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"Big Carnivorous Feast" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Playlist
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Omar Souleyman Alkhatiba Zaffouha Highway to Hassake: Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria Sublime Frequencies #15 on WXDUs top 100 list for 2007. Very fine!
* The Funk Ark Diaspora From The Rooftops ESL
* Eligh + Amplive Destination Unknown Therapy At 3 Legendary new west coast hip hop with a glitchy electronica flavor. Feat. also Zumbi & The Grouch
The Roots (feat. Monsters of Folk) Dear God 2.0 How I Got Over Def Jam 2010
Phosphorescent The Mermaid Parade Here's To Taking It Easy Dead Oceans 2010
* Pieta Brown I Want It Back Mercury Red House new
Bo Diddley Heart-O-Matic Love (VA) Oxford American Southern Music CD #13 - Mississippi Oxford American OA's 2011 comp. Awesome as usual! This tune 1955.
Black Tusk Way Of Horse & Bow Taste The Sin Relapse Black Tusk headlines the 2nd Annual Bull City Metal Fest, at Casbah Feb 3rd and 4th, sponsored by WXDU! http://www.wxdu.org/node/656
The Body Untitled Anthology Corleone Black Tusk is coming up from Savannah GA, The Body is coming down from Providence, RI ... Lotsa local bands too!
Squirrel Nut Zippers The Interlocutor Hot! Mammoth 1996
Frank Fairfield Out On The Open West Out On The Open West Tompkins Square Playing at Haw River Ballroom this Friday night with Cass McCombs. http://www.hawriverballroom.com/
* The Wilders Riding On Your High Horse The Wilders Free Dirt new from KC
* Ghost To Falco Comfort Series #1 Exotic Believers Infinite Front new from Portland OR
Michael Nace & The Nace Family Good Lord, Maketh Me Poor The Good Work Of The Dead Ionik 2006
Ivy Smith Sad And Blue (VA) Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me! - Female Blues Singers, Rarities 1923-1930 Sub Rosa
* Maria Minerva Luvcool Cabaret Cixous Not Not Fun New from Estonia
* Hamid Shabkhiz Asheghi Doroughe (VA) Rangarang: Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Pop Vampi Soul
* Kourosh Yaghmaei Khaar Back From The Brink: Pre-Revolution Iran, 1973-1979 Now-Again Title means "thistle." The song compares a human to a tiny, worthless, lonely thistle in a huge desert. http://yaghmaeimusic.persiangig.com/image/Kourosh/kourosh_Yaghmaei.jpg
* Psychic Ills Incense Head Hazed Dream Sacred Bones new from Brooklyn
* Rangers John Is The Last Of A Dying Breed Pan Am Stories Not Not Fun new from San Fran
Foxymorons Are You Tired? Hesitation Eyes Heatstroke Texas, 2005
* Donovan Quinn Shadow On The Stone Honky Tonk Medusa Northern-Spy also new from San Fran
* Odonis Odonis Ledged Up Hollandaze Fat Cat new from Toronto
Josh Rouse Middle School Frown Nashville Rykodisc 2004
Terenchem Jeritan Cinta (VA) Those Shocking, Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk, 1970-78 Now-Again
Scritti Politti No Fine Lines White Bread, Black Beer Nonesuch 2006
* Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason Simulacra I Solaris Bedroom Community new collaboration betw. Australian Frost & Icelander Bjarnason. "Re-imagined" soundtrack music for the '72 film "Solaris," adapted from the novel by Stanislaw Lem.