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Hi! Hey, a lot of you know that I'm currently recovering from a stroke, but if you don't know, this is what happened. On February 2, 2021 I had a pseudo-aneurysm that became a hemorrhagic strok...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2021/10/update.html

Ragged Lines by Kelsey Ayers "KEEP TALKING" Asbury Park's Ragged Lines began as a songwriting project for Carter Henry following the dissolution of his previous band, Monterey (who we inter...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/05/interview-ragged-lines-on-life-during.html

051480 Our good friend Tom Barrett (Overlake, Tom Barrett and The Cuts, WAVE) released 051480 this week. It's a quiet and intimate portrait of life during lockdown that Tom originally inte...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/04/interview-tom-barrett-on-his-new-album.html

Yawn Mower at the Could Eat, Would Sleep release show in 2018 "OPERATORS" Almost 2 years ago to the day, on 4/20/2018, Yawn Mower released their EP Could Eat, Would Sleep on Mint 400 Recor...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/04/premiere-new-video-from-yawn-mower.html

Lowlight from the very last set I shot before the world changed. Not the best pic ever, but I had to get the disco ball into at least one shot for Renee. "JULIAN" Am I gonna start every pos...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/04/new-single-from-lowlight.html

Heartour's Jason Young by Dillon G. Artzer "BRAIN" It's been 9 years since Jason Young released his last album as Heartour . During that time, Young's other project, Los Angeles indie-pop b...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/04/premiere-new-single-from-las-heartour-r.html

Sweet Spirit by Roger Ho "NO DANCING" You'd think that I'd have been using the last several weeks of statewide lockdown to discover new music and write about it here. Welp, it hasn't really...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/04/new-single-video-from-sweet-spirit.html

"I'M NOT ME (IF I'M NOT WITH YOU)" HollowBoy is Matthew Kessig, former drummer for Corrina, Corrina. His HollowBoy project is a solo endeavor. The latest effort from HollowBoy is a noisy, 3...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/04/new-track-from-hollowboy.html

We'll all be together in large crowds again at some point. Until then... TOGETHER, TOGETHER ALONE So, I feel like this quarantining thing is gonna be going on for a while -- like months. W...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/04/livestream-sites.html

The Vansaders at Wonder Bar back in February "RED AND BLUE" Back on Leap Day 2020, before the era of social distancing and shelter-in-place, The Vansaders celebrated the release of Quixote ...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/04/the-vansaders-release-new-lyric-video.html

ALBUM REVIEW By Henry Lipput What would you call a musical side project that's more active than the main unit? You might call it Demitasse. Demitasse are Joe Reyes and Erik Sanden who a...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/demitasse-perfect-life-2020.html

"TWO-WAY MIRROR" It's that time of year again: time for NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. Yesterday, Rudy Meier of Wetbrain shared a solo contribution. Filmed at Lampshade Studios by Kris Khunachak...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/npr-tiny-desk-submission-from-wetbrain.html

Snail Mail kicks off Uncancelled Fest today at 4pm EDT. SOCIALIZE DISTANTLY UPDATE: This is getting really difficult. Sessions seem to get announced every few hours or just happen spontaneou...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/running-livestream-post.html

The first band I saw at SXSW 2019 was Black Midi MISSING AUSTIN So, I had a reservation to leave from Newark for Austin at 12:25pm today for South By Southwest. On March 6th, the city of Au...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/sxsw-2020-playlist.html

ALBUM REVIEW By Henry Lipput Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits: Songs From The South 1985 - 2019 is a collection of songs that chart Kelly's remarkable journey through pop, rock, folk, bluegrass, a...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/paul-kelly-paul-kellys-greatest-hits.html

gods play Wonder Bar on Thursday. WHAT'S GOING ON INDEED Greetings from CDMHQ where CD2's school is closed with no word of when it may re-open, where the college where CD1's swim team pract...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/whats-going-on-312-313-314-315-2020.html

ALBUM REVIEW By Rose Lamela I remember hearing Caroline Rose's album Loner back in 2018. It got me to stop what I was doing, and I replayed it a few times on the same day. This happens ever...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/caroline-rose-superstar-2020.html

Heart Bones at The Saint HOT DISH I wrote some things about Heart Bones' debut LP, Hot Dish, here a few days ago. It was the first album review sort of thing I've done here in quite a whil...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/heart-bones-played-saint-with-real.html

Double the fun on our Anniversary Weekend 8 YEARS OF COOLDAD MUSIC!!! Today is the 8th Anniversary of the first-ever post at CoolDad Music. Running this site (especially putting together th...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/whats-going-on-35-36-37-38-2020.html

ALBUM REVIEW I've already listened to a ton of albums in 2020. New records from King Krule, Soccer Mommy, Greg Dulli, Kiwi Jr., Exmaid, Spinning Coin, Destroyer, Beach Bunny, Best Coast, Grim...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/03/heart-bones-hot-dish-2020.html

Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females by Rose Lamela GARDEN PARTY Most words and all pics by Rose Lamela This is my fourth February seeing Screaming Females start the year off with a ...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/02/photos-screaming-females-played-white.html

The Vansaders celebrate their split 7" release with latewaves at Wonder Bar on Saturday. LEAP WEEKEND It's a presidential election year and an Olympic year, so that means we get an extra da...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/02/whats-going-on-227-228-229-31-2020.html

ALBUM REVIEW By Henry Lipput I know exactly what Marshall Crenshaw meant when he recently said, "I love it that phonograph records are popular again." I was able to buy his first four alb...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/02/marshall-crenshaw-miracle-of-science.html

"BIG TEARS" The Battery Electric have been part of the CoolDad Music family since some of our earliest days. Things haven't been the same here in Asbury Park since Brent (Bergholm) and Ron ...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/02/new-video-from-battery-electric.html

Screaming Females play White Eagle Hall on Saturday. GARDEN PARTY I've personally been taking it pretty easy show-wise. But there's some stuff that should be able to get anyone out this wee...

http://www.cooldadmusic.com/2020/02/whats-going-on-220-221-222-223-2020.html