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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, July 9, 2014 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
The Unholy Trio Heaven's Gain Pure Country self-released rec. S. Cack, 2000
The Unholy Trio Lie To You Pure Country self-released Unholy Trio was Morgan Geer (Drunken Prayer), Dave Gay (Freakwater), Lance Wille
* The Backsliders Headlights Raleighwood EP self-released new Backsliders! first from Raleigh dudes in a loooong time
* Lavender Country Gypsy John Lavender Country Paradise of Bachelors 1973. Considered the first openly-gay country record. Reissued by P.o.B.
Tonk Steer Into The Skid Let's Keep It Dark Future Standard recent Raleigh country stuff
Miss Leslie You Were Drunker Than I Was Lucky self-released Houston area, 2013
John Howie Jr. & The Rosewood Bluff A Hell Of A Note Everything Except Goodbye Hands Up! new-ish, local, awesome
Willie Nelson So Much To Do Shotgun Willie Atlantic 1973
Phosphorescent Pick Up The Tempo To Willie Dead Oceans their tribute to and interpretations of Willie Nelson. great album.
* Dredd Foole & Ben Chasny Losing My Mind Drunk With Insignificance Feeding Tube new weird folk psych combo
* Marissa Nadler I've Got Your Name July Sacred Bones Tonight at The Pinhook
* Nightmares On Wax Dextrous N.O.W. Is The Time Warp aka DJ Ease aka George Evelyn (Leeds, UK). New.
* Meridian Brothers El Festival Vallenato Salvadora Robot Soundway new from Colombia; quirky take on Latin traditions
* Lee Fields Just Can't Win Emma Jean Truth & Soul fine new record from NC native. Straight soul!
Lee Fields It Still Gets Me Down Emma Jean Truth & Soul had to play two!
Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators Feeling Free Keep Reachin' Up Timmion 2005 nu-soul
Alice Russell Got The Hunger? Pot of Gold Six Degrees 2009
Massive Attack Spying Glass Protection Virgin 1995
* Curtis Harding Keep On Shining Soul Power Burger new
Le Orme Ritorno Al Nulla Felona E Sorona Philips Italian prog rock, 1973
Acrassicauda Garden of Stones Only The Dead See The End Of The War Vice Iraqi metal band, 2010. Acrassicauda means "black scorpion."
Panopticon …Seeing... Skagos/Panopticon Flenser split doomblackmetal project betw Kentuckians Panopticon and Canadians Skagos. 2013.
SubRosa Whippoorwill No Help For The Mighty Ones Profound Lore experimental doom metal band feat. 3 singers and two electric violins. Salt Lake City, 2011.
* OOIOO Jesso Testa Gamel Thrill Jockey new from Javanese experimentalists
* Tiny Ruins Night Owl Brightly Painted One Flying Nun/Arch Hill New Zealander Hollie Fullbrook. New. Vashti - isn?
* Ama Divers Crawling Out An Echo in the Sound self-released Opening tonight's Pinhook show...
* Gallery Icy Acres The Wind That Shakes The Barley Guerssen Another one from 1973. Yorkshire folk ensemble (Leeds again), featuring the beautiful vocal of Barbara Seabourne. Orig. on Midas Records; recently reissued.
* Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper Saudade Do Santos-o-Velho FRKWYS Vol. 11: Cantos de Lisboa RVNG Intl. latest installment of series in which contemporary artists collaborates with an artist that was one of their major influences