Sunday, October 29, 2017

Sonic Bliss 17-44

Sonic Bliss #17-44
October 25 - 29, 2017
Black & Orange Spirit Day?  Oh, please





        Hour 1        
The City Sleeps - MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Rest - Charlotte Gainsbourg
No Reason - Bonobo w/Nick Murphy
Anna - Taken By Trees
Without A Plan - Lusine
Stars - Dubstar
Blood Of My Blood - Tricky, Scriptonite
Venus As A Boy - Bjork
Sixtyniner - Boards of Canada
Let's Go Out Tonight - Craig Armstrong
Goldfrapp - Simone

        Hour 2        
Anything With You - Hillton FM
Budapest Eskimos - The Lushlife Project
Strange And Beautiful - Aqualung
Just A Memory - Odesza & Regina Spektor
Orbit Of Me - Delerium w/Leigh Nash
Louve - Traumer
Black - Daniele Luppi & Danger Mouse f/Norah Jones
I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses
Ab Ova - Joep Beving
Shattered - Koda
Turn To White - She & Him
I Promise - Radiohead
Far Away - All India Radio

        Hour 3        
Need To Feel Loved - UnClubbed w/Zoe Durrant
A Grand Love Theme - Kid Loco
Something About Us - Daft Punk
Fool's Paradise - Cold Specks
Make It Go Away - Holly Cole
Waiting For the Night - Depeche Mode
As The Rush Comes - Motorcycle
Gabriel - Lamb
Lifted Up - Saru
High - Little Dragon
Universal Traveler - Air
Undenied - Portishead
Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus




UTR 17-44 (Daniele Luppi with Parquet Courts)

Under The Radar Radio #17-44
October 29 - November 4, 2017


                   Pick Of The Week                       
  Daniel Luppi & Parquet Courts - MILANO  





















Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - Talisa (w/Karen O)
   MILANO (2017)  Daniele previously worked with Danger Mouse, Norah Jones & Jack White
Luna - Dear Diary
   The Days Of Our Nights (1999)  The pride of New Jersey
Protomartyr - Windsor Hum
   Relatives In Descent (2017)  What was that hum.....nobody knows? 
Iggy Pop - Five Foot One
   New Values (1979)  He really is a little fella
Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending
   Always Ascending (2018)   New album coming in February 2018
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x-Wolf Parade - Weaponized
   Cry Cry Cry (2017)   
Superchunk - Digging For Something
   Majesty Shredding (2010)  Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Liam Gallaher - I Get By
   As You Were (2017)  In Detroit at Masonic Temple 02-09-18
Morrissey - I Wish You Lonely
   Low In High School (2017)   New album on 11-17
The Afghan Whigs - Oriole
   In Spades (2017) 
Television - See No Evil
   Marquee Moon (1977)   This lineup only existed for one album
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - Memphis Blues Again 
   MILANO (2017)  Daniele is from a little town in Italy called Roma
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x-Nicole Atkins - Brokedown Luck
 Goodnight Rhonda Lee (2017)
Dinosaur Jr - Goin' Home
   Where You Been? (1993)   Hard to believe it's 24 years old
Calexico - End OF The World With You
   The Thread That Keeps Us (2018)  New album 01.26.18
Blitzen Trapper - Wild and Reckless
   Wild and Reckless (2017)  Next week's Pick Of The Week
The Feelies - The Good Earthe
   The Good Earth (1986)
Gord Downie - A Natural 
   Introduce Yourself (2017)  The late singer from Tragically Hip
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x-Sonic Youth - 100%
  Dirty (1992)
x-Elf Power - Ten Dollars On The Ground
  Twitching In Time (2017(
Pavement - Gold Soundz
   Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)   30th anniversary celebration next year?
Deer Tick - S.M.F. 
   Deer Tick Vol. 2 (2017)   S.M.F. is for Shitty Music Festival  
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - Pretty Prizes (w/Karen O)
   MILANO (2017)  Daniele has composed music for several films
Talking Heads - Pulled Up 
   Talking Heads '77 (1977) 
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Fort Knox
   Who Built The Moon (2017)
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x-Eagulls - Tough Luck
   Eagulls (2014)
Savages - Sad Person
   Adore Life (2016)   One of the best albums from last year
MGMT - Little Dark Age
   Little Dark Age (2018)  New album 01.26.18
Eels - Flyswatter
   Daisies Of The Galaxy (2000)
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - Mount Napoleon
   MILANO (2017)   
a-Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
   Still In Hollywood (1994)  Happy Halloween
x-Tender - Vow
   Modern Addiction (2017)

