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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 09:00 to 11:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Guy Clark Texas - 1947 Old No. 1 4 Men With Beards 1975. Nice vinyl reissue!
Amir Elsaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh Facet Two Radif Suite Pi Recordings 2010
* Cory Wright Outfit Freddie Awaits The Sleepers Apples + Oranges Singlespeed Music Bay Area free-bop
* Peter Epstein Quartet Polarity Polarities Songlines new free-ish jazz, not 'zactly sure where from. Supported by some grant money from U. Nevada Reno
* Jeff Cosgrove/Matthew Shipp/William Parker Alternating Current (for Andrew Cyrille) Alternating Current Grizzley Music new; rec. at Klavierhaus in NYC last November
* Grateful Dead/John Oswald Dark Matter Problem / Every Leaf Is Turning Grayfolded Important Plunderphonics guy collaging bits of Dead shows together. Interesting!
Savages She Will Silence Yourself Matador 2013
* Dub Thompson No Time 9 Songs Dead Oceans new from So. Cal. At Pinhook in July.
Magik Markers Acts of Desperation Surrender To The Fantasy Drag City 2013
* The Fresh & Onlys Animal of One House of Spirits Mexican Summer new
* Ought Pleasant Heart More Than Any Other Day Constellation new. Gang of Four-ish, for sure. At Pinhook along w/ Dub Thompson (above) next month.
Gang of Four We Live As We Dream, Alone Songs Of The Free Infinite Zero Archive / Warner Bros. 1982. Their third album.
Gang of Four What We All Want Solid Gold Infinite Zero Archive / Warner Bros. 1981. Their second...
The Meat Purveyors Can't You Hear Me Callin' More Songs About Buildings And Cows Bloodshot 1999. Bill Monroe cover.
* Wovenhand Field of Hedon Refractory Obdurate Deathwish 16 Horsepower guy, hardened up a lot here
* Soft Pink Truth Black Metal Why Do the Heathen Rage? Thrill Jockey awesome synthy versions ("electronic profanations") of black metal tunes
Mammatus Dragon Of The Deep, Part One Mammatus Holy Mountain 2006.
Ride Dreams Burn Down OX4_ The Best of Ride The First Time Oxford, UK early 90s
* Amen Dunes Lilac In Hand Love Sacred Bones new
The Black Hollies Number Ten Girl Softly Towards The Light Ernest Jenning 2009
* The People's Temple Handsome Nick Musical Garden HoZac new from Michigan
* Mystic Braves Born Without A Heart Desert Island Lollipop new from L.A.
* The Black Angels The Flop Clear Lake Forest Blue Horizon new from Austin, rounding out a quartet of new or new-ish records channeling 1968.
* Swans Screen Shot To Be Kind Young God new