Pitchblende – Lacquer Box – 45 – RIP Justin Chearno. Vincent Ahehehinnou – Ou C’est Lui Ou C’est Moi – African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo ’70s – [C] Turing Machine – (Got My) Rock Pants On – A New Machine for Living – RIP Justin Chearno. Wandering Summer – Wake The Silver Dancing Waves – Under The Bridge 2 – [C] – From Leeds. Tape Hiss – Tom Violence – Live At The Sultan Room – [N] – Sonic Youth cover by members of The Modern Lovers, SY, and Arthur Russell’s ensembles. (Plus my friend Dave from college and this guy Pete.) Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel – Touareg Spaceship – Touareg Spaceship – “[A] groundbreaking collaboration between Nigerien synth pioneer Mamman Sani and Berlin-based electronic artist Tropikal Camel.”Album out in September. The Effigies – Sortie – “Sortie” b/w “Smile!” – [N]
Pitchblende – Nine Volt – Au Jus – RIP Justin Chearno. Nana Budjei – Asobrachie – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In the Diaspora (1980-93) – [C] – [N] Turing Machine – Bleach It Black – Zwei – RIP Justin Chearno. Rattle – Signal – Sequence Tuluum Shimmering – Waves of Willow – Lotus Blossoms Blooming in Four Directions – [N] Ahmed Malek – La La La – Habibi Funk 027: Ahmed Malek – Musique Originale De Films (Volume 2) – 1970s / 1980s Algerian soundtrack scores. MEMORIALS – Lamplighter – Memorial Waterslides – [N] – The debut proper album from the duo consisting of Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire).
CLASS – First To Finish Last – Total Punk – “Order Of The Dirty Plates” Singles Club 2024 – [N] Rosali – May It Be on Offer – Bite Down Water Damage – Union Pool 061324 – Union Pool 061324 George Darko – Kaakyire Nua – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In the Diaspora (1980-93 – [C] Porridge Radio – Sick Of The Blues – Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me Acanthus – Isolde / Who Are You? – Le Frisson Des Vampires Chimers – 3AM – Through Today – [N] – Out in October.
SUMAC – World of Light – The Healer – [N] Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra – Future Shaman – Lightning Dreamers St. Christopher – Burnout ’23 – Under The Bridge 2 – [C] The Comet Is Coming – LUCID DREAMER – Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Scrawl – Clock Song – Nature Film Gang of Four – Anthrax – Entertainment! The Breeders – Off You – Title TK Dianogah – At the Mercy of the Mustang – Battle Champions Mekons – Where Were You? – 45 Shannon Lay – Blue – Blue Silkworm – Our Secret – 45 – Comsat Angels song.
The Chills – Look for the Good in Others and They’ll See the Good in You – Brave Words – RIP Martin Phillipps. Joel R.L. Phelps & The Downer Trio – Pink Frost – Tradition – Chills cover. The Chills – Party In My Heart – Human Music – [C] The Chills – Rolling Moon – The BBC Sessions – 12/11/1985 Peel Session. Superchunk – Night of Chill Blue – Incidental Music: 1991-1995 – Chills cover. The Chills – House with a Hundred Rooms – House with a Hundred Rooms 12″ The Chills – The Oncoming Day – Submarine Bells
Noun – Consumed – Wanted/Consumed – [N] The Necks – Imprinting – Travel Ty Segall – Fanny Dog – Freedom’s Goblin Bill Orcutt – Anxiety of Symmetry II – The Anxiety of Symmetry Alan Sparhawk – Can U Hear – White Roses, My God – [C] Dis- Archivist of Smoke – The Historically Troubled Third Album
CLAMM – The Pressure – Disembodiment EP – [N] Starlite – Anoma Koro – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In the Diaspora (1980-93) – [C] Bob Newhart – Bus Drivers School – The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! – Originally released in 1960. RIP. This short documentary about Newhart’s friendship with Don Rickles is terrific. L’infonie – Mantra (in C) – Vol 33 – Mantra – Montreal free form jazz collective. Adapted from Terry Riley’s (In C). Thanks to Dave The Obscure for introducing me to this one! Silver Scrolls – Indoor Cat – Mind Lines – [N] – Dave Brylawski of Polvo / Black Taj plus Brian Quast from Polvo / Vanilla Trainwreck. Derek Monypenny – Learned Helplessness – Live at the Annex 10-24-23 Beatrix – Pumpkin – S/T – [N]
Oneida – Reason to Hide – Expensive Air – [N] KMD – Boy Who Cried Wolf – Mr. Hood Sassyhiya – Kristen Stewart – Kristen Stewart – [N] – Out Friday! Paul K. & The Weathermen – The Grid – The Blue Sun The Fall – The Man Whose Head Expanded – In: Palace of Swords Reversed – 1983 single. Bob Newhart – Defusing a Bomb – Something Like This… The Bob Newhart Anthology – Originally released in 1962. RIP. The Lemonheads – Glad I Don’t Know – Lick
Tre Orsi – The Engineer – Casual Victim Pile – [C] Machine – Trails – S/T – First came out in 1972. Suzanne Ciani – The First Wave – Birth of Venus – Seven Waves
Silkworm – Slave Wages – Lifestyle – Somehow it has been 19 years since Michael Dahlquist, Doug Meis and John Glick were taken from us. RIP. Kwasi Afari Minta – Barima Nsu – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In the Diaspora (1980-93) – [C] – [N] Weak Signal – Chill – Fine – Out in September. Immersion Scriber – 050 – 050 – Local. Samples “Ginger Baker & Tony Allen Drum Solo (Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival – 1978),” much to my delight. Kim Deal – Coast – Coast – [N] – Solo single. Horns courtesy Mucca Pazza. BASIC – Nerve Time – This Is BASIC – Chris Forsyth, Nick Millevoi & Mikel Patrick Avery. One complaint: Album closer should be titled “Goto 10.” The Replacements – Hold My Life (Ed Stasium Mix) – Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) – Re-mix / re-master of a 1985 album.
