...and also from Kimmel, "Can I Call You In The Morning" by @thebeaches.bsky.social

And here are the performances from Jimmy Kimmel Live that got me started on this thread. First is "Straight Line Is A Lie" by @thebeths.bsky.social

...and a Tiny Desk Concert from The Beaches too!

Another banger from The Beaches, "Last Girls At The Party"

(Brief detour: watching that video I can't help but think of the video for "Take It Off" by The Donnas, which also is set in a school auditorium and features the band as three different sets of characters)

From 2018, "Future Me Hates Me" by The Beths. Hey, I said it was music new to me, not new music! "I've counted up the cons, they far outweigh the pros"

The other new (to me) music act is New Zealand's The Beths. Neither this nor The Beaches video I just posted are from this year, but both bands have new albums and both were recently on Kimmel and I'll post a couple more songs later and I think you'll like them both, so there

But reassuring to see RFK Jr running the opposite direction

Oh and how could I forget this Aimee Mann/Ted Leo banger?

"Long Shot" would probably be my #2, you gotta love an album that begins "You fucked it up." But I recently posted about the #1 pick, which I agree with

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

Still Mamdani but he's being assaulted by ICE