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Sonic Bliss 17-43

Sonic Bliss #17-43
October 18-22, 2017
The stars dripped sunlight all over us today and we devoured it



        Hour 1        
Inside And Out - Feist
Fields Of Green - Careless
Dead To The World - Royksopp
The Motive - Elsiane
Light Of Gold - Skye & Ross
Walls - Beauty's Confusion
Left Bank - Air
See The Light - Sofa Surfers
Poems Of The Past - Fura
Walk In The Park - Beach House
Inherit - Es-K
Ruby's Arms - Frente

        Hour 2        
Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckley
Aquarium - Nosaj Thing
2Wicky - Hooverphonic
Red Light Green Light - Sounds From The Ground
Midnight - Coldplay
Isobel - Bjork
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall - Postmarks
Signs Of Love - Moby
Xtal - Aphex Twin
Begin - Shallou
Destiny - Zero 7
You & Your Sister - This Mortal Coil
Falling Slowly - Swell Season

        Hour 3        
Midnight In A Perfect World - DJ Shadow
Wood Cabin - Saint Etienne
Once Upon A Time - Talvin Signh
Clean Living - The War On Drugs
In Another Tim - Sade
Saturday Come Slow - Massive Attack
Unbounded - Amethystium
Sunny Road - Emiliana Torrini
Bossa Per Emilia - Mike Francis
Petrified - Flunk
Thank Heaven For You - Esthero
The Trapeze Swinger - Iron & Wine
Debut - Melanie Laurent

UTR 17-43 (Wolf Parade)

Under The Radar Radio #17-43
October 22-28, 2017

       Pick Of The Week            
  Wolf Parade - Cry Cry Cry    





















Wolf Parade - You're Dreaming
   Cry Cry Cry (2017)   First album in 7 years
Interpol - My Desire
   El Pintor (2014)  Most recent album
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - Mount Napoleon
   MILANO (2017)  Next week's planned Pick Of The Week
High Dials - Strandhill Sands
   War Of The Wakening Planets (2005)  From Montreal
MGMT - Little Dark Age
   Little Dark Age (2018)    First preview of new album
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Most Serene Republic - I Haven't Seen You Around
   Mediac (2015)   From Milton, Ontario
Django Django - Tic Tac Toe
   Marble Skies (2018) 
Calexico - End Of The World With You
   The Thread That Keeps Us (2018)
Dire Straits - Industrial Disease
   Love Over Gold (1982)  They should be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by now
Wolf Parade - Weaponized
   Cry Cry Cry (2017)   
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Alvvays - In Undertow
   Antisocialites (2017)  From Toronto
Sloan - Money City Maniacs
   Navy Blues (1998)  From Halifax
Destroyer - In The Morning
   ken (2017)   From Vancouver
Tragically Hip - Courage
   Fully Completely (1992)  For Gord Downie (1964-2017)
Broken Social Scene - Towers and Masons
   Hug Of Thunder (2017)  Band has numbered as many as 19 at a time
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   UTR Road Trip: Montreal   
Wolf Parade - Incantation
   Cry Cry Cry (2017)  
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
   The Funeral (2004)  Playing in Windsor on November 1st
Stars - Alone
   There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light (2017)   Brand new album is just out
Stills - Allison Krausse
   Logic Will Break Your Heart (2003)  Not named for the singer Allison Krauss
Leonard Cohen - Democracy
   Democracy (1992)   A poignant song these days
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*PJ Harvey - The Wheel
  The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016)
*Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Blue Cheese
  Lotta Sea Lice (2017)
*Ray LaMontagne - Hey, No Pressure
  Ouroboros (2016)
*Nicole Atkins - Darkness Falls So Quiet
  Goodnight Rhonda Lee (2017)
Dan Croll - Away From Today
   Emerging Adulthood (2017)  
Wolf Parade - Lazarus Online
   Cry Cry Cry (2017) 
Divine Fits - Shivers
   A Thing Called Divine Fits (2010)   Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade is a member of DF

Monday, October 16, 2017

Sonic Bliss 17-42

Sonic Bliss #17-42
October 11-15, 2017

"Today we escape, we escape"




  
        Hour 1        
You Wish - Nightmares On Wax
Travel In Time - Carmen Rizzo w/Kate Havnevik
This Isn't The Place - Nine Inch Nails
Make A Wish - Conjure One w/Poe
Sweet Change - Subground
Bluebird Of Happiness - Mojave 3
A Kissed Out Red Floatboat - Cocteau Twins
That's Not Her Way - eels
Spirit - The Belle Game
Nyquil - Alpha
Mellomaniac - DJ Shah
Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
That Was Another Country - Innocence Mission

