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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Captain Beefheart (all of Side One) Doc At The Radar Station 4 Men With Beards Happy Birthday (yesterday) to Beefheart! 1980 album. Hot Head. Ashtray Heart. A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond. Run Paint Run Run. Sue Egypt. Brickbats.
* Branes Veronica Box Lunch Perfection Condition Burger new but sounds 25 yrs old
* Teledetente 666 Les Rats Les Rats b/w Panne Sexe 7" Sweet Rot lovely warped noisy electropunk, new from Strasbourg, France
* Lamps Clouds Under The Water Under The Ground In The Red new art-punk from L.A. Nice n sloppy on this track anyway!
* Hot Lunch Gold Lyre Hot Lunch Who Can You Trust? New from SF. The promo materials namedrop Ace Frehley. Yeah man.
* Greasy Bear Windy Day (VA) Man Chest Hair B-Music Comp of 1970s "unissued studio demos and rare tracks of hard rock, hairy funk, heavy, prog from the toughest unknown rock groups of Greater Manchester, England MAN CHEST HAIR liberates 17 heroic outbursts of rare and unreleased Northern testosterone." !
Lyres How Do You Know? Lyres, Lyres Munster/Ace of Hearts 1986. FABULOUS album.
Thursday's Children You Can Forget About That Never Ever Land: 83 Texan Nuggets from International Artists Records, 1965-1970 Charly
The Byrds The World Turns Around Her Turn! Turn! Turn! Columbia 1965
* MMOSS Spoiled Sun Only Children Trouble In Mind new and all 60s trippy. Terrific stuff "from the damp and misty woods of New Hampshire" ! Their 2nd album.
* Emmett Murray She's A Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense (VA) Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African-American Traditional Music 1977-1980 Dust-to-Digital Couple tunes from a Georgia-born gentleman who moved to Fla. in the 1930s for work, in the vegetable-producing areas around Lake Okeechobee.
Emmett Murray Mobile Blues (VA) Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African-American Traditional Music 1977-1980 Dust-to-Digital this song gives the set its name...
Precious Bryant Wrenched My Ankle (VA) Expressin' The Blues Music Maker Recordings Here's another Ga. player. Precious Bryant passed away last weekend. R.I.P.
Mattie Delaney Tallahatchie River Blues (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD#13: Mississippi Oxford American 1930. Nice one from last year's edition of this comp.
Bo Diddley Black Soul The Black Gladiator Future Days Recordings 1970, orig. on Checker Records (part of Chess).
* Elements of Peace Together pt. 2 (VA) Eccentric Soul: Omnibus Vol. 1 Numero Group 45 45s for their 45th release! :)
* Anthroprophh Hermit Anthroprophh Rocket little guitar freakout for ya. New from Paul Allen (of The Heads).
* Lace Curtains Adidas Moon The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness Female Fantasy new from Austin, sorta like the slower ballady VU songs
Chromatics The River Kill For Love Italians Do It Better Love this one from last spring...
* Lau Nau Kuoleman Tappajan Kuolema Valohiukkanen Fonal New from Finland. I really enjoy Fonal's output. This us LAUra NAUkkarinan of Kiila and other groups. Song title = "The Death of the Killer of the Death"
Oliver Mtukudzi Ndima Ndapedza The Oliver Mtukudzi Collection Putumayo Zimbabwean legend of many decades, playing at Duke on Friday night. Tomorrow night (Thurs) he'll be at Casbah for a free "listening session," playing and talking about music that's influenced him (7pm).
Olu Dara Your Lips (VA) Oxford American Southern Sampler 1998 Oxford American Mississipian now based in NYC, far as I can tell... Orig. from his album In The World: From Natchez to New York (1998), a mix of blues, jazz, funk and African traditional sounds.
Magic Trick Sunny Ruler of the Night Hardly Art nice one from last summer
The Jesus And Mary Chain Head On Automatic Blanco y Negro 1989
Yo La Tengo Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) Electr-O-Pura Matador 1995. Playing @ Cat's Cradle a week from tonight.
* Stick Insect Cabin IV Circular Scratch Teenbeat new