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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Bratmobile Girl Germs (VA) Kill Rock Stars Kill Rock Stars 1991 comp, all that played at that summer's International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, or that are from Olympia ("the birthplace of rock").
Some Velvet Sidewalk Loch Ness (VA) Kill Rock Stars Kill Rock Stars
Courtney Love Don't Mix The Colors (VA) Kill Rock Stars Kill Rock Stars This is not HER. It's a band named AFTER her.
The Nation of Ulysses N.O.U. Cooking With Gas! (VA) Kill Rock Stars Kill Rock Stars
Unwound You Speak Jealosy (VA) Kill Rock Stars Kill Rock Stars
Mecca Normal Narrow (VA) Kill Rock Stars Kill Rock Stars
Nirvana Beeswax (VA) Kill Rock Stars Kill Rock Stars
* Heavy Cream Prison Shanks Super Treatment Infinity Cat New on JEFF The Brotherhood's label; on tour w/ them. Produced by Ty Segall.
JEFF The Brotherhood Mellow Out We Are The Champions Infinity Cat
* Ty Segall/White Fence (I Can't) Get Around You Hair Drag City new
The Beatles Flying Magical Mystery Tour Apple '67. Played one offa this a few weeks ago but it was still in my bin, and the last tune sounded pretty Beatles-y, so.....
* Free Electric State We'll Have A Great Funeral (When You Die) Monumental Life Custom Made Music new, local
* Boykiller Get Get Get Get self-released new, local
* Chromatics Kill For Love Kill For Love Italians Do It Better new
* Black Dice Pigs Mr. Impossible Ribbon Music new
* Batida Alegria Batida Soundway Electronic dance music from Angola called Kuduro. Sampling, beats, etc.
* Groupe de Jeunes Filles de Bamako Célu Mankan (VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM Dust-To-Digital Amazing new compilation. This and next 3 tracks from disc 1 of 4, which is mostly north Africa. This one's from Mali, late '40s, featuring a (relatively uncommon) female vocal ensemble plus some massive cylindrical dunun drums
Rshisha, Hlima and Cheikh Abdesalam Aishek Baba (VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM Dust-To-Digital 1930, Morocco. "Life To You, Father." Features an upright fiddle called a kamanja.
Mahieddine Mestakhbar Mezmoum (VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM Dust-To-Digital Algeria, 1926. This guy was a famous voice back in the day, involved w/ the Opera of Algiers and performing abroad in Paris etc.
Dalila Rochdi Haragli Guelbi, Pt. 1 (VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM Dust-To-Digital Tunisia, late 1940s. "He Set My Heart On Fire, Mama!" Featuring a Tunisian bagpipe called the mizwad.
* Francis Bebey New Track African Electronic Music 1975-1982 Born Bad untitled track from 1982
* Musette On The Green Tape Drape Me In Velvet Hapana Musette, aka Joel Danell, started with a huge pile of reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, and over three years mistreated them with wrinkling, scratching, warping, recording new sound over old, and god knows what all -- creating sorta layers of sound that sounds not near as bad as you'd think. In fact, I like!
* The Two Man Gentlemen Band Panama City Beach Two At A Time Bean-Tone new but purposely retro
Thursday's Children Air Conditioned Man (VA) Never Ever Land: 83 Texan Nuggets from International Artists Records 1965-1970 Charly A new purchase 'round here. Sweet. 1966 on this.
Karen Dalton Cotton Eyed Joe 1966 Delmore Recording Society 1966 demos. KD at her most relaxed.
Gene Clark For A Spanish Guitar White Light Sundazed 1971
* Bill Callahan Heaven Help The Child Heaven Help The Child 7" Drag City New arrangement of Mickey Newbury's song. Excellent.
* Hurray For The Riff Raff Riley Look Out Mama Born To Win New from New Orleans. Playing @ The Pinhook in Durham on June 3rd.
* Lightships Girasol Electric Cables Domino Lightships is bassist Gerard Love of Teenage Fanclub. New, relaxed, poppy, nice.
* Andre Williams & The Sadies Hey Baby! Night And Day Yep Roc new
Webb Pierce I Ain't Never King Of The Honky-Tonk: From The Original Decca Masters, 1952-1959 Country Music Foundation 1959. Written by Webb and Mel Tillis. Strangely R&B, not honky tonk, but real fine!
* Birthmark Pacifist Manifesto Antibodies Polyvinyl moody electro-chamber-pop with pizzicato and strings and chopped-apart-resequenced bits.
* Wendy Rene Reap What You Sow After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964- 65 Light in the Attic WOW!
Bettye Swann Ain't That Peculiar Bettye Swann Honest Jons c. 1968-70
* The Lumpen Free Bobby Now Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power, 1967-1974 Light in the Attic 1970
* Death Grips I've Seen Footage The Money Store Epic new experimental hip-hop from Sacramento - not your average samples here.
The Magnetic Fields All My Little Words 69 Love Songs Merge 1999