Delivery – Digging The Hole – Digging The Hole – [N] Amy Annelle – Pull Tabs and Broken Glass – The Toll – Featuring Jolie Holland. Tuluum Shimmering – I Can’t Stand The Rain – I Can’t Stand the Rain / Will o’ the Wisp – Ann Peebles, reimagined. Advance Base – Kittypants – .mp3 – Shellac cover. Holger Czukay – Good Morning Story – Good Morning Story PJ Harvey & John Parish – Rope Bridge Crossing – Dance Hall At Louse Point Tension Pets – On the Outside – Cubey EP – [N]
Coral – Soup n Sandwiches – Pillowtalk – Another one for Bob Schick. RIP. Meiko Kaji – Hamabeno Meruhen – Ginchou Wataridori – Originally Released in 1972. Isaac Turner – The Fortune Station – Grand Prairie – [N] Tangled Shoelaces – Sleeping – Turn My Dial – M Squared Recordings and more, 1981-84 Photo-Curio – We All Know – Demos Superchunk – As In A Blender – 45 – [N] – Alastair Galbraith cover. Daniel Bachman – Coronach – Axacan
MEMORIALS – Cut It Like a Diamond – Memorial Waterslides – [N] – Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire). Album out in October! Dadadi – Jigi Jigi – Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds In the Diaspora (1980-93) – [C] Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin – en / två / tre / fyra – Ghosted II – [N] Lump Hammer – Party Time – S/T – [R] Prince Far I – Survival Version – Spear of the Nation Nolan Potter – Preeminent Minds – Music Is Dead Newtown Neurotics – Kick Out The Tories – 45
The Bismarck – Rights Refused – Constant Currency SAULT – ACTS OF FAITH – ACTS OF FAITH – [N] – Surprise 11th album. Hot Tubs Time Machine – No Thanks Google Maps – 50 Shades of Marcus / No Thanks Google Maps Chris Corsano – I Don’t Have Missions – The Key (Became the Important Thing [and Then Just Faded Away]) – [N] Akiko Yano – Onnatachiyo Otokotachiyo – Ai Ga Nakucha Ne – First released in 1982. Backed by the band Japan. The Bug Club – Lonsdale Slipons – On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System – [N]
Power Supply – The Land of Fire – In the Time of the Sabre-Toothed Tiger Gerycz / Powers / Rolin – Lamplighter – Lamplighter Mats Gustafsson & Joachim Nordwall – BIRDBRAIN (olle ångest) – THEIR POWER REACHED ACROSS SPACE AND TIME-TO DEFY THEM WAS DEATH-OR WORSE
R. Ring – Cartoon Heart / Build Me a Question – [N] – War Poems, We Rested – Kelley Deal + Mike Montgomery. Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Roy Ayers– 2000 Blacks Got To Be Free – Upside Down / Music of Many Colours – Originally released in 1980. CAN – Aston 77 Drei – LIVE IN ASTON 1977 – [N] – First release in the CAN LIVE series to feature bassist Rosko Gee. RVG – The Baby & the Bottle – Feral Maximum Joy – Dancing on my Boomerang – Station M.X.J.Y. – Reissue of a 1982 Y Records release. Black Artist Group – For Peace and Liberty Pt. 6 – For Peace And Liberty, In Paris Dec 1972 – First official record in…five decades! Arcwelder – Lafayette – Continue – [N] – “New Arcwelder album!” is something we haven’t been able to say in 25 years.
Crumbs – 4291 – You’re Just Jealous – [N] Mdou Moctar – Oh France – Funeral for Justice Danny Paul Grody Duo – Coyote Valley at Dusk – Arc of Night – [N] Acid Mothers Reynols – Lemurian Tsunami Inside a Hat – Vol. 3 Purple Ivy Shadows – Dancefloor’s Shiny Under Junky (Alternate Funhouse Take) – Dancefloor’s Shiny Under Junky (Alternate Funhouse Take) – Recorded in 1995, featuring the Small Factory rhythm section. Previously unreleased! Ana Frango Elétrico – Saudade – Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro – [C] – [R] Shellac – Scrappers – To All Trains – [N]
Blues Ambush – Horse Noises – S/T – Local. DJ Pup – Good Luck, Babe (“Ambient Stretch” Edit) – .mp3 – Chappell Roan stretched into ambient space, as aired on DJ Pup’s Flat Circle Radio Hour program 6/16/24. Excerpt.
