98 are ringtones (I am considering switching mine out to him chanting "SPICY FISH SPICY FISH SPICY FISH"
5 are weird extended MIDI funk sex jams
9 tracks are a nonsensical Russian audio phrasebook
11 are "digital drugs to administer via audio"

Is that some way to boost play counts?

like, 100 people listen to Mirman's album and he gets paid for 54,000 tracks played?

Under current rules, a track only counts as played if the user plays at least :30 of it, so tracks shorter than that can't generate royalties on Spotify at all.

Wow is this a week.

New Particles, 2015-11-06
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/0YwwymILE0jnJ5ROtPpLb0

Justin Bieber can keep writing all the songs he wants as long as TeraBrite covers them - https://open.spotify.com/track/0bE6738llYcdOQevTQhqu9
My co-worker Brendan made a great ambient electronica album about Iceland as Toss Power Traps - http://open.spotify.com/album/5saW45zhQBcMmUWuShmYE3
Little Mix are (even) better than One Direction - http://open.spotify.com/album/4bzVI1FElc13HQagFR7S1W
Grimes finds her indietronic-pop calling - http://open.spotify.com/album/5hB4jVN4ZHpubyiMmW81K1
Spanish hard-rock power-metal by Dark Moor - http://open.spotify.com/album/5KE2gFbT6e0uqX6boKxiIY
Eldritch remind us that we used to call it Heavy Metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/1PvP3bQYyFtXvBlpoAkJeE
Reverence didn't need to be reminded - http://open.spotify.com/album/2SL2KSSzrmIabTILlmQr4r
Brittle meditations from The Japanese House - http://open.spotify.com/album/4T1o6BUMpITeK7DfE5qZqp
Splintery electro-chatter EP from Blanck Mass - http://open.spotify.com/album/34AMu7NIASbp6DY2xqqjAn
Finally finally, a whole album of metropercussive Kate Boy songs - http://open.spotify.com/album/4KaggIGXRqmK4YiHlCBp1r
Cacophonic black thrash-rasp by Vastum - http://open.spotify.com/album/1TUhE6KUL6DPjlGbJU5jig
Experimental (Latin-alternative) pop in the wandering tradition of Kate Bush and St. Vincent by Carla Morrison - http://open.spotify.com/album/0KmjN7MinQwCNGRkwjAAj2
Gloriously unglorified red-dirt Texas country from the Josh Abbott Band - http://open.spotify.com/album/6CHcH6BB0SRRXrOGUuJ0kj
Shimmery big-synth-pop flutters from Chelsea Lankes - https://open.spotify.com/track/77MMfd2H8x9HZcy41KRJFO
The new Ellie Goulding album - http://open.spotify.com/album/2GcDjXQtCguM4PHtgO7gxA
Sia is halfway between Ellie Goulding and Adele, more or less - https://open.spotify.com/track/5ocP1cIe1dOc9A0q1MDNl2
Malrun is the Danish Queensrÿche (and I think the legal situation with Queensrÿche is that every country gets their own...) - https://open.spotify.com/track/5WVcW1BcUHBQ14uQ5LQHNd
Ebullient, mechano-organic sonic texturalism from Murlo - http://open.spotify.com/album/0WyqnCbZUotDywRlnoQtNh
Warm, crunchy indie guitar-rock by sund4ra Karma - http://open.spotify.com/album/0Jwb23esTxQb81vFHJPOVy
Sizzy Rocket imagines what PC Music might sound like if it weren't coy or conceptual - https://open.spotify.com/track/50edCDIGEUxm8OF4T1e2sU
Chiming Chilean indie rock from We Are The Grand - https://open.spotify.com/track/2wCGtmgtrhZOOoYnXjJKmq
They have their own Bieber in Spain, and he is called Abraham Mateo, and he's pretty good - https://open.spotify.com/track/0NTmF861UoX8IykWrEbSxW
Robo-symphonics, as sharp as Murlo is sinuous but similarly inventive, by Giant Claw - http://open.spotify.com/album/7rb8NLl9lWCXazllkLA4ap
Big Hungarian dance-pop by Radics Gigi - https://open.spotify.com/track/2rtKUwEVUIctTsSM4lB5JB
SOPHIE takes the PC Music thing into weirdly Zoolook-ish machine-whine - https://open.spotify.com/track/2GEgwCw7AUdCPoS6soCl9q
New EP by German synth-pop purists CLAIRE - http://open.spotify.com/album/7GDltVDEKO58M7GFtl7yvF
Thoughtfully bitter folk-pop by Maria Mena - https://open.spotify.com/track/1gs1wX1reGRMb775gtQNCs
Epic post-goth neo-post-punk from City Calm Down - http://open.spotify.com/album/4RyD9v28fo16YPs3GhHgJT

New Particles, 2015-11-13
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2K0chEhwXbtZsW9X2v2elA

