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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Manateees Cat Food Cat Food b/w Treehouse 7" Goner Memphis. From earlier this year.
* Los Microwaves Coast To Coast Life After Breakfast Dark Entries San Francisco. 1981.
* Ghost Wave Here She Comes Ages Flying Nun new from New Zealand
* Dead Ghosts I Sleep Alone I Sleep Alone b/w Spot A Trend 7" Randy new from Vancouver
* Ty Segall The Man Man Sleeper Drag City Back to San Fran for another new one.
* Verma Cassiterite Coltan Trouble In Mind new from Chicago
* Califone Moses Stitches Dead Oceans also new from Chicago
* Mario Andreoni, Nic Offer, Tyler Pope, Allan Wilson, Daniel Gorman, Chris Woodhouse Colorz (Part 1) (VA) Double Mono Aagoo new comp -- distinct mono tracks in your L ear and R ear
* Mountains Nest Mountains Mountains Mountains Thrill Jockey Originally released in 2008 with small distribution, now picked up anew by Thrill Jockey. They had a great album out earlier this year called Centralia.
Chocquibtown Rumba Sin Pelea Oro Nacional mixers of funk, trad, and electronic sounds, de Colombia! 2010.
* L'Orchestre National de Mauritanie Oumletna ("La Mone") L'Orchestre National de Mauritanie Sahel Sounds New CD documenting the 1973 recordings of this West African ensemble.
Little Esther Hold Me Early Hits 1952-1954 JSP January, 1952
Edwin Starr Easin' In (VA) Can You Dig It? The Music and Politics of Black Action Films, 1968-75 Soul Jazz from the 1973 film Hell Up In Harlem
* Cardboard Card Cardboard EP self-released new from Brooklyn, nice lo-fi jangle fuzz
* Lazy Bring It Up Obsession Moniker "Knuckle-dragging Kansas City party punks drunk on Devo and Spizz's nerdo new wave spasms" (!)
* Vacation Club Forest Babe Daydream b/w Forest Babe 7" Randy new from Indianapolis
Southern Culture on the Skids Monkey See, Monkey Do Cosmopolitan (bonus tracks) Yep Roc 2007. Cover of Sham & The Pharaohs
* Uh Bones Only You Only You 7" Randy new from Chicago
* The Ar-Kaics She Does Those Things To Me She Does Those Things To Me b/w I Don't Need Your Love 7" Speakertree new from Richmond VA
The Paperhead Evergreen Tangerine The Paperhead Trouble In Mind Nashville, 2011
* Bobby Whitlock The Scenery Has Slowly Changed Bobby Whitlock Future Days Memphis, 1972
Chris Bell You And Your Sister I Am The Cosmos Rykodisc alternate version on the CD reissue, allegedly the "country" version
The Owls Air Our Hopes And Dreams Magic Marker 2004 beauty pop
* Run The Jewels Run The Jewels Run The Jewels Fool's Gold Killer Mike and El-P
* M1, Brian Jackson, and The New Midnight Losin' Our Minds feat. Gregory Porter Evolutionary Mind Motema medley of jazz, neo-soul, hip hop with nods to Gil Scott-Heron
Herbie Hancock Sly Headhunters Columbia released almost 40 years ago... October 1973.
* Promised Land Sound For His Soul Promised Land Sound Paradise of Bachelors new from Nashville
Gram Parsons That's All It Took GP Reprise 1973
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton Tomorrow Is Forever The Essential Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton RCA 1970