From weekend reflections about life to a new week, a new season, and a reason to explore new sounds.  Today we celebrate the music we listened to driving around in our crappy cars when the best way to fix that pinging sound in your car was to turn up the radio!  Some of that music hit the Coachella stage this weekend.  After we expand our souls, laugh between sighs when you realize how we avoid people.  More music and music news to start your week.

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A long-time quest to determine where your favorite music sits in the brain continues.  In the meantime, some of us who put music on top of other media, TV, movies, and books can appreciate new music as much as we do the classics from our formative years.   Mark Hoppus from Blink 182 hosts a weekly radio show on Apple Music Hits, and we discover more new music from his show than any other place. 

In the same playlist, a mix of 80s, U2, The Cure, and Psychedelic Furs can sit right next to; Petey, Boy Genius, and Hot Mulligan.  This is a sign of a music lover; it is also why listening to satellite radio and several different channels or curated playlists on streaming services are also beneficial.  Exposure to all kinds of music helps your brain and your soul.  Not to take away from a lopsided volume of classic "comfort music" versus new music, sometimes the mood calls for music that reminds us instead of prods or pokes. 

Listen to radio stations, set the streaming service to a new music station, and improve your algorithm by liking new music.  Call it a rite of spring, a time of great renewal; your mind, body, and spirit will thank you.

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The famous satirical publication, know as The Onion wrote a quick and silly story about a person who delayed leaving a burning house to avoid small talk with neighbors.  It makes you think about how many corners we hide behind or doors we delay opening to avoid conversations these days.  Not to mention calls we procrastinate to make, the fictitious story from The Onion is funny because of how true it has become.

The Stray Cats…. Strut

Tom DeLonge made his reunion debut this weekend at Coachella with the band he formed 30+ years ago with high school buddy Mark Hoppus.  Adding Travis Barker along the way, this talented group proves you can mix adolescent humor with musical abilities and make magic over the long haul.  In the early 90s, the skate punks dressed like preppies, and Tom's guitar was an early sea-green Fender Stratocaster.  Throughout several years and bands, DeLonge has used a few other guitars, most notably a custom-made Gibson, but he has returned to his Fender for this reunion tour.  The latest Fender is customized and, at first glance, looks like a combo of the Gibson and Fender; the sound is still all Tom and his signature tone. 

Crank it up.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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