Icelandic 15-woman electro-hop from Reykjavíkurdætur - http://open.spotify.com/album/0peYLBYriQSDRGEKPP2VGn
Heavy metal traditionalism in all senses from Satan - http://open.spotify.com/album/6vpVIhWYctSWLSnfIj1TEr
Hyper-earnest new-emo-pop by SayWeCanFly - http://open.spotify.com/album/5VzIMyaJ0yFCpKqaHXL95E
Glistening epicstep by Brainstorm - https://open.spotify.com/track/3h1tWruiXaKX2SLAJT71lS
School Of Seven Bells continues - https://open.spotify.com/track/5hB7qpilDSr2TG33ghsETX
Spare, spiky twee-along by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - https://open.spotify.com/track/5v5mtHXcxydzbVCqBqOFui
Swoony star-aspirant electro-pop by Rilan - http://open.spotify.com/album/2JDMnm3JYoxdan3lxp7o8B
Grimly epic pagan black metal by Kampfar - http://open.spotify.com/album/6TqJQVo8fGTPYS0FG2iskr
Berzerk, distended panic-metal by Revenge - http://open.spotify.com/album/3zcRhYS75gb63PPz4VEwyM
A collaboration between Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues that is exactly as terrifying as that sounds - http://open.spotify.com/album/4V7MGxRSLtzXRk9q9UfZV1
Bright new-wave-throwback pop by Scavenger Hunt - https://open.spotify.com/track/3lIL5udx9hATCkPTv48Fva
Edie Brickell crossed with Ellie Goulding gets you somewhere near Noonie Bao - http://open.spotify.com/album/4dFair7dAR9Ns3KhxTPU6N
Snarly old-old-school punk by Dolores Haze - http://open.spotify.com/album/3JW4ihM4CDx5ksY0XfqxKV
Avant-garde ambient drone-metal art music by Anna Von Hausswolff - http://open.spotify.com/album/5mDdfu5xrHAvikuJlbv0Ot
A cappella "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", really - https://open.spotify.com/track/42YcnM5VcjYBwfQCOWRPCa
Future bass from the future where we ponder our natures and mechanisms but don't dance, by Rustie - http://open.spotify.com/album/49Iya42dgyQlHiImgCcvJt
Future bass from the future that's like that but more colorful, by Arca - https://open.spotify.com/track/0i9FKvfUJYYEtKRHR9f0LZ
Genial, bouncy latin pop from Jesse & Joy - https://open.spotify.com/track/7ANWiP2P5UPxMEbh5fAsBt
Abraham Mateo is the Justin Bieber you might like if you like One Direction - http://open.spotify.com/album/57WzHBJGngVVWhd1V3pXMM
One Direction is the One Direction you might like even if you don't think you do - http://open.spotify.com/album/1gMxiQQSg5zeu4htBosASY
Headchewing thrash-metal by Revocation - http://open.spotify.com/album/1hyMYUfzJAWXAOAVKGpB1a
A new Giorgio Moroder pop album - http://open.spotify.com/album/2rfzwF4EGbNdzOcRzbcVl1
Brash, bashing indie guitar-rock by Gnarwolves - http://open.spotify.com/album/65D2N2uFy2xH3pykOm4omI
Glassy trancestep from Au5 and Fractal - http://open.spotify.com/album/1IMyH8n9nu9IwwKJI9nW3W
Throaty, battering Bavarian melodic metalcore from Memento - http://open.spotify.com/album/6i6PMtkpGBcrPvVA1kdxc4
Joyously unsteady Melbourne electroconfessional indieventurousness from Owen Rabbit - https://open.spotify.com/track/3FfpzdGI438McH0Q5Lum1d
Dear new epic British powergaze band Rain, your lives will be better if you change your name (and not to Rain Sounds or Rain Noises for Sleep) - https://open.spotify.com/track/1d3OMJKwwaKiPivsHC0zr4
Redemptive Casiotronic yearning from Astropol - https://open.spotify.com/track/23bjEgBAbxC3E2vJxDIYjY
Sineuous Serbian turbo-folk from Cvija - https://open.spotify.com/track/588NcGOxwv4d18TfCtzIFY
Tranquil German indie-pop-rock from Silbermond - https://open.spotify.com/track/29OsTlhuQCSNnFSXy2WeC9
Expansive German arena-pop from LaFee - https://open.spotify.com/track/2HK0PB6wxj0GcoKoNgpksR
Muted gauzegazy tenacity from Racing Glaciers - https://open.spotify.com/track/3v45hpNw9MXk9U0oBQlZDb
Anthemic Greek pop-rock from Despina Vandi - https://open.spotify.com/track/44uRRnbB3IEjNuV9GlxLSQ
The majestic new single from the greatest-ever band from Skye, Runrig - https://open.spotify.com/track/29f4KE80Km2mhJCzHASxuS
Giant-hearted piano-rock from A Great Big World - http://open.spotify.com/album/6SQWwNCTTPmS1DaXQNRDOy
The hiptronics-redefining debut album by Le1f - http://open.spotify.com/album/3NkP3FZHkJktEhMIf4DKyc
A new chance to listen to the underrated 2004 farewell album by Scottish indie-pop band Astrid - http://open.spotify.com/album/1A0M5i4z6qj8TBk1slPqOS
Ambient-epicore world-fusion serenity from Saint Of Sin - https://open.spotify.com/track/1D6iVKEltmttMjqUEYWQzU
Another melancholy piano-and-duet deconstruction of Yaz's "Only You"? Yes, that will be just fine. - https://open.spotify.com/track/1eftIypOTzVCDPv9xLZPDN

Weather Report · The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981
Arca · Mutant

love these updates Glenn - this Rain band is good...borderline ungoogleable as Studio - West Coast was

thx for the heads up on Arca, mordy

New Particles, 2015-11-20
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/43Qye3F3z2CbX83GLhHj1X

Punch goth-metal collaboration between Apocalyptica and Vamps (the Japanese one) - https://open.spotify.com/track/2qBKTu8XwQ0DqJO2523bm1
Shimmery power-metal from Signum Regis - http://open.spotify.com/album/0xikBYlMdfmR6VrQ0TYKmP
Shreddy old-school heavy metal by Primal Fear - https://open.spotify.com/track/0H8P0MaXm7abSzhrXXTcFg
Tense, muted grandeur from my favorite Chilean modern-rock band, Lucybell - https://open.spotify.com/track/5pMvhrDnJs9nOkgGY9XHx6
Epic shout-along metal anthem by Baroness - https://open.spotify.com/track/6YNR1Traxs7kbEdYYkhxV7
Sophisto-evasive productioneering by Arca - http://open.spotify.com/album/0l9EkgUMcOw15cPnoNajeG
Dense, swirling multi-voiced etherpop by Kyla La Grange - https://open.spotify.com/track/4tjnpPW1LOjMbMuswzvd8f
Splattery technical death metal from Obscura - https://open.spotify.com/track/331C4VbwqhsK0RkinB4hGw
Keening Russian djent from The Korea - https://open.spotify.com/track/1jZZUKtcwzrUaTSxVAVJqh
Stern, recitative noise-opera from John Cale - https://open.spotify.com/track/3FZvcvCpp5fhVgrLbZuxU1
Glassy ambientstep by Varien and Mr Fijiwiji - https://open.spotify.com/track/2OgAlPzPvMTATMrKlNGT6F
Throwback speed metal from Manimal - http://open.spotify.com/album/0pmASVeI15WOwn6Y3nsieZ
Earnest Big Pop by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - http://open.spotify.com/album/4gDZDBTJRu9EFHcaac4dui
The whole Odinic pagan-metal Månegarm album is like the single - http://open.spotify.com/album/251sMcvk1xJ4gMdFYsjJ46
Lightly galloping Swedish indie-pop by Marit Bergman - https://open.spotify.com/track/67r3pkok0ATO0IACSaNdix
Frenetic Turkish hip-hop from Joker - http://open.spotify.com/album/1oI70sEnI5Z8tV8XiRpR6N
Bleepy Basque indie-rock by Ken Zazpi - http://open.spotify.com/album/6WHAQEWM7G0fZUbwBKAffU
Corruscating astral soul by Crywolf - http://open.spotify.com/album/49S22NeCVuggVUg4hM0Eqg
Bright ambient mood-drone by T-cophony - http://open.spotify.com/album/7vunnOTHsTgdZPvIxprL96
Burbling synth-pop by Dræmings - https://open.spotify.com/track/1a0reORZMtLNJJXGuVGoCx
A whole new album of arco voices and plucked harpstrings from Enya - http://open.spotify.com/album/4FStw70Tk1spCN8V1o11oW
Brash, blaring, faintly mechano-Killers-ish dance-rock by Battle Tapes - http://open.spotify.com/album/5iZnEfyTnKPKMkbtpHMCaL

And my two picks of the week:

Yes! The new album by the great great Japanese rock/metal band Head Phones President is availabe in the US! - http://open.spotify.com/album/4ylxGESsBLNTmwtpkSkHaf
The return of one of my very favorite melodic gothic symphonic metal bands, Imperia - http://open.spotify.com/album/09uCod9N8BZn3nWlXAMcUO

The release-year is winding down, but not without a few thousand extra releases, just in case.

