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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Impact All Stars Java Dub Java Java Java Java Impact/VP 1973 - great early dub LP
Impact All Stars Meet Me Dub Java Java Java Java Impact/VP
Impact All Stars Black Man's Dub Java Java Java Java Impact/VP
Impact All Stars King Babylon Dub Java Java Java Java Impact/VP
Impact All Stars Hid Away Dub Java Java Java Java Impact/VP This concludes side 2 of the record!
The Clash The Guns Of Brixton London Calling Epic 1979
* Moritz Von Oswald Trio Dark Fetch Honest Jon's New. Fusion of techno, jazz, dub... Nice dense slow track right here... Good for a rainy morning.
Mickey Newbury Looks Like My Baby's Gone An American Trilogy Drag City Originally on the Mercury LP "Looks Like Rain" from 1969.
* Rhett Miller Long Long Long The Dreamer Maximum Sunshine new from ex-Old 97s frontman. I dunno. It's OK.
Merle Haggard It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad) The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology (1963-1977) Razor & Tie Recorded exactly 40 years ago today!
* MV & EE Wasteland Space Homestead Woodsist Latest from Vermont duo. They are playing at The Pinhook in Durham on Friday night with Images and Calico Haunts.
The Kingsbury Manx Ol' Mountainsides The Fast Rise and Fall of the South Yep Roc 2005
* Sir Richard Bishop Hump Tulip Intermezzo Ideological Organ new from Sun City Girls founder
Calico Haunts Burial North Circle Borderlord See above re: Pinhook show. More info at http://thepinhook.com/
* The dB's Remember (Falling Off The Sky) Falling Off the Sky Bar/None new dB's - first in a looong while
Margo Guryan Think Of Rain Take A Picture Franklin Castle Her lone album, from 1968.
Margo Guryan Take A Picture Take A Picture Franklin Castle oh what the hell, that was lovely enough to deserve an encore...
* Shawn Lee Tiger Style Synthesizers in Space ESL Super new instrumental album
* Faraj Kadah & Ashraf Abu Leil Afrah Houran (Houran Weddings) (VA) Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran Sham Palace Hyperkinetic Syrian dance music with booming beat and the buzzing double-reed instrument called the mejwiz. Oh yeah!
* Chandeliers New Times Founding Fathers Captcha new - Chicago art-rock vets messing around with vintage synths
The Gun Club Fire Spirit Fire Of Love Ruby 1981. Reissued later on Munster Records.
The Finks Meat Robot More Songs About Robots and Black Things Permaculture Winston-Salem. 2005.
* Kelly Hogan Dusty Groove I Like To Keep Myself In Pain Anti- I like this new Hogan album a lot. Playing locally on Saturday... see below.
Neko Case Star Witness Fox Confessor Brings The Flood Anti- Neko Case with special guest Kelly Hogan, Saturday night in Raleigh, outdoors! http://ncartmuseum.org/calendar/event/2012/07/14/neko_case_with_special_guest_kelly_hogan/2000
The Tender Fruit The Truth Is Flotsam & Krill self-released Beautiful song.
* Hildur Guðnadóttir Prelude Leyfðu Ljósinu Touch New compositions from Icelandic cellist. Leyfðu Ljósinu means "Allow the light..."
* Barış Manço Kağızman Dünden Bugüne Guerssen Turkey, 1971
* Erdem Helvacıoğlu Joy Timeless Waves Sub Rosa Turkey, 2012. Soundscapes meant for multi-dozen-speaker sound installations. http://subrosa.itcmedia.net/en/catalogue/new-series-framework/erdem-helvacand305oglu--timeless-waves.html
The Memphis Goons Slag Skag Teenage BBQ Shangri-La 1969-70. Jackass, Wally, Xavier and Rover. Right on brothers.
The Memphis Goons Oh, Morning Time Teenage BBQ Shangri-La
Mandolin Orange Never Die Hard-Hearted Stranger self-released Tonight at Duke Gardens, rain or shine.