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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Freddie Fender Diablo con Antifaz Canciones de mi Barrio Arhoolie "Devil In Disguise". Collection of songs orig. on Ideal Records, San Benito TX, early 60s.
Joe Boot & The Fabulous Winds Rock and Roll Radio (VA) Wild And Wooly: The Northwest Rock Collection Experience Music Project/Sub Pop 1958 tune, 2000 comp
* The Fresh & Onlys Hummingbird House of Spirits Mexican Summer new!
Mikal Cronin Am I Wrong MCII Merge 2013
* Octa Octa Give feat. Raw Moans Cause I Love You 100% Silk deep house from Brooklynnnn ; new
Jackie Mittoo & Willie Williams Version In The Park - Black Roots
Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari Poem / Malorat The Spiritual Roots of Reggae Inner World Ossie's drums!!!!
King Tubby & Yabby You Deliver Dub Deeper Roots: Dub Plates & Rarities 1976-1978 Pressure Sounds really really good collection!
* Rubber Band Moonwalker (VA) Imaginations: Psychedelic Sounds from the Young Blood, Beacon and Mother Labels Guerssen all these labels had something to do w/ a guy named Miki Dallon, a UK producer & musician at the time.
Sperrmüll Right Now Sperrmüll Brain/SPV Germany, 1973.
* Swans Just A Little Boy To Be Kind Young God new!
Madame Hafize & Selim Sta Triya (VA) Don't Trust Your Neighbors: Early Albanian Traditional Songs & Improvisations, 1920s-1930s Hinter orig. on Odeon Records, 1930. "Treshe (In Three) Dance".
Food Pyramid Pacifier Ecstasy & Refreshment Intercoastal Artists Minnesota, 2013. "calls to mind Sky Records’ 1970s kraut-pop output filtered through 1990s DC futurism"
* OFFICER! Go Back Dead Unique Blackest Ever Black 1995 art pop side project of Half Japanese's Mick Hobbs
Baby Huey California Dreamin' The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend Water Recorded in 1970. Released 1971. Dude died of a heart attack at age 26 in 1970 and never got to see or hear his album.
Kelly Hogan Paint White Roses I Like To Keep Myself In Pain ANTI- 2012
* Marisa Anderson Canaan's Land Elizabeth Cotten / Marisa Anderson split 7" KBOO medley of 3 trad. tunes on lap steel - Where The Soul Never Dies, I'll Fly Away, and a song that is either known as "Jesse James" or "Jesus Christ"
* Zoe Muth Waltz of the Wayward Wind World Of Strangers Signature Sounds newest from ZM, excellent Seattle-based singer who makes straight-forward laid-back country tunes
* Lavender Country Waltzing Will Trilogy Lavender Country Paradise of Bachelors This is from 1973, and is considered the first openly gay country record. Patrick Haggerty indicts the mistreatment of gays and proclaims gay pride. The album is preserved in the Country Music Hall of Fame Archives. Thanks to Paradise of Bachelors for getting it out there!
* Jolie Holland Dark Days Wine Dark Sea ANTI- new from Jolie; some cool deep undercurrent to go with her interesting voice...
* Good Throb Crab Walk Fuck Off White Denim/Sabermetric/SuperFi new jittery postpunk snarl from the UK
* Eastlink What A Silly Day (Australia Day) Eastlink In The Red new from Melbourne, Australia
Cosmic Psychos Tell Me That You Love Me Down On The Farm / Cosmic Psychos Goner Australia, 1985
The Psycho Surgeons Wild Weekend (VA) Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock Sound 1976-1987 Shock 1978
The New Christs Like A Curse (VA) Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock Sound 1976-1987 Shock 1984
The Scientists Simple Love (VA) Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock Sound 1976-1987 Shock 1980
* Wesley Wolfe You Complicate Everything Numbskull self-released new, local