New Particles, 2015-11-27
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3tWv9wMyjV3RAEq6YJqlGK

Contrarian are not going to win over many death-doom skeptics with this raspy croaking. I'm not sure "win over many death-doom skeptics" is actually a thing, anyway, but this is a really interesting death-doom record. - http://open.spotify.com/album/2SW0iOzvjTGpL1hs5sC4Vj
Kompakt Records has a "Pop Ambient" compilation with Stephan Mathieu and 11 other artists (none of them "pop") - http://open.spotify.com/album/3SHcMuMQdtPhOGdPnG9kx3
Bersarin Quartett is not a quartet, but this is another really good atmospheric-ambient non-pop album - http://open.spotify.com/album/4UvoN0FYp3HOg5qiKP33ug
Extravagant faux-string flourishes from Foxes - https://open.spotify.com/track/0bcUGhhI0f0Fhre7O5JwR7
Big, blustery Taiwanese arena-pop from 黃鴻升 - http://open.spotify.com/album/33Fvum3OzoJj4IzyUWTOIj
Thundering death-crush by Horrendous - http://open.spotify.com/album/4MS5KRYloZtsxuJ77ObXPa
Swoopy, Spanish pop-rock by Malú - http://open.spotify.com/album/3MTbVUt5nBj7Gmm6j1Oaaz
Tense, j-rock-like Thai indie-rock by Bedroom Audio - https://open.spotify.com/track/0hxnqPN6lTQdx3nP6FdC9v
Muted German indie-pop by the great Silbermond - http://open.spotify.com/album/36DXaVV4UtydMVTAGYmZXg
Squalling punk melancholy by Muncie Girls - https://open.spotify.com/track/1uAU00GOjbUMk9S2qU27ej
Future-trance epicore from TitanSlayer - http://open.spotify.com/album/5hNdAvC1xbHFvsgg6Vglyv

and my pick for the week, the new album by j-rock guitar-goddess Rie a.k.a. Suzaku - http://open.spotify.com/album/2KcYuJ2URvqGwyvxrSgZ1p

I'm mostly just repeating myself, but those three Malú, Silbermond and Rie a.k.a. Suzaku records are all stupendous in totally non-stupendous ways.

love the new look

"Announced" here: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=443

New Particles, 2015-12-04
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/4LysCu9R2Qw1A8GEvBda1c

I've come to appreciate increasingly abstruse and obscure metal, but I haven't lost the visceral reaction of excitement to unapologetic joyful bombast, exemplified by the goofywonderful new Primal Fear song - https://open.spotify.com/track/0kah4G2d1mmocI8JOXWcdJ
Arguably the opposite extreme of metal is this sensuous, often near-ambient folk-post-metal meditation by Kauan - http://open.spotify.com/album/2vYSKNZsE3R7pBbCFZKrOd
Bombast without machismo was a pretty good innovation in metal, I think. German gothic operatic metal mainstays Coronatus change members but somehow keep the same sound and the same logo font - http://open.spotify.com/album/6drePay3XRsVG8vLBle9p1
Oh god, for a moment I thought "The Gift of Music" was going to be a Christmas song, but it's actually Dream Theater's answer to "Magic Power" - https://open.spotify.com/track/3QwqRd3vM8ya0PD5GYnwRA
Amoral make throaty progcore - https://open.spotify.com/track/12LlrN4kX4tAUXdpdeJZym
Maria Mena makes me think of Alanis Morissette with more Joni Mitchell, or Natalie Imbruglia with more Patty Larkin - http://open.spotify.com/album/72aZVqqvsyeUqm60hhVRZk
The new Geographer EP has a lavishly spare "Cloudbusting" cover - http://open.spotify.com/album/0UzRXveMru1ilDF5dsfoMF
The new Sunn 0))) noise-drone album is sadly not called "Cloudgrinder" - http://open.spotify.com/album/3RTGY3G7yQgsOiwOC6rC7S
I'm definitely warming to these springy, melodic new Baroness songs - https://open.spotify.com/track/3SeQQAbbkZ7e8Kt1pkxmst
Hegemon screetch, blast and swallow your head - http://open.spotify.com/album/71iBkE4FkaSs7ZWxuqIBIc
La Rappresentante di Lista sound to me like Shakira has joined Chairlift - http://open.spotify.com/album/6LYIQHEvh9Ch7BxjwAunBt
Pastilla make warm, surging Mexican/American alt-rock - http://open.spotify.com/album/4MRWu7VEiJD7atxkjtDdVG
Antonio Ferrari steps out of a time-machine from the 80s into an Italian piazza and everybody starts dancing - http://open.spotify.com/album/3qyl182kWPXUPS9AHOachm
Roxette once made the most Swedish-sounding Spanish album ever. Jesse & Joy are what this could have sounded like as a native idea - http://open.spotify.com/album/6pmTwCb5SeTjV9wdnkbDo3
Monica Naranjo has become a classical-crossover artist by crossing over from pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/00xRi2RcPki2OP7nAEuDr2
Astropol does lo-fi Swedish drum-machine pop like I imagine I would do if I could sing and play and write and produce better - http://open.spotify.com/album/0NltRSa1T253jVyNmimx4C
The Crookes blare and twangle - https://open.spotify.com/track/10lJS0rZgSZaUlLWq6QnqZ
Ki:Theory is like the indie version of AWOLNATION - http://open.spotify.com/album/7HHfj7Isj5DfE1F6ifE2BG
NateWantsToBattle does cheerful pop-punk anime covers - https://open.spotify.com/track/4cKPzfOUIZWXhu3GDnESjL
Troye Sivan would like to be an Australian Justin Bieber, please - http://open.spotify.com/album/5ouTDazE4LF9bVJPx1nlgW
Kill the Thrill do experimental atmospheric post-metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/5Avk207fmBW2WTcDZW0o1m
fakuta makes elegantly uncluttered Chilean indie gauze-pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/1lBrbMGrctZ92WpHPxyBbv
LCMDF are the Finnish Shampoo, and the Finnish Shampoo are sick of Finnish metal dudes - https://open.spotify.com/track/1pLfuwK5I7lGtQC1969X1k
Somos make pingy sigh-pop - https://open.spotify.com/track/00uCBJzIKZNNaH21VAMxzq
Punchline do jerky electro-emo - http://open.spotify.com/album/4okCZ13b9R931aCjP9Enpa
SikTh help indjent djent - http://open.spotify.com/album/00sWfXQ7GHMno4qrcgn8Y9
Page sound nostalgic for all past and future synthpop at once - https://open.spotify.com/track/2okZvnlNmIAvRjC5NUwAle
Matias Puumala will do your next apocalyptic cinemastep movie trailer - https://open.spotify.com/track/6fYSuTLBDGDsXXes8AeS7A

