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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Temples Sun Structures Sun Structures Fat Possum new from the UK
* Horseback Piedmont Apocrypha Piedmont Apocrypha Three Lobed new from here
* Neneh Cherry Weightless Blank Project Smalltown Supersound new
Betty Davis They Say I'm Different Anti Love: The Best of Betty Davis MPC Ltd.
Fred McDowell I Heard Somebody Calling / Amazing Grace Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning Arhoolie recorded in 1965
* Brian Horton Brand New Day Brand New Day self-released tenor sax player from Kinston, NC. New. Jazz with shades of black gospel & New Orleans. Inspired apparently by church hymns & kitchen singing. Cool.
* Bonita Cantrell Wait On The Lord (VA) I Heard The Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel from the Nashboro Label, 1951-1983 Tompkins Square 1964. Excellent new compilation.
Iba One All (Remix) (VA) Music From Saharan Cellphones vol. 2 Sahel Sounds collection of contemporary Afropop …. Title refers to the fact that cellphones are the main platform for music sharing in the region...
* NOMEANSNO Going Nowhere Dance of the Headless Bourgeosie Southern/Wrong new from Vancouver
* Jesus Sons All These Furs Jesus Sons Mock new, from Oakland CA near as i can tell. kinda snarly Nuggets sorta stuff
* The Men Going Down Tomorrow's Hits Sacred Bones new from Brooklyn
* Sultan Bathery Spring of Youth Sultan Bathery Slovenly Recordings new from Vicenza
Sultan Bathery Talk With You Sultan Bathery Slovenly Recordings
Minutemen Maybe Partying Will Help Double Nickels on the Dime SST
The Fall 2 By 4 The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 Castle Music / BBC
* Kassel Jaeger Exposure Scales - Poison Toxic Cosmopolitanism Editions Mego new from Swiss-French student of musique concrete
Melt-Banana Infection Detective Fetch A-Zap recent release from Japanese noise rock band
* Drekka Window 7 (From Wonderland To Braintree On The MTBA) Ekki Gera Fikniefnum Dais new from Bloomington, Indiana audiovisual artist Michael Anderson.
The Undertones Hypnotised The Very Best of The Undertones Rykodisc
Jib Kidder Hypnotize Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Hypnotized Minds Asthmatic Kitty 2011. aka Sean Schuster-Craig. Here, his sound palette is the existing AK catalog, tweaked with turntable manipulations, respatializing effects (echo, reverb, EQ) and splicing.
White Stripes Hypnotize Elephant V2 2003
Hank Snow I Don't Hurt Anymore RCA-Victor 20-5698 RCA-Victor 1954
John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff Goin' Under (All Over Again) Everything Except Goodbye self-released Brand new, out yesterday! CD release show at the Cave on April 12. Live w/ Savannah here on WXDU this weekend. http://www.johnhowiejr.com/blog/14003582
Mickey Newbury Why You Been Gone So Long Heaven Help The Child Elektra 1973. JH Jr. & Rosewood Bluff have a fine cover of this song on the new album.
* Thalia Zedek Band Flathand Six Thrill Jockey new. Cover of a Freakwater song.