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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
White Hills I Write A Thousand Letters (Pulp On Bone) Frying On This Rock Thrill Jockey (space)rockin' ya up to 7o'clock...
Curtis Mayfield Love Me Love Me Now Love, Peace, Understanding Sequel
The Undertones Family Entertainment Best of The Undertones Rykodisc (orig. on their s/t debut, ~'79-'80
The Fleshtones Bigger & Better Beachhead Yep Roc 2005
The Flesh Eaters Divine Horseman A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die Ruby/Slash 1981!
* Turbo Fruits Catch & Release Butter Serpents and Snakes new
* TKTTSM I Wanted To TKTTSM self-released new pop stuff from Brooklyn.
* L'Altra Dark Corners II Telepathic Saint Marie
Bill Boyd Mama Don't Like No Music (VA) Stompin' Singers and Western Swingers: More from the Golden Years of Western Swing Proper 1934
* Rafe and Clelia Stefanini Shove The Pigsfoot A Little Further Into The Fire Lady on the Green: Old Time Tunes & Songs self-released New from Italian-ex-pat Dad and his 20-something daughter. Killer twin fiddles. Recorded in Eunice, Louisiana.
* The Honey Dewdrops No More Trouble Silver Lining self-released Husband-wife duo (Kagey Parrish & Laura Wortman) from Catawba, VA
Widow The Burning Ones Life's Blood Pure Steel Raleigh 80's-ish metal, 2012.
* The Church of Zann Signals I self-released local metal feat. XDU DJ Kenny on bass (cut cut cut cut cut cut)
* Stian Westerhus Like Passing Rain Through 9 Lives The Matriarch and the Wrong Kind of Flowers Rune Grammafon new from Norwegian experimental guitarist
* A Tribe Called Red Electric PowWow Drum A Tribe Called Red self-released WOW! Three First Nations DJs from Ottawa mix native drumming and chants with electronoises. (First Nations are the native tribes of Canada that were there before Europeans...)
Guided By Voices Marchers In Orange Fast Japanese Spin Cycle Engine 1994
feedtime Sad, Lonely and Blue The Aberrant Years Sub Pop Originally on the 1988 album "Cooper S." Cover of 1965 tune by The Easybeats.
French Kicks 1985 One Time Bells Startime Kinks-ish. 2002.
The Easybeats Friday On My Mind 7" single United Artists 1966. Feat. George Young on guitar, older brother of Angus & Malcolm of AC/DC (!)
* Astro Coco Astro Nacional New electo-rock from Chile
* The Music Tapes S' Alive To Be Known (May We Starve) Mary's Voice Merge new
* Carol Kleyn Prayer Takin' The Time Drag City 1980 Calif. psych-pop, now reissued. Ocean noises. Harp. Cue Joni Mitchell, please.
* Eleven Twenty-Nine Anchors Away In The Sunlight b/w Anchors Away 7" Drawing Room Betsy Nichols, vox. Marc Orleans, steel/dobro.
Jean Shepard He Loved Me Once And He'll Love Me Again Star Of The Grand Ole Opry Cow Girl Boy 50s
Marty Robbins A Hundred And Sixty Acres Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs Columbia/Legacy Happy Bday Marty Robbins. His classic 1959 concept album...
Meat Puppets Big Iron . . Live cover of Marty Robbins. 1994.
* Double Negative Drone Virus Hits Sorry State Playing @ Kings on Sunday night 9/30
* The Guns Locked Inside The Guns Smog Veil Early 80s hardcore from Cleveland.
The Guns Close Up The Guns Smog Veil ditto
* Arizona Dranes Lamb's Blood Has Washed Me Clean He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes Tompkins Square c. 1926-28. "Spirit-filled piano attacker" from Texas.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Rock Me Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order, vol. 1: 1938-1941 Document Sister Rosetta saw Arizona Dranes play when she was 11 years old, in her church. She credits Ms. Dranes for her syncopated guitar-playing style.
* Saguache Lattice Borealis Terrain Constellation Tatsu drones 'n' water noises 'n' chimes 'n' cymbals 'n' stuff.