Royal Pirates are my new favorite Korean-American indie-rock band - http://open.spotify.com/album/58yNxLCSLY6qZXmh5s1e04
Tkay Maidza suggests there should be a Zimbabwean/Australian version of grime - http://open.spotify.com/album/17P57CX6VfbjD0zmJ7MypQ
Mr Traumatik is already grime in Portsmouth - http://open.spotify.com/album/04Y9x121a5IBAS6AAWjTib
Västerbron is a bridge in Stockholm and a yearningly ragged Swedish post-punk band - https://open.spotify.com/track/0HWzP5M2EeziQef1RnYAQi
THCF does Serbian trap - https://open.spotify.com/track/6YDgnJPerKwoC5CRPSzKH6
Toygar Işıklı composed the excellent spaghetti-western/pan-celtic/epicore score for a Turkish TV show I don't know anything about and never expect to see - http://open.spotify.com/album/4g4jsUq6IsRUQM6kPBjucu
FUNKTIONSLUST show that FKA twigs is starting to have influence - http://open.spotify.com/album/0rgGU7VF58sbk44gdRRUwQ
Zero Call make a whole band out of the interstitial bits of M83 and Kraftwerk records - http://open.spotify.com/album/1GEMlpUqWFoT6uGuK4cbkk
Ultima Thule do Viking Oi, which is 90% electrifying and 10% like maybe you're being invited into a worryingly well-organized riot - http://open.spotify.com/album/5sqOfAZav87UXkKavP891V
Malrun are a Danish epic melodic hard-metalcore-rock band I keep forgetting aren't Spanish - http://open.spotify.com/album/6LcQrF5MJl8CgVhyqpTeCA
Intervals do calculated math-jazz prog-post-metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/4MYLm8Uxayy4UyqFHPHfBB
MY RED + BLUE dances into arena-pop spotlights - http://open.spotify.com/album/2eFDz0kTnueXYY5D8dU53A
Lucius snaps crisply amidst circus-wild kaleidoscopic chaos - https://open.spotify.com/track/7hLRO5yZXsQEXHN40f8pLC
Apparently the last two albums by The Cult were part of a thematic trilogy - https://open.spotify.com/track/36Tex5XGXQSE3ktUqNNWjE
Vorna make maniacally raspy Finnish blast-pagan prog-metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/4J3AWqcGI0z0xp3KuOCQva
I'm a sucker for the combination of rock power and near-Eastern warble, and this is Lena Papadopoulou's mesmerizing Greek version of this synthesis - https://open.spotify.com/track/15m2glm7Bnqwn3QUcUyHjK
Belako are a Basque indie-pop band going a bit trance-jam - https://open.spotify.com/track/6dVrwyB97laOY71gMYHlZ3
Odio París are actually a shimmery Catalan nu-gaze band - https://open.spotify.com/track/1SII3XITH31aBokESm8Vx8
Khymera are a majestically anachronistic melodic AOR glam-metal band - http://open.spotify.com/album/6FgAtE9RLGWomKxdwhYcP9
Middlepicker place Minneapolis–St. Paul somewhere in between Archers of Loaf and Tullycraft - http://open.spotify.com/album/3KhHa3R4HmCeit8Lbasgve
Alpha Consumer are also from Minneapolis, and remind me of Polara, who were also also from Minneapolis, but apparently they're different people - https://open.spotify.com/track/7tcFLYcrn2axoOVq6FNkCB
BNLX's most recent EP is from last year, but they are Ed Ackerson's post-Polara band, which I totally didn't know and maybe you didn't either so let's catch up - spotify:album:2JsHagfQCCbHbSvGhnjodM
I think Heloisa Rosa is historically a Portuguese CCM singer, but I don't speak Portuguese and so don't have to care, and this is a wildly magnificent Iberian-pop/arena-rock song - https://open.spotify.com/track/4j59xpRgNZafrlyZK8QuaF
If you only listen to American hip hop, you're missing a lot of astonishing stuff, like this cinematically menacing rant by Iranian-German rapper Kianush - https://open.spotify.com/track/1nIIghJZL1YKC7xOgGm13L
Gjan is Lithuania's answer to Kerli, and now I feel like I should know who I think is Latvia's - https://open.spotify.com/track/7mF3EDc1Npu13GLTZKZygf
James Tw does a brittle indie-r&b cover of "Torn" - https://open.spotify.com/track/3Uu8nwa9xA9bxCur5g3oJU
Shishamo are a female j-punk band somewhere on the path from Shonen Knife to Tricot - http://open.spotify.com/album/2fTYETl9PBoj4nrOmc7CyR
Der Dicke Polizist is a cheerfully snarly old-school German punk band - http://open.spotify.com/album/6exN53GNb43OkGnm40lIQN
Another of my countless weaknesses is indie gothic symphonic metal bands like Colorado Springs' Neverlight who, whether by choice or necessity, cast their epic musical ambitions in dry, un-epic production treatments - http://open.spotify.com/album/2FWdSsIkr0K4PEjBPf5m5k
Aedliga is me, and this is my new song, composed by both choice and logistical necessity in my usual studio aboard an Icelandair flight a few days ago, and sung in a stranger's apartment in Stockholm in a race to get usable tracks in few enough takes that the neighbors I don't know don't come over to introduce themselves and tell me what Max Martin would have done - https://open.spotify.com/track/6Bgr4XBEeAWNIHEcyA1TNg

New Particles, 2015-12-11
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1HCugJ9toYbQFQRIJ7U2Ed

This was the week I suddenly and way-belatedly discovered that Ed Ackerson of Polara has been in a new band called BNLX for years - http://open.spotify.com/album/2JsHagfQCCbHbSvGhnjodM
Avantasia is what it's like to eat a giant slice of meat loaf without taking the aluminum foil off first - https://open.spotify.com/track/3xCX5PhMNHjubGkK1lLX4d
If Low's Christmas EP was too earnest for you, A Sunny Day In Glasgow have an alterative - http://open.spotify.com/album/6o2OMmmmNIoJin0LZAR2AE
Give me a few more bands like White Sea and I will declare Astral Soul's independence from Indie R&B - https://open.spotify.com/track/5cTw48zYsmOw496Slwb6op
Dry the River could be part of it, too - http://open.spotify.com/album/49TWgB9tGFH3Gm733kkivP
Raventale make gothic symphonic black metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/1m4J2c5YRikNyOFhsxJNF0
This is the part of the year when people indignantly demand to know what the hell "metropopolis" is, and this song by Cappa is some of it - https://open.spotify.com/track/6ipl7Aq0bA2Q8768FZRZo8
Grabbitz is kind of metrostep - http://open.spotify.com/album/2QdSSeakmxFA7e0QO5XfFA
If Black Sabbath started over today, they might sound like Bloodiest - https://open.spotify.com/track/248mXCu0401Xc1lQDBUgXK
Vessels do deep indietronic post-focus music - http://open.spotify.com/album/0XDMwXF5OHpK9IG2n3lEXG
The American Dollar do it more post-, less -tronic - http://open.spotify.com/album/2ytkZoVgs5yKkFEP9oZiut
Farewell Dear Ghost make soft-spoken, soft-shoed stomp-and-holler - https://open.spotify.com/track/2oFwrwH2Wu0UrmAJI0RBUW
Of course there is progressive djentcore, what else would a band called Lithium Dawn be? - http://open.spotify.com/album/52IFkHbpCWWJZURBHtpkQv
In Estonia, even a "pop-rock" band like HND sounds a little folk-metal - https://open.spotify.com/track/2g5GFXk7xg0f7gsYtcs6q8
Epicore is movie music that dispenses with the constraint of having a movie attached, although if Michael Maas makes a movie to go with this new album, I'd watch it - http://open.spotify.com/album/2h1zP186J907CFotmasvRn
There are too many artists called Said, but one of them is a great J-rock band, and I don't know anything else about them because you their EP is just called "Blue" and you try googling that - http://open.spotify.com/album/5gcYLebyRDHferNYoLUmai
Dimension could use a better name for their dark uplifting trancestep, too - http://open.spotify.com/album/3J9vurfJnDeKPPsvZ5EPsK
Finnish electro-rock band Sara have been recording since 1999, so I guess I should stop complaining about names - http://open.spotify.com/album/0MSxEoQJJkBCLLdf6sxzCC
Chelsea Grin do brutal symphonic technical headcrushcore - https://open.spotify.com/track/0IsUP9w5qgx4fPt9l11d8u
Graveshadow do beauty-and-the-beast mixed-vocal gothic symphonic metal - http://open.spotify.com/album/2s8G1PeaiiHA8JKZRDib3s
Escalane swap the symphonic middle of gothic symphonic metal out for some pop-punk surge - http://open.spotify.com/album/2Hdp7Sy10y551pSLK1rv1h
And Camaron Marvel Ochs is a perfectly tremendous name for what happened when a freak nuclear accident during the recording sessions for the Jewel/Dolly Parton duet resulted in them fusing into one, so if we all pretend she didn't decide to go by just Cam, maybe she won't - http://open.spotify.com/album/5KlzsMAsw5NujrJVQtjQAB