James Chance & the Contortions – Dish It Out – No New York – [C] – A trio of songs for people we lost recently… Chuck D as Mistachuck – The Amazing Willie Mays (feat. Nabaté Isles) – We Wreck Stadiums Ass Ponys – Donald Sutherland – Lohio
The Lame Drivers – Spring – Become an Island – [N] Etran de L’AÏr – Ighre Massina – 100% Sahara Guitar – New album just announced coming in September, playing Johnny Brenda’s on Thursday night! FYEAR – Pts I -> VII – S/T – [N] Jake McKelvie – Pump Fake – A New Kind of Hat BASIC – New Auspiscious – New Auspiscious – [N] – Chris Forsyth, Nick Millevoi and Mikel Patrick Avery. Girma Beyene & Akalé Wubé – Mèlèwètesh Menèw – Ethiopiques 30 – Mistakes on Purpose Pissed Jeans – Seatbelt Alarm Silencer – Half Divorced – [N]
Writhing Squares – LEM – Mythology – [N] Oumou Sangaré – Kounkoun – Mogoya – [R] Aseethe – The Cost – The Cost – [N] Charif Megarbane – Stella Marina – Habibi Funk Limited 002: Hamra / Red Action Painting! – Just Who Are The Cockleshell Heroes? – Under The Bridge 2 – [C]
The Safe Distance – All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit – CHRIMBO WITH YOU – [C] – Half Man Half Biscuit cover. We’re under six months until December 24th… Mark Martucci – How To Shake The Bells – Arbor Christmas: Volume 24 – [C]
Osees – Cassius, Brutus & Judas – SORCS 80 – [N] – Out August 9th. Steve Beresford – Cicada – Dancing The Line – Originally released in 1985. Inspired by the fashion of Anne Marie Beretta. SUMAC – The Stone’s Turn – The Healer – [N] Mesmer – Ocean – Ocean – Local, with a video some are calling “too hot for Reddit.” Paul Lytton, Joe McPhee & Ken Vandermark – One – Prime Numbers – Recorded by Malachi Ritscher at the 7th Annual Empty Bottle Festival of Jazz & Improvised Music, Friday, April 25, 2003. Neil Young – Lookout Joe – Tonight’s The Night MEMORIALS – Acceptable Experience (Radio Edit) – Acceptable Experience – [N] – Verity Susman and Matthew Simms (previously of Electrelane and Wire).
The Jesus Lizard – Hide & Seek – Rack – [N] – Coming in September. How are we feeling about this one? Hamid El Shaeri – Yefkini Nesma’sotak – Habibi Funk 018: The SLAM! Years (1983 – 1988) The Fall – Slates, Slags Etc – Slates (Live) EP – [N] The Bret Tobias Set – Fait Accompli – Fait Accompli – Local. Tuluum Shimmering – The Soft Plume Moves with the Breath of the New Day, and the Ray of the Sun Touches it with Colour – The Mountains are Singing and the Roses are Singing Pedro The Lion – Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz – [N] Circus Lupus – Deviant Gesture Catalog – 1990 9 Song Demo
Mary Timony – Untame The Tiger – Untame The Tiger – [N] Baroque Jazz Trio – Delhi Daily – Pierre Barouh and the Saravah Sounds – [C] – First released in 1970.
Babe Report – Turtle of Reaper – Did You Get Better – [N] – Members of FCKR Jr., Geronimo! and Yeesh. Fela Anikulapo Kuti + Egypt 80 – M.O.P (Movement of the People) Political Statement Number 1 – Live in Amsterdam – Recorded in 1983. Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nathan Salsburg & Tyler Trotter – Hear The Children Sing – Hear The Children Sing The Evidence – [N] – Lungfish cover. Rhys Chatham – A Crimson Grail Part 2 – A Crimson Grail (For 400 Electric Guitars Jetstream Pony – Look Alive! – Under the Bridge 2 – [C] Camino Sound – Stacks – Corridor – [N] – Local. Neutrals – Substitute Teacher – New Town Dream
Swansea Sound – Je Ne Sais Quoi – Live at the Rum Puncheon – Playing Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia on Sunday. Rogér Fakhr – Had To See Harry – Habibi Funk 025: East of Any Place – 1970s studio tracks from this Lebanese musician that didn’t make it into “Fine Anyway.” FETID – Coalescing Decay – Sentient Pile of Amorphous Rot – [R] Stephen Malkmus – The Greatest Own in Legal History – Traditional Techniques Alkibar Jr. – Tamala – La Paix Helen Money – Brave One – Atomic The Monorchid – Alias Directory – Who Put Out the Fire?
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