Summer Salt is an Austin-based band that draws inspiration from 60s bands such as The Beach Boys and The Lovin’ Spoonful. It’s interesting how many new acts are tapping into the dominant musical style of that era.
Summer Salt has actually been around for almost a decade, forming in 2012. They released a couple of EPs and a debut studio album, Happy Camper, in 2018. Today’s SOTD is a good representation of the album’s sound.
Today’s Random Weekend selection, like so many of them, is a reminder that I haven’t listened to this artist in too long.
In this case it’s Bruce Springsteen, whose 2012 album Wrecking Ball continued a strong run of material that started in the late 2000s. As with its predecessors, Magic and Working On a Dream, I really enjoyed this album upon its release but stopped listening after awhile.
The Random iTunes Fairy is in a Nashville Skyline mood. Just three weeks back, she served up the song ‘Peggy Day’ from Bob Dylan’s 1969 country-folk album. And today she’s back with another song from the same collection.
I don’t have much to say about this track, as I didn’t about ‘Peggy Day’ three weeks ago. This might be the Dylan album that invites the least dissection. It’s a simple, fun listen.
Here’s another Gen Z artist whom Sophia discovered via social media. Lucia Zambetti, just 16 years old, is “famous” on Instagram and TikTok but really nowhere else.
Modern technology has made it possible not just for teenagers to record and release their own music, but for other teens to easily find it. When I was Sophia’s age, the musical artists I listened to were all much older than me.
Beach Weather was a short-lived project by singer-songwriter Nick Santino, who has also helmed the band A Rocket to the Moon and performed as a solo act.
Santino joined Austin Scates and Reeve Powers to form Beach Weather in 2015. The Massachusetts-based outfit released three well-liked EPs then called it quits in 2017 so the members could pursue solo projects.
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