hey glenn, Purple is on spotify but for some reason not listed on the crow's nest. any idea why?

For some reason we have it as having been first available in August, so it got filtered out. This is obviously wrong, and I can't figure out where the date even came from. Will get it fixed.

New Particles, 2015-12-18
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2eDKCXKrH2BTOfBad824Wa

Tau Cross - In which Rob Miller demonstrates that he's ready to carry on Lemmy's metal-vocal legacy.
June 1974 - Robot euphoria.
MOTHXR - Drifty, synthpoppy astral soul.
Kelsea Ballerini - Taylor? Doesn't ring any bells in this town, no.
TeraBrite - Hello from the pop-punk side.
楊凱琳 - Big Pop is thriving in Taiwan.
Secrets Of The Moon - Throaty, non-shrieky black doom.
Martriden - Gruff, soaring progressive death metal.
Cloak of Altering - Experimental scary metal noises and choking sounds.
Stielas Storhett - Russian experimental atmospheric black metal.
Sanzu - Perth Australian blast-grind.
Diiv - Chiming Brooklyn indie post-punk.
Primal Fear - Remember when metal sounded like Quiet Riot?
Serenity - Galloping prog-metal.
Cryonic Temple - Anthemic, mildly-cyber power-metal.
Ihsahn - Sprawling progressive-atmospheric-black-death-thrash-everything metal.
朱俐靜 - Taiwanese idol-pop with extra guitars? OK.
Modeselektor - Menacing atmospheric dance-proof post-step.
Laura Bono - Grand Italian arena-pop-rock.
Finley - Italian pop-rock Lego theme-music.
Elliphant - Hesitant, muttery indietronica.
Bucovina - Surging non-twiddly Romanian folk-metal.
Grimner - Surging non-non-twiddly Sweden viking folk-metal.

(part 2)

Carina Dahl - Mesmerizing Norwegian techno-dance-pop.
Baroness - This is the new state of the art in Hard Rock.
Rick Springfield - Still, in my opinion, one of the best pure pop songwriters alive.
Obscura - Technical death metal.
Exmortus - Shreddy-not-"technical" power/death metal.
Dan Bull - Languid non-Christmas Christmas grime.
NateWantsToBattle - Bouncy antiviral-pop-punk sort-of-Christmas anti-Christmas anthem.
CHVRCHES - Twitchy, plausible Goldroom remix of a song that didn't exactly have to be remixed.
East India Youth - Can Blanck Mass please handle all mixing of East India Youth songs from now on?
Dark The Suns - Propulsive, raspy gothic metal.
Leah Turner - Pealing country-pop power-balladry.
The Starting Line - Sturdy modern uplift.
Bocuma - 20-track "remix" album so mood-coherent that I suspect the remixers are imaginary.
Middlepicker - One of their several yearning old Minneapolis indie-punk records happily brought into the streaming era.
YOHIO - Sweden's best j-rock singer's 2014 album finally available elsewhere.
Opera Magna - Spanish symphonic hyper-power-metal.
The Dunwells - Quiet, emotive Leeds indie-folk-pop.
Varg - Epic pagan blast-metal.
vad fruttik - Dark, dense Hungarian rock.
Natasa Bekvalac - Portentous Servian turbo pop.
Modernistit - Jumpy Finnish indie rock.
Aikapommi - Ragged Finnish pop punk.
Rautalintu - Shouty Finnish punk rock.
Nelver - Russian ambient epicstep.
Rookiez Is Punkd - Terribly-named but fairly-great anthemic j-rock.

and my pick of the week:

Fesway - Elegant, intricate, arrestingly self-posessed Mexican atmospheric experimental indie-pop.

Beatles seem kinda noteworthy.

and new

i like the new linkable look glenn!

New Particles, 2015-12-25
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2EaEgYFRl1THPs0KwpOlw8

FARRO - Springy, heroic arena-pop.
Bear Mountain - Fluttery Vancouver indie stomp-and-blip pop.
NateWantsToBattle - Minecraft-emo-core "Hello" cover.
TeraBrite - Crushcrunch pop-screamo Bieber cover.
Clare Dunn - Blaring country-rock shredding.
Samantha Crain - Heartbreaking, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"-grade indie-folk storytelling.
ANOHNI - Clattery chamber-indie r&b-step collaboration between Antony Hegarty, Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never.
廖文強 - Expansive, earnest, guitar-lashed Taiwanese pop-rock.
Marnero - Italian progressive blackened punk.
Cotton Mather - Hyper-neo-trad power-pop.
Tokami - Soaring visual-kei dramatics.
Future World Music - The epicore musical-equivalent of a coffee-table book of stock landscape photography.
Ed Kuepper - Atmospheric haunted-folk abstract-poetic hymns.

Aedliga - And my own last frayed song for the year.

The images on the sorting hat and general cleanup is EXCELLENT!

Thanks!

