Girls Against Boys – In Like Flynn – Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby – Released 30 years ago this week! Jaimie Branch – Baba Louie – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) – [N] – Out Friday. Lewsberg – Angle of Reflection – Out & About – Coming in September. Petbrick – Sleepless Eternal – Singularity 10: Sleepless Eternal Narrow Adventure – Perspective – Narrow Adventure 1981-1983 – Kjehl Johansen of 100 Flowers / Urinals plus two future members of Wednesday Week. E.D.F. – E.D.F. Power – Pierre Barouh & The Saravah Sound – [C] – Originally the b-side of a 1969 single. The Embarrassment – Drive Me To The Park – Heyday 1979-83 – Hope to see you at PhilaMOCA next Wednesday night for the Philadelphia premiere of the Embarrassment documentary sponsored by WPRB! Tickets available here.
Superchunk – Sunny Brixton – Misfits & Mistakes: Singles, B-sides & Strays 2007–2023 – How are this band’s b-sides better than most bands’ a-sides?! 4xLP box coming October 27th. Sidi Touré – Acharia – Afrik Toun Mé The Feelies – Rock & Roll – Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground – Recorded live at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City on October 13th, 2018. Beth McDonald – northside fern corral – the new moon’s out of the way Laddio Bolocko – Nurser – ’97-’99 Rachel Musson – Start – I Went This Way Mesh – CIA Mind Control – S/T – Local.
The Haskells – Taking The City By Storm – 7″ – Taking the City By Storm, The Birth of the Milwaukee Punk Scene is finally screening. Ayaléw Mesfin – Menèw Bèqèrèbegn – Ethiopiques, Vol. 24 – Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music (1969-1975) – [C] Oh Baby & Kelly Stoltz – Not Enough (Extended Mix) – Singularity 11: Not Enough (Extended Mix) Dippers – Kitchen Paralysis – Clastic Rock – [N] – Formerly known as Thigh Master. Alan Silva & The Celestrial Communication Orchestra – Amplitude II – H.CON.RES.57, Volume I Weak Signal – Songworld – WAR&WAR Maple Stave – Cincinnati Hairpiece – Arguments – [N]
Rat-Nip – Schemer – My Pillow 7″ Ben Salisbury – Aubade – Devs (Original Series Soundtrack) – [C] The Krelboynes – Chicxulub Returns – Boyne Again – [N] Ryuichi Sakamoto – Replica – Ongaku Zukan – Originally released in 1984. Out in September. Neil Young – Sample & Hold – Trans branch riordan sexton galipault – 2006.10.13 Live At The Zeitgeist Gallery (Cambridge MA) – Tour CDr The Wedding Present – Living & Learning – Tommy 30
METZ – Good, Not Great – Split Single with Mission of Burma – Mission of Burma cover. Ferkat Al Ard – Matar Naem – Habibi Funk 019: Oghneya Siesta Rates – Kubrick Stare – Thunk Gunk – [C] Moon Drugs – Staring At The Moon – Staring At The Moon Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena – Didn’t See The Comet – West Kensington
Tee Vee Repairmann – Drownin’ – What’s On TV? – [N] De La Soul – Buddy (Native Tongue Decision) – 12″ – Featuring Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah & Monie Love. 75 Dollar Bill – Like Like Laundry – Southeaster b/w Like Like Laundry – Reissue of a 2015 cassette. micro.raygun – home.of.the.brave – pulse.pulse – Naked Raygun cover. Spruce Island – That’s Not The Way I Heard It – That’s Not The Way I Heard It Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah – Al Hadaoui – Habibi Funk 011: Al Hadaoui Just Ducky – New Metro Stomp (live) – Without Warning: Early Montana Punk, Postpunk, New Wave & Hardcore 1979-1991 – [C] – Steve Albini’s high school band.
Sweeping Promises – Ideal No – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N] – So great in Philadelphia last night! Seyoum Gèbrèyès & Alèm-Girma Band – Hamétègnaw – Éthiopiques 24: Golden Years Of Modern Ethiopian Music 1969-1975 – [C] The Fall – I’m Into C.B. – 7″ Tuluum Shimmering – Tamalpais (At About 6) – Tamalpais (At About 6) – David…Crosby…cover? Kenneth Masters x BoFaat – What The Is – A Life Less Ordinary Naomi Hull & Andy Dolan – Fizz Friends – Fizz Friends – Samples the sound of a seltzer can opening. Thousandaire – No Good – Ideal Conditions
Gee Tee – Dudes in the Valley – Atomic EP Al Massrieen – Hatgeni Tani – Habibi Funk 006: Modern Music – Originally released in 1980. New Standards Men – Boney Lunar Dust – Against Our Vanishings – [N] RVG – Midnight Sun – Brain Worms Freddie Hubbard – Povo – Music Is Here: Live at Maison de la Radio, Paris 1973 clipping. – Check the Lock – Visions of Bodies Being Burned The Embarrassment – Careen – Heyday 1979-83 – Thanks to all who came to Montclair last Thursday! WPRB is sponsoring the Philly premiere of the Embarrassment documentary on Wednesday, August 30th and I’ll be introducing the film there too! Come on out!
