My general creative hiatus is still ongoing, although I'm slowly working on a few art-related things, and am gearing up for a couple of writing projects a little later in the year. One thing the job has meant (besides no longer being dirt-poor) is that I have a lot of time to listen to the radio. Specifically Sirius Satellite radio, which I split between listening to a few talk shows and music channels. I've also been doing some YouTube channels that don't require visuals, mostly true-crime or unsolved mysteries stuff, or Missing 411 related stories (Google it if you're unfamiliar.)

One of the music stations I listen to a lot is AltNation, which plays contemporary alternative rock. Now by no means do I like everything on there. There's always a proportion of crap or 'meh' grade songs. But there's also some gems by new artists, or established artists who are still in the dynamic phase of their careers. I've also discovered some amazing music videos through looking up certain songs on Youtube. So here's some links to songs and videos that I particularly like.

My boys from Muse just released a new CD late last year and have videos for most of the songs. The best ones are this one: https://youtu.be/h2eKImKZviw which features a mash-up of the 80's movies Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and Critters/Gremlins.

And this one: https://youtu.be/e0UWT0dFSQE which has some very interesting computer graphics.

Another song that I heard played a lot that kind of grew on me is this one: https://youtu.be/HhoATZ1Imtw by the group LSD (Labrynth Sia & Diplo). It has an absolutely charming fully animated music video.

The group Weezer had a string of hits in the 90's, and they've come back with a couple new hits, including a cover of Toto's Africa, and this one, Can't Knock the Hustle: https://youtu.be/UV5F3vcQyrY which has a hysterical music video featuring a hapless Uber driver taking some passengers from hell through LA.

I fell in love with VNV Nation's Automatic last year, and he recently released a new CD titled Noire. It has this very interesting video: https://youtu.be/SF5mf4LV7Jw

The last of the videos is from a group called the Wombats, for the song with the delightful title of Lemon to a Knife Fight. The video doesn't feature lemons or a knife fight, but it's still pretty cool (if extremely violent) https://youtu.be/nNh51G84WZY

The last two songs are just lyrics videos, but they're songs I especially like.
Choke: https://youtu.be/mvJjmWTg7Qo
Northern Lights: https://youtu.be/gBdh20C287Y

As an added note, one of these 8 featured songs will be the next music comic I'm doing, another collaboration with  driprat Betcha can't guess which one.