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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
The Ricketts Action Painting (VA) Maximum Freakbeat: Fuzz! Distortion! and Mayhem! An Essential 60's Compilation Past & Present The Ricketts are "thought to have been German," according to the liner notes (!)
Wimple Winch Save My Soul (VA) Maximum Freakbeat: Fuzz! Distortion! and Mayhem! An Essential 60's Compilation Past & Present from Liverpool
* The Thermals I Don't Believe You Personal Life Kill Rock Stars new
* Superchunk Rope Light Majesty Shredding Merge new
Rod Stewart You Wear It Well Never A Dull Moment Mercury 1972. What a great song, what a great hook!
Black Diamond Heavies Stitched In Sin Every Damn Time Alive heavy rock with just a Rhodes piano and drums. And a nice growly voice.
Havergal Fires In The Attic Lungs For The Race Secretly Canadian 2001
* Wildbbirds & Peacedrums Tiny Holes In This World Rivers Leaf/Control Group new from Swedish husband-wife duo of Andreas Werliin and Mariam Vallentin.
* Hildur Gudnadóttir Earbraces Mount A Touch love this. Icelandic cellist. 2006.
Hog Sightless Hog self-released Local metal; playing tonight @ Nightlight
melaniejane Needle And The Damage Done (VA) More Barn: A Tribute to Neil Young Slothtrop 2008 comp
Devo Beautiful World New Traditionalists Warner Bros. If you have never seen the video for this, check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56u6g0POvo0 . Some pretty gruesome imagery, including World War I fighting, make clear the critical, sarcastic message of the song.
* Tom Darby & Jimmie Tarlton Captain Won't You Let Me Go Home (VA) Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939 Tompkins Square 1929
* Fernand Baër La Marseillaise (VA) Cylinder Recordings, vol. 1 http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu 1908
* Madlib Coltrane Medicine Show Vol. 8: Advanced Jazz Madlib Invazion newest installment in the 12-month, 12-part series from Madlib. LIKE!
Hauschka World Of Things To Touch (Tarwater remix) Versions of the Prepared Piano Karaoke Kalk
Herbie Hancock Wiggle-Waggle Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings Warner Bros. 1970. Orig. on the album Fat Albert Rotunda.
* S. Carey Action All We Grow Jagjaguwar new one from Bon Iver's touring drummer...
* James Blackshaw Part 4 All Is Falling Young God new from the UK. Think Basho, Jansch, etc.
* Amelia Curran The Mistress Hunter, Hunter Six Shooter Out last fall in her native Canada, released this month in the U.S.
* Megafaun Heretofore Heretofore Hometapes new
* Trembling Bells The End Is Beginning Born Knowing Carbeth Honest Jons new from Glasgow
The Reverend Ed Broms Eruption (VA) Everybody Wants Some: A Loose Interpretation of the Musical Genius of Van Halen Cherrydisc Recorded live at the Holy Name Parish Catholic Church, W. Roxbury, MA
* Mavis Staples Don't Knock You Are Not Alone Anti- new
Ada Richards I'm Drunk And Real High (In The Spirit Of God) (VA) Good God! Born Again Funk Numero Group Detroit, ?1970s
Michael Liggins & The Supersouls Loaded To The Gills (VA) Cold Heat: Heavy Funk Rarities, 1968-1974, vol. 1 Now-Again Arizona, 1970
Pig In A Can Talkin' Tupelo Blues Pig In A Can: A New Perspective On The Blues Fedora 2000. Blues w/new remix touches...