Friday Five was a column that highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

"Coda" is the Italian word for "tail," as in the end of something: a comet, a dog, a piece of music.

This is the coda for Friday Five, a column started on September 11, 2020, when the world was shut down. It was a way to keep content flowing on Pulp, a website that focuses on local events and creators, at a time when most of those things were shut down or kept behind doors.

Not music, though.

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features minimalist techno by price, pop tunes by Larkn, hip-hop grunge by Prospecter, electronica by JDSY, and folk-pop by Brad Phillips.

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features hip-hop by 3Steez and 14KT, grimy rap-tronica by Gvmmy, art pop by My Salamander, experimental percussion and spoken word by Jake A. Ellzey and VIRID, and speedy punk by Reckless Manner.

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features guitar jazz by Randy Napoleon, concept-based ambient by Othercast, trip-hop by VaporDaze, alt-indie rock by ckdndcrckd, and drum 'n' bass by NT1AE.

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features orchestral indie by Racing Mount Pleasant, soulful indie by TV Blackout, EDM-influenced drum 'n' bass by Fading Sun, improv noise by Horse Bomb, and lo-fi techno by racer-nelson.exe

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition focuses entirely on Ann Arbor's own Scott Morgan, a truly local singer and guitarist who made waves in rock 'n’ roll culture worldwide over the past 50 years.

The Ann Arbor District Library recently made public the "Scott Morgan Collection," a large assemblage of documents related to his music career. The cache of interviews, newspaper clippings, gig flyers, photographs, and recordings provides a window into Morgan’s experiences in the music industry and the era that shaped him.

Born and raised on the shady streets of A2, Morgan’s career began as front man for The Rationals, a teenage garage-rock combo formed in 1964. In a scene that lionized idiosyncratic voices, Morgan stood out as one of the strongest singers of his cohort. He had the confidence of an old-school crooner, the rawness of a hopped-up garage rocker, and the soulful swagger of an R&B frontman.

A true lifer, Morgan spent decades on stages across the country and abroad, releasing dozens of great records with an impressive lineup of collaborators and bands. He sang on a big national hit during the mid-'60s, played guitar on the greatest Detroit rock song of all time, and served as elder statesman to a new generation of musicians as the century turned.

Let’s take a brief, completely subjective look at Scott Morgan’s best recordings.

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features jazzy pop by Dani Darling, classical-jazz minatures by Timothy McAllister and Liz Ames, modern jazz by Brynn Hilliker, indie pop by Skinned Knees and the Band Aids, and trance techno by Aventar.

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features music-hall-pop-psychedelic-jazz by Tinn Parrow & Company / Laurence Bond Miller, synthesizer music by Fred Thomas, alien electronica by The Evil Doings of an Intergalactic Skeleton, avant-R&B by Keif Skye, and ukulele-led pop by Mother Mushroom.

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This all-electronic-music edition features sounds from Pastland, Stunna + Calculon, The Waffle Tower, evbp/Owasurenaku, and CrispySafe. 

Friday Five highlights music by Washtenaw County-associated artists and labels.

This edition features big-voiced indie rock by Petalwave, jazz vocals by Allan Harris, modular synths by The Chillennial, guitar explorations by Confusion Reactor / re:fusion cc:ontractor, and punk by Reckless Manner.