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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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* Colin Stetson For Those Who Didn't Run For Those Who Didn't Run EP Constellation Bass saxophonist's new EP. Sorry to have missed his show the other night...
Willie Nelson You Look Like The Devil Shotgun Willie Atlantic 1973. Forever a fave.
* John Wesley Coleman III The Howling The Last Donkey Show Goner new
Eula Cooper Heavenly Father (VA) Eccentric Soul: The Tragar and Note Labels Numero Group 2-disc comp in the Eccentric Soul series, this time documenting the work of a pair of Atlanta record labels. 1968 tune.
* Balkan Beat Box Enemy In Economy Give Nat Geo Music their newest
* Baloji Karibu Ya Bintou (DeBruit Remix) Kinshasha Succursale Crammed Discs Congolese-born, Belgian-raised rapper
Jimmy Donley Radio, Jukebox, and TV (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD #13: Mississippi Oxford American 1958 tune. 2011 comp --- great as always!!!
* Alex Chilton Free Again (alt. vocal) Free Again: The "1970" Sessions Omnivore This is what happened with Chilton 'tween teen bubble gum Box Tops days and Big Star.
* Sonic Avenues Fadin' Luv Television Youth Dirtnap powerpop/punk from Montreal
* Gross Ghost Lurker Brer Rabbit Girptapes new, local
* Herzog Shakespearean Actress Cartoon Violence Exit Stencil poppy Who-like new release from Cleveland
The Red Clay Ramblers Literary Giant Old North State self-released The story of Thomas Wolfe in his UNC days...
Sex Pistols Seventeen Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols Warner Bros. 1977
Lucas Boilon Studies of the Oak as Pertaining to Druidic Rites of Passage (VA) Beyond Berkeley Guitar Tompkins Square great comp of modern acoustic Fahey-like guitar stuff
Lungfish In Praise of Amoral Phenomena Pass and Stow Dischord 1994
Elvis Costello This Year's Girl This Year's Model Rykodisc 1978
Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden King Of Swords Bella Neurox Winoca 1999. Miss M on accordion (in a dark way), complimented by Haden's deep violin tones
* Samantha Glass Dakota Shadows Midnight Arrival Not Not Fun new from Madison, Wisconsin. Upbeat but broodish all at once.
Samara Lubelski Taste The Candy Parallel Suns The Social Registry 2007
* Cassis Orange Soon Nieces and Nephews/Cassis Orange split 12" DiggUp Tapes new, local
* Chuck Prophet The Left Hand & The Right Hand Temple Beautiful Yep Roc new -- an album-long ode to his native San Francisco
Hunx Hairdresser Blues Hairdresser Blues Hardly Art from across the Bay in Oakland
The Maybellines Until I Met You Chatfield Holiday Best Friends Denver, 2002.
* Jeff & Jane Hudson G.S. III Flesh Captured Tracks/Dead Hearts NYC synth pop couple, 1980-83.
Magic Dirt Fairy Park Life Was Better EP Au Go Go Au Australia! 1995
* Pins Of Light Sound & Pressure II Alternative Tentacles new spacerock-y tune from San Fran
Apache Dropout Run Peacock Run Apache Dropout Family Vineyard Playing a WXDU-presented show at Casbah on Saturday April 7th
Hurray For The Riff Raff Calmly Young Blood Blues self-released New Orleans group playing this Thurs night at Pinhook in Durham. Self-described as "melodramatic popular song / thrash / blues," and "a sound that has an innovative mixture of Appalachian old time and minor key waltzes, without losing the grittiness of DIY folk." It's a good album (2010) all the way through.
Ahmad Al-Harazi Amsi Sameer Al-Nojoom (VA) Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen Parlortone Fab new comp on the vinyl-only offshoot of Dust-to-Digital. Collected & compiled by Chris Menist.
Morphine Whisper Yes Rykodisc 1995
* Michael James with Andrew Kenower Who'll Stop The Rain Good Morning, Africa Bookmaker ambient rain, synth swoops, claps, booms... Very nice. (not a CCR cover)
Jeff Beck AIR Blower Blow By Blow Epic 1975