        Hour 2        
Bloodstain - UNKLE w/Alice Temple
Sweetest Day - Control Freq
Mirrorball - Everything But The Girl
Two Thousand And Seventeen - Four Tet
I Think Of You - Ivy
Venus - Air
Weather Storm - Massive Attack
Close - Telepopmuzik
Silence - Tender
Burn - Anoushka Shankar
Strawberry - Bionaut
Cannonball - Damien Rice
Caramel - Suzanne Vega

        Hour 3        
Hide And Seek - Imogen Heap
Higher Ground - Weekend Players
Abandon Window - Jon Hopkins
The Gate - Bjork
Stranger In A Room - Jamie xx
White Horses - Dean & Britta
Beautiful Crazy - Space Raiders
Eclipse On 5th - Sounds From The Ground
All Points Back To U - Nosaj Thing
Glory Box - Portishead
Weightless - Marconi Union
Wonderwall - Ryan Adams

Sunday, October 15, 2017

UTR 17-42 (St. Vincent)

Under The Radar Radio #17-42
October 15-21, 2017

                 Pick Of The Week              
     St. Vincent - MASSEDUCTION       






















St Vincent - Pills
  MASSEDUCTION (2017)  Actress Cara Delevinge sings on this track
Phantogram - You Don't Get Me High Anymore
  Three (2016)   Band from upstate New York
Tricky - Dark Days
  uninform (2017)  Mina Rose on co-lead vocals
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
  Rest (2017)   French singer/actress and daughter of Serge Gainsbourg
Hot Chip - Started Right
  Why Make Sense (2015)  
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Holy Mountain
  Who Built The Moon (2017)  Album is out 11.24
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*Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - War Zone
   The Speed Of Things (2013)
*MGMT - Little Dark Age
   Little Dark Age (2018)
of Montreal - Coquet Coquette
  False Preist (2010)    From Athens, Georgia
St Vincent - Masseduction
  MASSSEDUCTION (2017)  Will play at The Fillmore in Detroit 11.14
Passion Pit - I'm Perfect
  Tremendous Sea Of Love (2017)   
!!! - Dancing Is The Best Revenge 
  Shake The Shudder (2017)   
Nine Inch Nails - Less than
  Add Violence EP (2017)   Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored The Vietnam War on PBS
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Tennis - I'm Calling
  Ritual In Repeat (2014)
Poolside - Which Way To Paradise
  Heat (2017)  A duo out of Los Angeles
St. Vincent - Savior
  MASSSEDUCTION (2017)   Do you think she is a Prince fan? 
Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend
  Sign 'O' The Times (1987)   Lead vocal by "Camile", Prince's female alter ego
B-52's - Mesop0tamia
  Mesopotamia EP (1982)  Produced by St. Vincent's friend David Byrne
Washed Out - Hard To Say Goodbye
  Mister Mellow (2017).  Washed Out is the stage name of ernest Greene Jr.
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Glass Animals - Life Itself
  How To Be A Human Being (2016)
Cut Copy - Counting Down
  Haiku From Zero (2017)   United States tour from 11.09 through 12.06 
St. Vincent - Young Lover
  MASSSEDUCTION (2017)  A break-up album you can dance to. 
Polyphonic Spree - Raise Your Head
  Yes, It's True (2013)  St. Vincent (Annie Clark) was once a member of this group
Django Djnago - Tic-Tac-Toe
  Marble Skies (2018)   Album coming out 01.26.18
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*Nice As Fuck - Door
   Nice As F**k (2016)
*TORRES - Helen In The Woods
   Three Futures (2017)
Pixx - Everything Is Weird In America
  Age Of Anxiety (2017)  
Stars - We Called It Love
  There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light (2017).  Only live dates for now are NYC, LA and Toronto
Oh Wonder - Lose It
  Oh Wonder (2015)   British duo
Belle & Sebastian -I'll Be Your Pilot
  How To Solve Our Human Problems EP#2 (2018) 3 EPs coming on 12.8, 01.19.18 and 2.16.18
St. Vincent - Slow Disco
  MASSSEDUCTION (2017)  That is St. Vincent singing at the end of the song

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Sonic Bliss 17-41

Sonic Bliss #17-41
October 4-8, 2017
"There are snails on her plate...."



