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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Espers Flaming Telepaths The Weed Tree Locust Music 2005
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid Brain Tongues Domino 2007. former of Four Tet, latter funk drummer dude.
* Odonis Odonis Better Better Buzz new 6 song EP, real good!
* City of Medicine End Of Days EP self-released new durham metal band. WXDU Saturday DJ Kenny (http://www.wxdu.org/plmanager/world/djplaylists.php?id=301) is a member.
* Poor Old Shine Ghosts Who Live Next Door Treadless Soles EP self-released band from rural Connecticut who made/handpainted their album covers out of old cereal boxes procured from UConn dining halls! Right on.
The Proclaimers Sunshine On Leith Sunshine On Leith Chrysalis brothers Reid. Scotland, 1988.
The Jesus And Mary Chain Down On Me Darklands Warner Bros. nuther set of brothers Reid. Scotland, 1987.
* Savages Shut Up Silence Yourself Matador new!
Wire The Art of Stopping Read & Burn Pink Flag 2002
* Mikal Cronin Change MCII Merge rapidly charging into contention for my favorite of the year. or at least the summer. great for rolling down windows and cranking it up!
Liam Finn Second Chance I'll Be Lightning Yep Roc 2008
Small Faces Talk To You Small Faces Immediate 1967
Small Faces Get Yourself Together Small Faces Immediate nuther good one for windows down drivin'
Matthew Sweet Sick of Myself 100% Fun Zoo nuther one! '95
* Assembly of Light Choir Insides Assembly of Light At A Loss Recordings secular choral of >20 women in Providence, R.I. Started as a social gathering and took off from there!
* George Bakas, Sofia Bakoula, Polikseni Litou Geras O Mavros Haido (Poor Me, I'm Getting Old, My Haido) (VA) Beyond Rembetika: The Music and Dance of Epirus JSP 1949
* Klaus Weiss Sounds & Percussion Morning 1 / Morning 2 (VA) Music for Dancefloors: The KPM Music Library Strut comp of music from KPM, the Brit company the brings you music themes for film, ads, TV, etc.
* Vår The World Fell No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers Sacred Bones new from Denmark
* Kraus Dog On the Loose (VA) Realistic Pillow KRAAK new from New Zealand via a Belgian label. drums/guitar/organ/tapeloops.
* Justin Lacy & the Swimming Machine Go! Run! Hide! Run! Overgrown self-released quirky pop weirdness, new from Wilmington
* Courtney Granger You're Still On My Mind (VA) Joel Savoy's Honky Tonk Merry-Go-Round Valcour classic country song. never yet heard a bad version of it.
* Amede Ardoin Les Blues Prison (VA) For The Faithful Tompkins Square from the label's Record Store Day sampler disc. One of the pillars of Cajun music featured here, ?1930s?
M-G-M Studio Orchestra Revolution The Original Soundtrack to Doctor Zhivago MGM
* Steve Gunn Old Strange Time Off Paradise of Bachelors new!
* Nicole Mitchell's Ice Crystal Sunday Afternoon Aquarius Delmark new from Chicago jazz ensemble led by flutist Mitchell