Mac Krol – Fair Warning – 45 – [N] – Mac from Superchunk and Mike Krol. Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek – Twilight Shimmer – New Future City Radio Mammatus – Expanding Majesty – Expanding Majesty – [N] Fenella – Telekinetoscopes – The Metalic Index – Jane Weaver, Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah. Asnakech Worku – Mech Alkugn Lela Sew – Asnakech EPMD – Da Joint – Back In Business Lifeguard – Alarm – Crowd Can Talk / Dressed In Trenches – [N] – Two EPs combined on one record.
TRVSS – (These Are Not Your) Children – Absence – Now known as MIRAKLER. Mark Sultan – Coffin Nails – Let Me Out Brigid Dawson and The Mother’s Network – The Fool – Ballet of Apes Wrekmeister Harmonies – Behold! The Final Scream – The Alone Rush Yoo Doo Right – Say Less, Do More – A Murmur, Boundless to the East
Upper Wilds – Radio To Forever – Jupiter – [N] Homeboy Sandman – Second Day of Christmas – 12 Days of Christmas and Dia de Los Reyes GHOLD – Exact/Repulse/Suffer – Singularity 05: Exact/Repulse/Suffer The Budos Band – Frontier’s Edge – Frontier’s Edge EP – [N] Gunn-Truscinski Duo with Bill Nace – Fencer – Glass Band – Out Friday. Ahmed Ben Ali – Damek Majeeb – Habibi Funk 022: Subhana – [C] – Collection of mid-2000s recordings. Famous Mammals – Parachute Traction Excites! – Instant Pop Expressionism Now!
Belonging – Stay – S/T – [N] Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X – Afternoon X The Necks – Bloodstream – Travel – [N] Amaria Hamadalher – Tarhanine – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C] Joy On Fire – 3rd Grade Fire – Another Adventure in Red – Local. Shabam – On The Planet Of The Apes – 45 Tommy and the Commies – One Arch Town – Hurtin’ 4 Certain EP
Sgt. Papers – Sobaco Punk – SGTP Nick Millevoi – Midnight Connection – Digital Reaction – [N] Universal Eyes – Strange Attractors – The Golem Rescored – [C] – Members of Slumber Party and Wolf Eyes.
Silkworm – Scrawl – L’Ajre – MJD / DM / JG. 18 years. Charif Megarbane – 3aks el Seir – Habibi Funk 023: Marzipan – [N] Chaosmonaut – Passion Aggression – Passion Aggression The Breeders – Go Man Go – Last Splash (30th Anniversary Edition) – [N] – Previously unreleased. Mars Williams & Vasco Trilla – The Tongue Set Free – CRITICAL MASS Emily – The Sower – Arise Yard Act – The Trench Coat Museum – The Trench Coat Museum – [N]
Baroness – Beneath The Rose – Stone – [N] – Out in September. Daniel Schell & Dick Annegarn – The ff BOOM – Egmont & the ff Boom – Originally released in 1978. “[T]his wholly individualistic concept album combines the lead members of the mighty COS (Daniel Schell and Pascale Son) with studio genius Alain Pierre (Ô Sidarta/Des Morts) and celebrated Dutch progressive rock singer Dick Annegarn, for what many consider to be both the overlooked hiding place of Belgium’s deepest psychedelic moment and European prog’s lost map to the ‘Franco-Flemish Boom’.” Bounaly – Takamba – Music from Saharan WhatsApp – [C] Virginia Wing – Half Mourning – Private LIFE Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake – Planet E – From The River To The Ocean Siavash Amini – Not Yet Plant-Life, No Longer Flesh – Singularity 03: Not Yet Plant-Life, No Longer Flesh – From Tehran, Iran. Sweeping Promises – Throw Of The Dice – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N]
Mac Krol – For Some Other Reason – 7″ – [N] – Mac from Superchunk (happy birthday!) teams up with Mike Krol. Super Onze – FACE A – Hommage à Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) 1992 Sweeping Promises – Egyptian Shumba – ILLUSION OF CHOICE – [C] – The Tammys cover. Martin Frawley – Heart In Hand – The Wannabe – [N] – He of Twerps. Bent Arcana – Psychic Liberation – Live At Zebulon Say Sue Me – Mind Is Light – Mind Is Light – Touring the USA this month. Protomartyr – For Tomorrow – Formal Growth In The Desert – [N]
