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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette Sing Song Gateway 2 ECM 1978
Pixies Palace Of The Brine Trompe Le Monde Elektra #3 on WXDU's top albums list for 1991
XTC Dear Madam Barnum Nonsuch Geffen #92 on WXDU's top albums list for 1992
* feedtime Dead Crazy The Aberrant Years Sub Pop 1985
* King Tuff Hole In My Head Wild Desire 7" Suicide Squeeze new
Mudhoney The Lucky Ones The Lucky Ones Sub Pop 2008
Tom Waits Satisfied Bad As Me Anti- 2011. (Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHn_Kb4Dz40&ob=av2e)
* Carolina Chocolate Drops Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man? Leaving Eden Nonesuch new!
* Mariel Vandersteel Hickory Hickory self-released Berkelee-educated fiddler who blends Appalachian and Norwegian fiddle sounds. Really good.
Balfa Toujours Le Reel De Nonc Will Deux Voyages Rounder Louisiana, 1996.
Steve Gunn House Of Knowledge Boerum Palace Three Lobed Recordings my favorite recent purchase
Ted Lucas Sonny Boy Blues Ted Lucas OM 1975
* Michael Chapman Thank You PK 1944 Rainmaker Light In the Attic Reissued! Originally 1969. Incredible record.
* Marisa Anderson Heat Lap (VA) God Damn, I Hate the Blues KRAAK Beautifully-packaged set of two 45rpm records with 6 tunes highlighting the more rustic side of this Belgian psych label's output. Marisa Anderson plays lap steel here. She had a good album out on Mississippi Records recently.
Nathan Bowles Alabama Girls (VA) God Damn, I Hate the Blues KRAAK NB plays in Black Twig Pickers
Uncle Tupelo Wait Up March 16-20, 1992 Columbia/Legacy
B. Sam Firk Money Green No. 2 (VA) Fonotone Records, Frederick, Maryland Dust-to-Digital Incredible box set documenting Joe Bussard's home label, 1956-1970
Gillian Welch Winter's Come And Gone Hell Among The Yearlings ALMO Sounds 1998
The Reatards Give It To Me Teenage Hate Goner
* Obnox Home II: Masonic Reducer 12XU
* C.R.A.S.H. A Piece Of The Pie A War On All Fronts 7" Post Present Medium new from L.A.
C.R.A.S.H. Cult Merch A War On All Fronts 7" Post Present Medium
The Reatards Quite All Right Teenage Hate Goner
The Sweetback Sisters It Won't Hurt When I Fall Down From This Barstool Looking For A Fight Signature Sounds Brooklyn swing band
Two Dollar Pistols When It Was Over Here Tomorrow, Gone Today 8th House In tribute to drummer Matt Brown, who passed away recently.
John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff Handful Of Heartaches Leavin' Yesterday Hands Up! In tribute to drummer Matt Brown, who passed away recently.
* White Poppy In The Window I Had A Dream Not Not Fun new from Vancouver. Nice fuzzed guitars, repetitive beats, layered noises, and ethereal vocals.
* Choir of Young Believers Patricia's Thirst Rhine Gold Ghostly International new from Copenhagen
* Hollows Strange Effect Vulture Trouble In Mind new from Chicago
The Paperhead Back To Those Days The Paperhead Trouble In Mind sorta new, from Nashville
John D. Loudermilk Goin' To Hell On A Sled The Open Mind of John D. Loudermilk Omni Recordings Essential compilation of 60s material from Durham-born JDL!
* Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan T.I.T.S. Would Be Proud/Bennie & The Jets The John Tapes Bull City Tapes split cassette tape w/Phil Cook & His Feat
Willie Nelson Can I Sleep In Your Arms Red Headed Stranger Columbia Happy 79th birthday earlier this week to Willie!