New Particles, 2016-01-01
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5c4Nv5XyD6VDEDBEiSGPgM

Rooxx - Swirling miniature electro-opera.
The Agonist - Churning/soaring progressive melodic death metal.
Oscar - Bastille with more of a Morrissey thing.
Ra Ra Riot - Bouyant, chirpy metropop.
Foxes - Halting, ethereal, fractured astral soul.
Yusuke Tsutsumi - Scorecore snap-crescendo.
Dioramic - Sharpened German alt-rock alt-post-metal.
Bright Light Bright Light - Stripped-down piano-voice versions of a lot of BLBL songs and Kate Bush's "Love and Anger".
Fabiola - Massive arena-pop-rock from a Guatemalan reality-show survivor.
Ephyra - Shimmery Russian synth-rock.
Wontolla - Progressive uplifting wobbletrancestep.
Sweetfire - Ringing hard-rock pop-punk.
Autumn Creatures - Twitchy, coruscating post-rock.
Ghosts of Pandora - Speed-bludgeoning thrashmetalcore.
We Have Castles - Grandly fluttery indietronic ping-pop.

New Particles, 2016-01-08
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/0cnRE1FBgUDPBLk77xLpWi

Some new, some catch-up...

Anaria - Punchy gothic rockish gothic metal.
Axxis - Bounding heavy power metal.
Lyriel - Gothic folk metal.
Weeping Silence - Gothic symphonic black metal.
Divine Ascension - Solid, crunchy progressive power metal.
Beach Slang - Glorious warmhearted old-Replacements-style punk rock.
Darlene Love - Jubillant neo-Motown pop-rock-soul.
Laura - I am now rooting for Estonia to win Eurovision.
The Sun - I mean, they did win it once before.
Cartoon - So it's not the craziest idea.
HOLYCHILD - Brash synth-rock dance-punk.
Hope Drone - Epicore post-rock black-post-metal.
Eight Bells - Splattery post-rock math-doom.
Dan Croll - Spiky satellite-transmission indie-pop.
Vaults - Twinkling, humming art-indie.
White Sea - Ambient-metropopolian actual-indie-movie soundtrack music.
Beseech - Dense, breathy, heavy shoegazecore.
Cloudscape - Epic power metalcore.
Shakira - If your idiotic animated-wisecracking-rodent movie comes with a new Shakira song, that's at least something.
Inverloch - Australian not-quite-funerial death-doom.
The Lion's Daughter - Howling St. Louis black-sludge misanthropy.
Sizzy Rocket - High-gloss dance-synth-pop.
Ylvis - A cappella a cappella parody (called "a capella").
Marit Larsen - Ringing Norwegian folk-pop.
Monica Naranjo - Epic, Spanish opera-crossover pop.
The Thermals - Thrashed, ragged, braying lo-fi catharsis.
Sunflower Bean - Airily twee NY nu-gaze indie-pop.
Cam - Spotify Session from my favorite new country singer.
Evans Blue - Menacing Canadian alt-rock.
Passion - Masterful, if evangelical, Christian progressive arena-rock.
Mayonnaise - Apparently I'd like the Foo Fighters more if they were Pinoy.
Danny Cocke - Relentlessly portentous epicore trailer music not (yet) from actual movies.
Exmortus - Cheerfully twiddly neo-thrash/power metal.

and my pick of the week, which I would have swapped in for Nightwish in my 2015 top 10 if I'd heard it in time:

Phantasma - Fantabulous hypermelodic neo-progressive concept-metal by Delain+Everon+Serenity members.

New Particles, 2016-01-15
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1o203VtVTVnK7PXnYHd8HT

戴愛玲 - Shimmery Taiwanese arena-pop.
The Murder of My Sweet - Soaring pop gothic symphonic metal.
朱俐靜 - Ticking big-machine c-pop.
Wilde - Metropopolis swoon.
VHS Head - Compupunk.
張惠妹 - The 80s are alive and meticulously preserved in Taiwan.
Tanya Tagaq - Speaking in antimatter tongues.
Imperial Age - Heroic symphonic metal.
Basia Bulat - Chiming Canadian indie-folk-pop.
Tonight Alive - State-of-the-art high-gloss pop-punk.
Skunk Anansie - Remember rock bands?
Lucius - Swirly quirk-pop.
Shearwater - Shearwater is the greatest indie band in the world if their latest song is later than the Mountain Goats' latest.
Ed Tullett - Pixelated astral soul.
AURORA - Indietronic stomp-and-holler.
Santigold - Post-world arena-mixtape groove.
Catey Shaw - Pop-synth-funk strut.
Cardiknox - Serious retro-synthetic bounce.
Moenia - Even more-seriously-synthpop beep-pop.
Hello Seahorse! - If you aren't following Mexican indie, you're missing the "America" in North America.
Basement - Pop-punk neo-blur post-emo.
Bearings - Sparkly way-post-emo pop-punk.
Dressy Bessy - Post-twee punk-cultural art-rock.
Prince Rama - Whooshy dance-punk.
Elisa - Glorious Italian arena-pop.
The 69 Eyes - Glam-macho gothic rock.
Nina Nesbitt - Scottish/Swedish folk-pop singer goes full dance-pop.

(part 2)

Delain - Gothic pop-symphonic metal.
Triángulo de Amor Bizarro - Mexican popgaze.
Glint - There is a universe where Radiohead didn't go nihilist.
Primal Fear - There is a universe where we all walk around in armor.
LaFee - German arena-pop.
Escala - Epic electro-bow-pop.
Dr Peacock - Enyastep.
The Dunwells - Stomp and quaver.
Blossom - If Paramore was one too many Paramores for you, you probably don't want this, either.
Laura Mvula - Post-world plus Nile Rodgers.
Misun - Angular DC twee-punk.
Standing Egg - Korean indie-pop (not K-pop).
Ylona - I think they're gearing up for Eurovision in Finland, too.
Wintersleep - Dense, earnest Halifax indie-rock.
Bob Mould - Measured, pealing, Mould.
Varg - Folk-death.
Retropop - The best Finnish J-pop band I know.
Slutface - Norwegian chirp-punk.
Holy Esque - Hoarse Scottish cathartic guitar-indie.
Oscar - Sly, distantly post-new-wave Mancunian pop duet.
Ära Kra - German progressive black metal.
Bloodiest - Chicago post-rock/doom-metal.
Sweden - No, really, don't call your bouyant Norwegian power-pop band "Sweden".
Babe Rainbow - Vaporwave was a perfectly good idea.
Tribulation - Remix/demo epilogue to last year's many-poll-winning neo-trad metal album.
Khors - Remixed reissue of 2010 pagan black metal record.
Wyldr - Yearning big-sky indie-rock.
Odio París - Surging Spanish nu gaze.
Ани Лорак - Florid Russian dance-pop.
Belako - Echoey Spanish-indie synth-drum dance-rock.
School Of Seven Bells - Heartbreaking memorial dream-pop.

