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"Rock in Opposition" with Andy B. (archive)

Thursday, August 4, 2011 | 20:00 to 22:00 | Playlist

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Jandek Part 12 Where Do You Go From Here Corwood Industries 66th album by the mysterious Houston native
Bardo Pond JD On the Ellipse ATP One of the bands featured on upcoming Three Lobed boxed set.
* AKA Glenmore Hard Beat Strawberry Rain Indonesian hard rock.
Comets on Fire Jay Bird Avatar Sub Pop Another band featured on Three Lobed boxed set.
* Ed Askew House of Embers Imperfiction Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag City Re-issue of 1984 album by New Haven, CT folk singer.
Willard Benson John Hardy (Laws I2) Art of Field Recording Volume II: 50 Years of Traditional Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum Dust-to-Digital
* Gary Higgins Waiting for You A Dream a While Back Drag City Early '70s recordings re-issued on Drag City.
Peggy Seeger Gonna Be an Engineer American Roots Collection Smithsonian Folkways
* Mickey Newbury She Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye An American Trilogy Drag City From re-issue of 1969 album Looks Like Rain.
Clear Light Mr. Blue Clear Light Sundazed 1967 release by LA scenesters.
* The Ettes You Never Say Wicked Will Krian New album by Nashville trio.
* Ryan Trevor Go Hunting Go Introducing Ryan Trevor Galactic Zoo Disk/Drag City New Zealand.
* The Human Instinct Stoned Guitar Stoned Guitar Sunbeam More New Zealand.
Harmonia 76 By the Riverside Tracks and Traces Ryko Members of Cluster and Neu! in collaboration with Brian Eno.
* Zdenek Liska Mala Marska Vila/Witches Firewall Mala Morska Vila Finders Keepers Soundtrack for 1976 film version of The Little Mermaid.
* Moonface Fast Peter Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped Jagjaguwar Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, etc.
TV Babies Corporate Clock Rock Around the Corporations Rockin' Horse 1982
Men's Recovery Project The Awful People in the Empty City Resist the New Way Vermiform 1999
* Muler Gum Hope You Found a Home Carbon Rochester band from the late 90s gets back together in support of The Grant Fund.
Giant's Chair New Orleans Red and Clear Caulfield 1995 emo.