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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
The Jesus and Mary Chain Side Two Psychocandy Reprise
* Tom Lecky Her Unmediated Eyes (VA) Imaginational Anthem, vol. 5 Tompkins Square Latest in Tompkins Square's series of acoustic guitar comps... this vol. and the previous featuring only contemporary players
Alexi Murdoch The Light (Her Hands Were Leaves) Towards The Sun Zero Summer 2011
* Wooden Wand No Debts Blood Oaths of the New Blues Fire new
* Psychic Ills Might Take A While One Track Mind Sacred Bones new! Playing at Duke Coffeehouse Friday night Feb 15th!
* Föllakzoid Trees (VA) Todo Muere vol. 2 Sacred Bones from the latest Sacred Bones Record Day sampler comp
* Endless Boogie Occult Banker Long Island No Quarter new! Waiting for mine to come in the mail!
* The Limiñanas Mobylette La Fille de la ligne 15 b/w Mobylette Trouble In Mind new French garagyness, kinda Nuggets throwback. Lovely purple 7"!
* El Perro Del Mar Dark Night Pale Fire The Control Group new from Sweden
* Padna Shoeg. Burnt Offerings Preservation new from Brooklyn - acoustic guitar, sampling, synth
io Sobre Mineras No. 6 Flamenco Abstractions Elegua io is David Font, who deconstructs trad. music (flamenco in this case) and fuses it w/ electronic experimentation. cool.
Judy Woodall's Muletrain The One I Love Is Gone Black Pony self-released Bill Monroe tune. Cool spontaneous wind-in-window sounds happened during the recording... sounds a bit like a musical saw! Beautiful rendition of the song.
Chris Smither Mail Order Mystics Don't Drag It On Tomato 1971
* John Randolph Marr Hello L.A., Bye-Bye Birmingham (VA) Country Funk 1969-1975 Light In The Attic sweeeet new comp
Bobby Charles Street People (VA) Country Funk 1969-1975 Light In The Attic This one's from 1972. J. R. Marr's tune was 1970.
Sandra Rhodes Where's Your Love Been? (VA) Country Got Soul vol. 1 Casual Similar comp to the Country Funk one... LUUUV it!
Wayne Carson Soul Deep (VA) Country Got Soul vol. 2 Casual oh yes, there IS a vol. 2!
Nick Lowe I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass The Jesus of Cool Radar 1978
Elvis Costello (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea This Year's Model Rykodisc 1978
* Airstrip Hit A Wall Willing Holidays for Quince new, local
* Parquet Courts Yonder Is Closer To The Heart Light Up Gold What's Your Rupture? new from Queens
* Cheap Time Other Stories Other Stories b/w In This World 7" Sweet Rot new from Nashville
* Bed Wettin' Bad Boys Devotion Ready For Boredom R.I.P. Society new from Sydney
* Double Negative Drone Virus Hardcore Confusion Vols 1-4 Sorry State new collection of 7" 's from Raleigh
* Rough Kids No Taste The State I'm In Sorry State new from L.A.
* Unknown Mortal Orchestra No Need For A Leader II Jagjaguwar Portland/NZ band is back! New!
* Mind Over Mirrors Mound Building Check Your Swing Hands In The Dark Washington state/Brooklyn this time. Also new.
* Georgia Crackers Diamond Joe (VA) Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard: Hard Time, Good Time & End Time Music 1923-1936 Tompkins Square excellent comp of old music, new. All old 78s from the collection of the late collector Don Wahle of Louisville, KY. The records *almost* went to the dump! Thankfully somebody got smart. Many tracks here issued for the first time since they were out on 78. Not this one though, from 1927.
* Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band Under The Chicken Tree (VA) Cluck Old Hen: A Barnyard Serenade 1926 - 1940 Old Hat Also 1927.
Georgia Jokers Rome Georgia Bound (VA) Fonotone Records, Frederick Maryland Dust-To-Digital