Friday Flash(back) - Meg Washington - Gem

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Megan Alexanda Washington or now known professionally as Meg Washington, or formally known as Washington only.

Originally performing jazz music, her style shifted to indie pop and alternative rock. She has released four studio albums, I Believe You Liar (July 2010), There There (September 2014), Batflowers (August 2020), and Hot Fuss (2022). 

Both I Believe You Liar and There There reached the top 5 on the ARIA Albums Chart and Batflowers peaked in the top 25. 

Outside of music, she has become a screenwriter and film producer. She also voices primary school teacher Calypso in the animated series Bluey. So Meg is on the biggest TV show in the actual WORLD!

Meg has won three ARIA Music Awards with two in 2010 for I Believe You Liar, Best Female Artist and Breakthrough Artist – Release. The other win was Best Cover Art for Batflowers in 2020.

In June 2025, Washington released Kidding, the second single from her fifth studio album Gem, which was released a couple of weeks ago. Looking forward to sharing the awesome, new, local release tomorrow with you dear readers.

Album of the Week - KAYTRANADA - {Ain't No Damn Way!}

Friday Flash(back) - The Black Keys - No Rain, No Flowers

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The Black Keys formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001. The duo consists of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) & Patrick Carney (drums). 

The duo began as an independent act, recording music in basements and self-producing their records, before they eventually emerged as one of the most popular garage rock artists during a second wave of the genre's revival in the 2000s. 

The band's raw blues rock sound draws heavily from Auerbach's blues influences, including Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnside, Howlin' Wolf, and Robert Johnson.

Friends since childhood, Auerbach and Carney formed the group after dropping out of college. After signing with indie label Alive, they released their debut album, The Big Come Up in 2002, which earned them a new deal with Fat Possum Records. 

Over the next decade, the Black Keys built an underground fanbase through extensive touring of small clubs, frequent album releases and music festival appearances, and broad licensing of their songs. Their third album, Rubber Factory (2004), received critical acclaim and boosted the band's profile, eventually leading to a record deal with major label Nonesuch Records in 2006. 

After self-producing and recording their first four records in makeshift studios, the duo recorded Attack & Release in 2008, in a professional studio and hired producer Danger Mouse, who subsequently became a frequent collaborator of the group.

The group's commercial breakthrough came in 2010 with the album Brothers, which along with its popular single Tighten Up, won three Grammy Awards. 

Their 2011 follow-up El Camino received critical acclaim and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, leading to the first arena concert tour of the band's career, the El Camino Tour. 

The album and its hit Lonely Boy won another three Grammy Awards. In 2014, they released their eighth album, Turn Blue, their first number-one record in the US, Canada, and Australia.

 After completing the Turn Blue Tour in 2015, the duo took a hiatus for several years to work on side projects and produce other artists. They returned in 2019 with their ninth album, Let's Rock. 

Last week the duo gave us, No Rain, No Flowers, their thirteenth studio album. So before streaming the album in full tomorrow, here and some of their biggest tunes to date!

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - NINAJIRACHI - {I Love My Computer}

Friday Flash(back) - The Ting Tings - Home

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The Ting Tings hail from Salford, Greater Manchester, forming in 2007. 

Consisting of Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drums, bass guitar, cowbells) and Jules De Martino (drums, lead guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, vocals).

The duo's debut studio album, We Started Nothing, was released in 2008 by Columbia Records to positive reviews and commercial success, peaking at number one on the UK Albums Chart and number 78 on the US Billboard 200. 

It spawned four singles, including That's Not My Name, which topped the UK Singles Chart in May 2008 and reached number 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100, & Shut Up and Let Me Go, which earned them a MTV Video Music Award.

They received two Brit Award nominations, including for British Album of the Year and a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2010.

Their second studio album, Sounds from Nowheresville, was released in February 2012, with the lead single Hang It Up released on 16 January 2012. 

Their third studio album, Super Critical, was released in October 2014. 

Their fourth studio album, The Black Light, was released in October 2018. 

And finally, fifth studio album, Home, was released back in June. So ahead of streaming the new record tomorrow, how about a trip down memory lane. It is Throwback Thursday after all!

Fall from the Light - Guests

Album of the Week - Offical Music Videos

Album of the Week - HILLTOP HOODS - {Fall from the Light}

Friday Flash(back) - The Kooks - Never/Know