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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Joel R.L. Phelps The Nashville Sound Gala 12XU first in a long while from Joel R.L.
Magnolia Electric Co. Leave The City What Comes After The Blues Secretly Canadian "Songs: Molina - A Memorial Electric Co" tonight at Pinhook - Jason Molina tribute
Loamlands Another Reason Some Kind Of Light Trekky Loamlands opens for the Molina tribute tonight
Levon Helm The Girl I Left Behind Dirt Farmer Vanguard 2007
* Peter Walker Fifty Miles Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms? Delmore Recording Society 1970 raga-ish guitar song cycle / requiem for the 60s by T. Leary's musical director
* Mount Eerie No Inside, No Out Pre-Human Ideas P.W. Elverum & Sun album full of "computer-hijacked, pungently auto-tuned re-recordings" of Mount Eerie songs.
6 String Drag Crooked Arrow 6 String Drag Fundamental Nice to see Roby and Keller and co. at the Pour House last Sat. night. Only wish they'd done Crooked Arrow....
* Geist & The Sacred Ensemble On The Next Full Moon Beyond This Vessel Moon Glyph new Seattle sludge. even the tambourine sounds sludgy.
* Night Beats Love Ain't Strange (Everything Else Is) Sonic Bloom The Reverberation Appreciation Society more Seattle but sounding kinda 13th Floor Elevatorish. New.
* Chris Cohen Open Theme (VA) I Need You So Bad Polyvinyl new comp of SF garagy-pop
Ray Price San Antonio Rose The Essential Ray Price Legacy R.I.P. -- my belated tribute
Ray Price Sweet Little Miss Blue Eyes Collector's Choice Harmony
* The Poets of Rhythm Choking On A Piece Of Meat, pt. 2 Anthology 1992-2003 Daptone
* Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings We Get Along Give The People What They Want Daptone new; coming soon to a larger-than-I-wish venue near you
The Coup My Favorite Mutiny Pick A Bigger Weapon Epitaph 2006 feat. Talib Kweli and Black Thought.
Pat Powdrill Do It (VA) Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Ace / Kent comp of hard-to-find singles from ~1962-1972. The term "Northern soul" came from it's origins in Northern England, ironically ... though it was based on black music forms from the USA. It's generally soul music but w/ a faster tempo and prominent beat inherited from Motown. It was also associated with dance crazes of the time that foreshadowed disco and breakdancing.
Johnny Wyatt I Wouldn't Change A Thing About You (VA) Northern Soul's Classiest Rarities Ace / Kent 1963 on this one, 1966 for the previous cut.
* Isaac Rother & The Phantoms My Cryin' Eyes The Unspeakable Horror of ... Isaac Rother & The Phantoms Off The Hip
Morgan Twins TV Hop (VA) That'll Flat Git It! Vol. 1 Bear Family 1st in a great series of discs. This one is subtitled "Rockabilly from the Vaults of RCA Records."
Everly Brothers Problems Dream... The Best of The Everly Brothers Music Club Deluxe R.I.P. Phil Everly
* The New Alchemy Creatures On The Other Side Of Light Subliminal Sounds new from Sweden
* Lorelle Meets the Obsolete 13 Flowers Chambers Captcha new psychedelia from Guadalajara
Tømrerclaus Koda Er Nedtur Tømrerclaus Karma Music aka Danish rock-cellist Claus Clement Pedersen. 1978.
Albert Collins Snowed In Frostbite Alligator 1980. We ain't exactly snowed in, but it's a great cold weather song
* Sadoum Group Hanun (VA) Hassaniya Music from the Western Sahara and Mauritania Sublime Frequencies new comp - fab!
* Shazam Memories (VA) Electroconvulsive Therapy Vol. 1 Medical Records / Crispy Nuggets Medical Records teams up w/ the Crispy Nuggets blog for this comp of 80s synth blasts.
Berliner Strasse Maske (VA) Electroconvulsive Therapy Vol. 1 Medical Records / Crispy Nuggets
Arto Betty Boop (VA) Electroconvulsive Therapy Vol. 1 Medical Records / Crispy Nuggets