             Hour 1             
Now We Are Free - Lisa Gerrard & Hans Zimmer
Let It Go - Fauxliage
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service
Fool's Paradise - Cold Specks
Spirtual High (State Of Independence) - Moodswings
A Thousand Stars Burst Open - Pale Saints
Dayvan Cowboy - Boards Of Canada
The Rip - Portishead
Loveless - Lo Moon
Channel 1 Suite - Cinematic Orchestra
Oya - Ibeyi
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Someone To Die For - Belly

             Hour 2             
Gorecki - Lamb
Darkness Veiling The Night - Tangerine Dream
Pheromone - Flunk
History - The Verve
Elemental - Rezonate
Astronauts - One Eskim0
Somebody's Sins - Tricky
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - The Peddlers
Para Sempre - Thievery Corporation
Way We Were - Nosaj Thing
My Truth - Cocteau Twins
Raincoat - Bibio
Dust - Bombay Dub Orchestra

             Hour 3             
Bachelorette - Bjork
Begin - Shallou
April Shower  - De-Phazz
Beautiful Morning - Parov Stela
The Spoils - Massive Attack
The Lonely Night - Moby & Mark Lanegan
I Go To Sleep - Sia
Glow And Fade - Kilby Kennedy
Svefn G Englar - Sigur Ros
Sub Terra - Saru
The Greatest - Cat Power
Nothing Without You - Vienna teng 

UTR 17-41 (Liam Gallagher)

Under The Radar Radio #17-41
October 8-15, 2017

                Pick Of The Week               
     Liam Gallagher - As You Were      




Liam Gallagher - Greedy Soul
  As You Were (2017)  Liam's first official solo album
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Roll Up Your Sleeves
  These Four Walls (2009)  New music coming in 2018
Ted Leo - Run To The City
  The Hanged Man (2017)  Ted is a graduate of Notre Dame
Morrissey - Spent The Day In Bed
  Low In High School (2017)   Back to good health and back on tour
Placebo - The Bitter End
  Sleeping With Ghosts (2003)  Pain and the influence of Bowie are influencing the next album
Breeders - Wait In The Car
  single (2017)  This is their 1993-94 lineup - their heyday. 
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Ages & Ages - How It Feels
  single (2017)  Another band going with just singles for now
Temples - Keep In The Dark
  Sun Structures (2014)   From their debut album
Wolf Parade - Incantation
  Cry Cry Cry (2017)  Coming to the Crofoot in Pontiac, Michigan on October 25th
Daniele Luppi & Parquet Courts - Mount. Napoleon
  MILANO (2017)  Their colaboration will also feature Karen O.
Charlatans - You're So Pretty,  We're So Pretty
  Wonderland (2001)
Liam Gallagher - I've All I Need
  As You Were (2017)  Liam sounding like Oasis again
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Arctic Monkeys - All My Own Stunts
  Suck It And See (2011)  Working on the next album
Blitzen Trapper - Wild & Reckless
  Wild & Reckless (2017)  - New album coming on November 3rd
Diego Garcio - Don't Go
  TBD (2018)   No details on the upcoming album - due next year
Suede - No Tomorrow
  Night Thoughts (2016)    I refuse to call them The London Suede
Protomartyr - Windsor Hum
  Relatives In Descent (2017)   Inspired by a mysterious hum in Windsor, Canada
*Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Holy Mountain
  Who Built The Moon (2017)  -   Out on November 24
*Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat 
  Off With Their Heads (2008)
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Catherine Wheel - Crank
  Chrome (1993)
Ty Segall - Alta
  single (2017)   He continues releasing music at an incredible pace
Liam Gallagher - Bold
  As You Were (2017)  Liam coming to the U.S. in November
Electronic - Feel Every Beat
  Electronic (1990)  Members of New Order, The Smiths & Pet Shop Boys
Kasabian - Are You Looking For Action 
  For Crying Out Loud (2017)  
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*Pickwick - Lying Awake In The Dark
  LoveJoys (2017) 
Paul Weller - It's Written In The Stars
  Illumination (2002)   Paul will be in Detroit on Wednesday Oct. 11th
Rostam - Bike Dream 
  Half-Light (2017)   Former member of Vampire Weekend
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
  Hounds Of Love (1985)  Kate is a Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame nominee this year
Car Seat Headrest - War Is Coming
  single (2017)   Just a single  for now
Liam Gallagher - Chinatown
  As You Were (2017)

Sunday, October 1, 2017

Sonic Bliss 17-40

Sonic Bliss #17-40
September 27 - Ocotober 1, 2017
"Don't you sass me!"