And the record of the year so far, obviously:

David Bowie - You hear my voice, but I was already gone.

new baaba maal too!

extremely into everything oscar has released so far

New Particles, 2016-01-22
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/3wHipKzkgtGttQMhuSSyv9

Alexx Mack - Do you want to be a pop star YES YES?
Ignea - Ukrainian progressive melodic symphonic metal.
Blackthorn - Epic symphonic Russian monumental black death epicness.
Anna Meredith - Abstruse, redemptive-repetitive experimental fugue-pop.
St. Lucia - Indietronic singalong uplift.
Primal Fear - Sinewy, reverent neo-trad HEAVY metal.
Sia - In her secret lab, Sia has finally succeded in cross-breeding "Chandelier" with "Firework".
Borknagar - Norwegian black folk metal without so much Norwegian, black or folk in it.
Abbath - Norwegian black metal with as much Norwegian and black as technically and posthumanly possible.
Ulver - What the world sounds like after Norwegian black metal scrambles your brain but doesn't kill you.
Anette Olzon - The good thing about having your desire to make Nightwish into a pop-metal band temporarily quashed is that it's easier to make a new pop-metal solo band than it is to make another Nightwish.
L'endeví - Gritty Spanish gothic not-so-symphonic metal.
JMR - Twitchy astral soul.
Eric Prydz - Progressive uplifting transformative melodic trance pop.
Kleidosty - EDM in which the D is Drift.
Margaret Berger - Beepy, melancholic dream-pop.
Marit Larsen - Rich, fragile folk-pop.
Monica Naranjo - Balletic opera-metal-pop.
Perturbazione - Big, twittery Italian indie-pop-rock.
Álfheimr - Icelandic-sounding Australian Norse mythological electro-abstractica.
Muncie Girls - Magnificently unglossy twee punk.
Caroline Kole - Can you be a former child star if you're still only 18?
Latitudes - Chewy, textural instrumental-post-rock surges.
Maj Karma - Dense Finnish dark rock.
Girugamesh - Florid, shouty J-kei-core.
Infernal Tenebra - Croatian progressive melodic death metal.
Renate - Not the Estonian dubstep-dance-pop singer, but sweet German pop-schlager is good, too.
Peoplemover - Swoony, fuzzy LA indie-pop.
Royal Tusk - Soaring Alberta indie guitar-rock. Apparently there was one "Royal ____" name left after all.
Sleeping At Last - Lullaby for the bearded.
Xuso Jones - Spanish viral-pop heartthrob.

(part 2)

Fjørt - Barky German semi-post-screamo.
Simon Patterson - Progressive uplifting epic giant-hook trance pop.
Hannah - Understated dreamy California indie band understating themselves a little too much by picking a nearly search-proof name.
Belako - Neo-UK-post-punk. But actually from Spain.
K. Michelle - Ultrasmooth trap&r&b.
Ayse Hatun Onal - Fluttery Turkish dance-pop.
Fallulah - Grand, swoopy metropop.
Timoteij - Airy Swedish synth-dance-pop.
Tender - Distracted, simmery, halting indietronica.
WTCHCRFT - Evasive post-vaporwave synth chatter.
Claudia De Breij - Twangy Dutch country-pop.
BiSH - It wasn't a genre with just BABYMETAL, but it definitely is now.
Daniel Haaksman - Spare, lilting post-world idiophonics.
Kianush - Stentorian German epicore/hip-hop.
Savages - Pummeling post-rock post-punk.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - A long song, but a short essay. There are many ways to be brave, but this is one.
Eric Prydz - Unhurried anthemic trance pop.
Eric Prydz - You only have to take a little trance out of the EDM to get back to New Wave.
La Ley - Earnest Chilean pop-rock.
Annika Aakjær - The Dutch Frida Sundemo?
Cheap Trick - Celebrate Hall of Fame induction with a song that could easily be a museum exhibit for "Rock and Roll Music".
The Jezabels - Measured, meditative Australian indie rock.
Rose Noire - Surreal Japanese crossover-as-evasion baroque chamber-metal.
麥振鴻 - Chinese TV-drama epicore.
Fruitcake - Too Much Joy as a British neo-post-punk band?

and my picks of the week:

Roly Porter - Ambient epicore universe-unbounding noise-catharsis.
John Cale - 34 years later, Cale confronts Music for a New Society and tries again.
Shearwater - The band from which I now retroactively re-survey the significance and extent of "indie rock".

Thanks, glenn. Annoying that almost nothing by Marit Larsen is available on Spotify here and her records have only ever been available on import. Not sure what she has got against the UK.

Margaret Berger bringing the potty mouth this time! Good song though.

New Particles, 2016-01-29
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2uwsUGP5DaGUdTvDyaBayj

The Algorithm - Djentronica.
Best of Dream Catalogue, 2814-2815 - Vaporwave is neither imaginary nor dead.
Betablock3r - In 1988 this is what I bought 12" New Wave singles hoping to find on the back.
St. Lucia - This is the chvrch where we dance.
Sivik - Is it still a trap if you curl up cozily inside?
Avantasia - (Bat Out of Hell + Rage for Eden + Frozen) * power metal.
Primal Fear - Yes, somebody still makes Heavy Metal records.
Serenity - Power-metal show-tunes.
Amon Amarth - Leathery Viking-metal timelessness.
Dream Theater - The opposite of leathery, and at over 2 hours also nearly the opposite of timeless, this is basically Dream Theater's version of 2112 and Endless Forms Most Beautiful and maybe a few episodes of Star Wars. I'm going to at least try to listen to it.
School Of Seven Bells - Beautiful and heartbreaking and hopeful and beyond hope.
POP ETC - I'm surprised there aren't more bands trying to capitalize on AWOLNATION's formula.
Foxes - Big, Sia-ish epic pop.
Suuns - Fractured post-punk twang-math.
The Joy Formidable - Possibly there is now going to be blues-gaze.
Spektr - Cryptic distended distempered avant-garde corrosive-atmospheric black metal.
Sia - This is what Adele would sound like if she were afraid of people but not technology or anything else.
Anja Nissen - Danish-Australian Voice-winning Eurovision-aspirant.
Joba - Italian pop-rock sounding more Latin than usual.
The Old Wind - Strangled, staggering black doom.
Black Tusk - Hammering black thrash.
Marit Larsen - Chiming Norwegian indie-folk-pop.
Monica Naranjo - Spanish pop-opera concept-epic.
Tancred - Springy, neo-Blake-Babies-ish lo-fi jangle-punk.
Secret Stuff - Straining post-emo math-pop.
Brand X Music - Hypothetical theatrical.
The Crookes - Wiry, anxious Brit-indie guitar-rock.
Puppet - Wistful, yearning indie-pop shelled in game-core/cat-step body-armor.
Vinterblot - Pounding Italian pagan black/death metal.
The Sound Bee HD - Cybergothic visual kei.
Walking On Cars - Stompy Irish pop-rock like Little Green Cars imagining dragons.
SKIES - Beepy UK alt-synth-rock.
Dismissed - Gothenburg jazz-punk like a lost Joe Jackson glam era.
New Arcades - Retro-synth aurora-shimmer.
Sebastián Yepes - Ex-singer of Colombian Latin-rock band Sanalejo goes full arena-pop.
Raubtier - Stentorian, German-sounding Swedish industrial rock.
Turbostaat - Pungent German indie post-punk.
Gamze - Mech-shiny Turkish crossover dance-pop.
Пропаганда - Coy Russian t.A.T.u./Shampoo doll-pop trio (whose name translates as Propaganda, which isn't going to help anything).
Teksti-TV 666 - Bleary Finnish street-punk.

And my pick of the week:

Runrig - The 14th and likely final album by the greatest ever rock band from the Isle of Skye.

