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Duke Station
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919-684-2957
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New | Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | ||
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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 |