New Stuff from Sweet Spirit, Adam B Schlett, and Lost Boy ?

Sabrina Ellis of Sweet Spirit

New Stuff Every Day

I hear new music every day. Yesterday, I gave you a playlist of some of the things that have been filling up the CoolDad Music inbox. Today, I've got some new things from some people we've posted about often here at the site.

Sweet Spirit, "Los Lonely Girls"

Austin's Sweet Spirit feature the songwriting team of Sabrina Ellis and Andrew Cashen of A Giant Dog. Where A Giant Dog are glam punk, Sweet Spirit are more soulful power pop. The band will be releasing a new single tomorrow; and, today, they gave us a video for the song.

DIY'd together by Ellis, the video features lots of Sweet Spirit band members and friends dancing and generally getting their groove on. The song has sort of a 50s or 60s pop vibe, and the video is a perfect accompaniment.

Oh, also, the video is sideways. I guess just lie down on your side while you watch it or something.

Adam B Schlett, "Eat Your Heart Out"

It's always a cool thing to watch artists evolve. Adam B Schlett used to front the hard riffing Deaf Rhino. For solo track "Eat Your Heart Out," Schlett worked with former Maxwell's Tavern sound man, Greg Sgar. The song is a departure from Schlett's previous work, going in a more ambient direction than his stuff with Deaf Rhino. The song still features some hard rocking, but the overall feel -- aided by some synths and vocal effects -- is totally different.

Schlett says he has some other songs in the works, and it will be interesting to see where he takes his sound from here.

Lost Boy ?, "Ted's Permission"

Davey Jones of Lost Boy ? is one of those people who can't stop creating. He makes new songs all the time and just releases them, without much fanfare, to the world. His latest creation is "Ted's Permission." Jones works in lots of different genres -- garage rock, pop, post punk -- and "Ted's Permission" is a foray into kind of anti-folk.

Lost Boy ? also likes to work with characters and personality, changing from project to project or song to song. Lost Boy ?'s last LP, Goose Wazoo, features the high strung, frantic version of Lost Boy ?; while "Ted's Permission" is told by a deep voiced, slower-moving Lost Boy ?

Just about everything Lost Boy ? does works for me. There's a new record coming soon, and I can hardly wait.