New Particles, 2016-02-05
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/7cSBs3L2JE7aFfsawA4CMR

Chthe'ilist - Totemic Montreal groaning-obelisk metal.
Marcin Przybyłowicz - Gripping Polish/Celtic folk-metal-epicore soundtrack from a video game I don't expect to ever play.
Fatherson - Scottish heartbroken grandeur.
Deftones - Genre-skimming pings across post-punk nu-gaze this time.
Amoral - Dense post-prog melodic death-metal.
Inverloch - Even denser funereal Australian doom.
Döria - Shiny, earnest Spanish heavy metal.
Erik Ekholm - Spectral metal-edged epicore.
Flor - Boundingly anthemic indietronic pop.
Blondfire - Galloping indie pop-rock.
Monakr - Burbling astral synth-pop EP expanding on last year's great "Diamonds".
Florio - Modern indietronic channeling of old disco-pop/freestyle energies.
Little Green Cars - Dark, welling Irish folk-pop.
Allie X - The alternate-universe synthpop Charli XCX.
Eric Prydz - EDM's simplified progressive electro-house further simplified, ingeniously, by hammering it into an old, misshaped rock-album mold without scraping some leftover Vangelis out of it first.
The Cult - Unexpectedly mature and confident modern melodic-post-punk guitar-rock from another band that could have given up decades ago.
Love of Lesbian - Alternately murky and sparkling Catalonian indie rock.
Anesthesia - Lucid, unhurried ambient-atmospheric post-post-rock.
Full Of Keys - Towering Swedish hyperpop.
Saxon - Deathless old-guard heavy metal.
Dilana - Blustery glam-rock squall.
Mass Gothic - Crisp, punchy, synth-dance-rock solo rebirth by the guy from Hooray for Earth.
Eagulls - The new Chamleons.
September Girls - Fraying, blurry Irish noise-pop.

(part 2)

Chase Rice - Scrape the twangy singing and the few stray bits of banjo off this totally undeniable country song and what's left could be pretty much anything.
Justin Chain - But refurbished garage-sale album-rock is cheaper and works just as well.
Obscura - Archetypal tempomorphing technical death-metal.
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Gothic industrial death-metal verging on epicore extravagance.
Maj Karma - Djent complexity multifolded back into dark blades.
Agonizer - Melodic Finnish semicore metal.
Violet Cold - Transcendental Azerbaijan experimental melodic post-black metal.
Hellberg - Elegant catstep-derived trance-pop.
Wontolla - Frantic, twitchy EDM-rock.
Yokozuna - Bracing Mexico City experimental noise-rock.
Prince Rama - Coruscating, lilting art-pop.
Lonely The Brave - Haunting, surging Brit-guitar-rock.
High Tides - Shiny, eager, math-nostalgic pop-emo.
Nina Nesbitt - Stark, glossy-duotoned Scottish-is-the-new-Swedish art-dance-pop.
Chelsea Effect - Measured, ominous transliteration of Adele-ish drama into muted Eurovision tones.
Shallou - Silky, murmuring indie-r&b-ish gauze-pop.
Marionette - Pagan post-black post-rock.
Marcus Warner - Jubillant, shimmery folk-epicore.
Sabina Ddumba - Poised, earnest, Tasmin-Archer-reminiscent pop-r&b.
The Animal In Me - Melanie Martinez's drifty "Soap" as shouty, crunchy pop-emo-punk.
Morphinist - Grindingly raw black cathartic metal not nearly as nihilistic as it pretends.
Ember Island - Elegiac Swedish atmopop.
Kashuks - Textural Latvian solo-producer's episodic ambient/post-rock/dubstep assembly.
Christian Reindl - Crashing trance/epicore pop.
Susanna - Norwegian experimental compositor goes This Mortal Coil.
Tombs - Progressive black metal pushing (or distending) into Boris-esque noise-rock.

Oh, and the long-awaited and painfully bittersweet reissue of one of the greatest cryptic power-pop albums of all time:

Game Theory - Lolita Nation.

Field Music - Commontime

Why "painfully bittersweet"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Miller_(pop_musician)

Listening now. Thanks for the rec. Although actually I started listening earlier due to tipsy mothra rave review elsewhere.

New Particles, 2016-02-12
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5wyztAAXdfyXJI281cKYLb

TeraBrite - It doesn't even matter whose songs they're covering.
Little Jinder - Sparklyshimmering Swedish poptronica.
Kitten - Ringing, crashing widescreen giant-chorus pop.
Cardiknox - Brash, whirring-gear hyperpop.
Mint Julep - Pulsing, lyrical gauze-pop.
Pinkshinyultrablast - Either the first or second most self-explanatorily-named band in the world. It's them or Bolt Thrower.
Ihsahn - Symphonic Norwegian everything-metal.
Rotting Christ - This is what it sounds like when your forgotten monuments wake up and crush you.
Cirith Gorgor - Mordor hates tourists.
Germ - Roaring Australian blackgaze.
CHINAH - Stark, glassy vapor soul.
Maya Payne - Slow, defiant synth-pop cross between "Die Young" and "Fight Song".
nrwy - In addition the Seed Vault, they remember how to make big British indie guitar rock in Norway.
Electric City - Maybe there's a lion on the cover because they just like lions. Maybe he sings like that because he's just straining earnestly to hit the notes. Maybe there's a terrible "rap" in the middle of one of these over-earnest Hinder-like too-alt-to-be-actually-alternative song as a bit of self-deprecating irony. Or maybe this is a crowd-funded, cartoonishly stereotype-fulfilling Christian "hard"-rock band that I will be the only atheist to ever play, much less put on a playlist with a band called Love of Lesbian.
Love of Lesbian - Gruff, exuberant Spanish indie punk. I don't think they're singing about the inner glow of God's great love, but it's not like I actually translated the Spanish, so it's hard to claim it matters.
Río Roma - Glorious Mexican pop/trad boy-band duo.
Algora - Blocky, almost chip-tuned Madrid indie-pop.
Twin River - Vancouver jangle-gaze.
Mogwai - A couple slight, soundtracky ambient meditations.
Dear Jack - Magnificent Italian arena-pop-rock.
Chiara Dello Iacovo - Apparently in Italy even TV talent-shows are used to identify disconcertingly talented singer-songwriters.
Adiam - My favorite, as far as I know, Eritrean/Swedish singer returns sounding a little like FKA Twigs crossed with Rihanna.
Postiljonen - Dreamy Swedish synth-pop.
Nord & Syd - Portentous Swedish orch-pop.
Kerridge - Shaped, but relentless, but conscious, but abrasively unwelcoming pulsebeat noise-art.
Kid Antoine - Instrumental nightbus future-footwork post-grime sound-designer thing.
Omnium Gatherum - Blasting Finnish death metal. I'm still mad at myself for not overcoming jet-lag to go see the triple-um bill of Omnium Gatherum, Insomnium and Enisferum when I had the chance last year.
The Resistance - Swedish melodic-death-metal veterans re-group to take death metal back to an elemental near-hardcore intensity.