The Ledge #724: New Releases Pt. 2

Before we get to a description of this week's episode, I received a wonderful notification earlier this week that this show had hit #31 on MillionPodcast's Best 100 Midwestern Music Podcast chart! Wow! This is quite an honor. 

If I'm going to be honest, I believe it's these monthly new release episodes that have helped get this sort of attention. What other radio show features around four hours of new releases each and every month? Tonight's show, like volume one last week, may be a little shorter from a typical episode but it's jam packed with wonderful tunes.

As usual, there's a set devoted to our friends at Rum Bar Records, including Songs From The Film, the new project of Chazz Matthews of the Cheap Cassettes. The Amplifier Heads once again hit it out of the park, and how can I not love the Paul Westerberg-ish tones of Tad Overbaugh's "July" (plus it features Dave Minehan).

Elsewhere, there's a twofer from a debut album by Taxi Girls that's definitely bound to hit my top ten of the year. There's the return of The Bobby Lees, a couple of fabulous Bob Dylan covers from an upcoming Jem Records tribute to the legend, and plenty more rock, punk, power pop, and Americana. Oh yeah, and I've found yet another new version of "Teenage Kicks". 

What is your favorite new release?

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1. Geek Music - Teenage Kicks

2. Songs From The Film - She Don't Mind

3. Songs From The Film - Waiting For The World to Explode

4. The Amplifier Heads - Rock N Roll Riot

5. Tad Overbaugh - July

6. Soft Palms - Radio

7. Slippers - Reading Lucy's Diary

8. Dear Misses - Lost Mind In Beauty

9. Wine Lips - Projector

10. Genre is death - Safe Songs

11. Taxi Girls - Red Flag Crush

12. Taxi Girls - Midnight Mixtape

13. Baby Jane - vacances a txernòbil

14. Consensus Madness - Attention

15. THE BOBBY LEES - Napoleon

16. River Shook - Fading

17. American Aquarium - Dollar General

18. The Youngers - The Deal

19. Low Cut Connie - Get Down

20. The High Frequencies - Subterranean Homesick Blues

21. Paul Collins - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again

22. Go Dog Go - Back in the Day

23. The NEW Bardots - Go Home

24. David Alpha - Let's Light The Rockets

25. Density Black Cat - Breakaway

26. Bad Stuff - Invisible Man

27. The Heavenly Bodes - De Groene Heuvels

28. Mad Iris - Employee of the Month

29. THE CIRCULATORS - Pointless Game

30. Sugar - Keep Looping