Bolachas Now Playing is our Spotify new music playlist, updated every Wednesday, with two hours of brand new tracks. You can follow it here. There are also YouTube Music and Tidal versions, too. Explore this category to see all the 400+ weekly playlists we have created since 2015.
This week on our playlist we showcase the new albums by case/lang/veirs — a collaboration between, yes, Neko Case, k.d. lang and Laura Veirs — and Brandy Clark, one of our favorite country singers of the past years. But there’s more: plenty of American singer-songwriters have been releasing great songs lately, so you know what to expect from this week’s Bolachas Now Playing.
For many, Car Seat Headrest was the “winner” of last week’s NOS Primavera Sound. The young singer-songwriter had just released his latest output, now on Matador, Teens of Denial, the album we’ve chosen to highlight this week on our playlist.
This week on Bolachas Now Playing we feature Lionlimb’s debut record Shoo. You might have heard of them as Angel Olsen’s backing band, but their record is a gem on its own. Plus: Dinosaur Jr, Destroyer, Cass McCombs, Cate Le Bon, Woods, Robert Glasper, Gang of Youths, My Morning Jacket, Andy Shauf,Phosphorescent + Jenny Lewis, Sara Watkins, Hard Working Americans, Robert Ellis, and DEAKIN.
Happy release day to Andy Shauf, whose record The Party is our album of the week! Old favorites Super Furry Animals and Wolf Parade are also back with their first new songs in a while. Plus: new songs by Okkervil River, Karl Blau, Marissa Nadler, Brandy Clark, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Fruit Bats, White Denim, Speedy Ortiz, Mitski, Cullen Omori, Plaid, and Kaytranada.
Plenty of familiar faces on our 16th playlist of the year, and 64th overall. Bolachas Now Playing is getting old, but it won’t retire. Just like the Jayhawks.