Cable Ties – Crashing Through – All Her Plans – [N] – Very excited to see this Australian band in September. Rogér Fakhr – Express Line – Habibi Funk 016: Fine Anyway – Recorded in late 1970s Beruit. Sly & The Family Drone – Every Knife In This House Is Mine – Singularity 09: Every Knife In This House Is Mine Bully Pulpit – Fragile Machine – Natural Flavors – First new album in a decade. PJ Harvey – A Noiseless Noise – I Inside The Old Year Dying – [N] Water Damage – Reel 1 – But The Rat Was Very Smart Mekons – Where Were You – Heaven & Hell
Drive Like Jehu – Hand Over Fist – 45 Hot Snakes – This Mystic Decade – Audit In Progress Drive Like Jehu – Luau – Yank Crime Pitchfork – Sinking – 7″ Drive Like Jehu – Sinews (Original Version) – Head Start To Purgatory – [C] Hot Snakes – Six Wave Hold-Down – Jericho Sirens Obits – Refund – 45
Hot Snakes – If Credit’s What Matters I’ll Take Credit – Automatic Midnight Drive Like Jehu – If It Kills You – S/T The Yah Mos Def – Jive Like Jehu – Plays Ugly For Suckers EP – Samples the former. Pitchfork – New Kid – Eucalyptus Hot Snakes – Ben Gurion – Suicide Invoice Obits – Everything Looks Better In the Sun – Moody, Standard and Poor Drive Like Jehu – Do You Compute – Yank Crime
Obits – Pine On / Widow Of My Dreams / Run / One Cross Apiece / SUD / Military Madness (Graham Nash) – Live on WPRB – Recorded for the third-annual WPRB Membership Drive.
The Karl Hendricks Trio – I Think I Forgot Something…My Pants – The Jerks Win Again – Congratulations, Maeve + Dan! Etran de L’AÏr – Toubouk Ine Chihoussay – Live in Seattle Black Duck – Light’s New Measure – S/T – [N] – Doug McCombs, Bill MacKay and Charles Rumback. Alison Cotton – What You Told Me On That Journey In the Horse & Carriage – Singularity 01: What You Told Me On That Journey In the Horse & Carriage Maple Stave – The French Song – Arguments – Out August 1st. Harold & Wayne – The Lung – MISC. TAPE Vol. 01 – Junior, Dinosaur – [C] – Dinosaur Jr. cover. The Dentists – Just Like Oliver Reed (BBC session) – Janice Long session 02.04.87
Drive Like Jehu – Here Come the Rome Plows – Yank Crime
Sweeping Promises – You Shatter – Good Living Is Coming For You – [N] – Album out next Friday. Can’t wait. Altin Lazer Blaster – High Waves – Sounds From the Galactic Skylanes (Original Music from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor) – [C] – a/k/a Altin Gün! X-Ray Spex – Identity – Germfree Adolescents – As heard in the end credits of “Polite Society.” MX-80 Sound- Promise Of Love – Crowd Control Jaimie Branch – Take Over The World – Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) – [N] – Coming in August. Nagat – Eyoun El Alb – Eyoun El Alb – First-ever vinyl pressing of a 1980 Egyptian album. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flamethrower – PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation – [N]
Silicone Prairie – Serpent in the Grass – Vol. II – [N] – Forthcoming. Danny Paul Grody – Path To Olema – Arc Of Day Lewsberg – Communion – Without A Doubt b/w Communion – [N] – Early mixes of two tracks off their next album. Touring the states this fall! Pelican – Ran Amber (Remastered) – The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw – Expanded reissue of a 2005 record. Weird Nightmare – She’s The One – She’s The One – Ramones cover. Matmos – After Mud Guts – Singularity 04: After Mud Guts Heartbeeps – Hold Up – Cum Together
Breaking Circus – Driving The Dynamite Truck – Big Hits of Mid-America Vol. IV – [C] – It’s the longest day of the year / And you dribble into my lap / And it’s still reflected on the source of my good luck / I’m seething in the feeling that I’m driving the dynamite truck Al Massrieen – Sah – Habibi Funk 007: An Eclectic Selection of Music From the Arab World – [C] Pays P. – Olatunji – Ça v aller
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