          Hour 1          
Angel - Massive Attack
Ny Space - The Low Intention
Million Miles Away - Washed Out
Red Umbrella - Kostars
Adios - Zimpala
Daylight - Delerium w/Matthew Sweet
Cherry Blossom Girl - Air
Petrified - Flunk
A Violent Noise - The xx
Ten Years - Ulrich Schnauss
The Carnival Is Over - Dead Can Dance
Laura - Bat For Lashes
More Than This - Charlie Hunter & Norah Jones

          Hour 2          
Master Plan - Nightmares On Wax
Blood Of My Blood - Tricky
The Sea - Morcheeba
Inscribed In Jade - Moshang
Fresca - Friends Of Dean Martinez
Please Say You Will - Kaskade
One Too Many Mornings - Chemical Brothers
Half Time - Amy Winehouse
Transatlanticsm - Death Cab For Cutie
Frou Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires - Cocteau Twins
Reindeer King - Tori Amos
Out Of The Rain - Aora
Please Please Pleas Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

          Hour 3          
I Am Stretched On Your Grave - Sinead O'Connor
Speed Dial No. 2 - Zero 7
Gooey - Glass Animals
Everything At Your Feet - Odezsa
That Girl - Esthero 
Everyday - Carly Comando
Lullaby - The Cure
Heaven - Bitter:Sweet
Farewell - UNKLE
We Found Each Other In The Dark - City & Colour
French Movie - Loner
Indian Motorcycles - Sonorous Star
The First Time I Ran Away - M Ward


UTR 17-40 (Tender)

Under The Radar Radio #17-40
Rocktober 1-7, 2017


               Pick Of The Week                
       Tender - Modern Addiction            





















Tender - Machine
  Modern Addiction (2017)  Duo from London
Future Islands - Shadows
  The Far Field (2017)  
The War On Drugs - Pain
  A Deeper Understanding (2017)   My friend John thinks he sounds like Bryan Adams
Ride - Chrome Waves
  Going Blank Again (1992)  
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Continental Breakfast
  Lotta Sea Lice (2017)   New album coming 10.13
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Wild Beasts - Big Cat
  Boy King (2016)
St. Vincent - Los Ageless
  MASSEDUCTION (2017)   New album coming 10.13
Tender - Powder
  Modern Addiction (2017).  This is their debut album
Turnover - Super Natural
  Good Nature (2017)
Mellowdrone - Fashionably Uninvited
  Box (2006)   Saw them open for Johnny Marr in Detroit
Angus & Julia Stone - Oakwood
  Snow (2017)   Siblings from a magical land called Australia
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New Order - Thieves Like Us
  single (1984)   This was recorded soon after the Power Corruption & Lies sessions
Destroyer - Tinseltown Swimming In Blood
  Ken (2017)   Not to be confused with 'Ken: By Request Only'
Tricky w/Mina Rose - Dark Day
  uninform (2017)   Tricky reaching beyond Trip Hop, with glorious results
Tame Impala - The Less I Know the Better
  Currents (2015)   
Belle & Sebastian - We Were Beautiful
  single (2017)    Just a single....no other new release news
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Stars - Real Thing
  There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light (2017).   Album coming 10.13 (that's a big day)
Empire Of The Sun - Way To Go
  Two Vines (2016)   Magical land called Australia, again
Tender - Illuminate
  Modern Addiction (2017)    
Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine
  Rest (2017)   French singer-songwriter and actress.  She's a Lars Van Trier staple
Tahiti 80 - Coldest Summer
  Ballroom (2014)  A French gleam-pop band better than Phoenix
Cut Copy - Standing In The Middle Of The Field
  Haiku From Zero (2017)   Australia - Magical, I'm telling ya. 
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*Fujiya & Miyagi - Taiwanese Boots
   Ventriloquizzing (2011)
*The Lemon Twigs - Why Don't You Say that
   Brothers Of Destruction (2017) 
Jonsi - Animal Arithmetic 
  Go (2010)    Jonsi is the lead singer from Iceland's Siguor Ros
Ibeyi - Me Voy
  Ash (2017)   Twin sisters Lisa-Kainde and Naomi Diaz - born in Paris, lived in Cuba too
Glass Animals - Agnes
  How To Be a Human Being (2016)  
Bluntedbeatz - I Am
  Twin Peaks The Return (2017)  This samples Raphael Saadiq's 'Good Man'
Tender - Erode
  Modern Addiction (2017)
*Tom Petty - A Face In The Crowd

   Full Moon Fever (1989)
*Tom Petty - Wildflowers
   Wildflowers (1994)